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8. A. lepicarpum Ridl. in Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 2 (1909) 604. 
Stems 3 to 5 m tall, 3 cm in diameter at the bulbous base. Leaves 
about 12 to 14 cm apart, coriaceous, dark-olive-green, polished above, 
paler beneath, linear-oblong, base rounded, apex acute, 60 cm long, 10 
cm wide, quite glabrous; petiole 2 cm long, channeled above, the back 
rounded; ligule 1 cm long, oblong, truncate. Inflorescence radical, on 
a 9 cm long peduncle, with rather distant, lanceolate, bracts. Bracts 
narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, ribbed, glabrous. Bracteoles narrowly 
lanceolate, acuminate, ribbed, 2.5 cm long, 4 mm wide, inner braeteole 
shorter, strongly ribbed, pungent-mucronate, all glabrous. Ovary spar- 
ingly pubescent. Calyx tubular, with three, lanceolate, mucronate- 
pungent lobes, the tube pubescent, 2 cm long. Corolla-tube a little longer, 
hairy, lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, 7 mm long. Lip entire, horizontal, 
linear, gradually dilated at the tip into a rounded, emarginate limb, 1 
cm long, 5 mm wide. Anther linear-oblong, apex retuse, crestless. 
Inflorescence ovoid or subglobose, 8 cm long and about 6 cm thick. Fruit 
globose, reddish, 1.5 cm long, ferruginous-tomentose, with short, erect, 
scattered, warty processes at the tip, the calyx-tube long-persistent. 
Negros, Cuernos Mountains, near Dumaguete, Elmer 100\ \4, in wooded ravines 
on the edge of the river at an altitude of about 830 m. The form of the flowers 
is like that of a Hornstedtia, but the inflorescence, fruit, and bracts that of an 
Amomuv'i. 
Endemic. 
A. lepicarpum var. pubescens Bidl. 1. c. 605. 
Leaves larger and more narrowed to the base, their margins distinctly 
undulate; sheaths and petioles pubescent. Bracts wider. Fruit more 
rufous-tomentose. 
Negros, Cuernos Mountains, near Dumaguete, Elmer 10384, in moist fertile 
soil of dense shrubberies at an altitude of about 1,050 m; it may be a distinct 
species, but is very closely allied to the type. The flowers are in a bad state for 
dissection. 
8. HORNSTEDTIA Retz. 
Tall plants with a stout rhizome. Leaves oblong. Spikes peduncled, 
from the rhizome, subcylindric or obconic. Outer bracts large, usually 
red, ovate to oblong, forming a cup. Bracteoles thin, tubular. Flowers 
numerous, sessile, red. Calyx spathaceous, thin. Corolla-tube long, the 
lobes narrow, connivent. Lip narrow, linear-oblong, often much longer, 
sides at the base erect, curved over the stamen. Staminodes none. 
Stamen thick, short. Anther thick, bent at an jingle with the filament, 
crest small or none. Capsule oblong, with thin cartilaginous walls. 
Seeds numerous, black. 
About 40 known species ranging from India through the Malay Peninsula and 
Archipelago to northern Australia, headquarters in the Malay Peninsula and 
Borneo. I here separate from this genus as laid down in my Materials for a 
Flora of the Malay Peninsula 2 (1907) 34, the genus Nicolaia or Phaeomeria, as 
Schumann does. 
