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have transverse bars at intervals, giving them a reticulated appearance. In the 
above species the transverse bars are sometimes reduced to round pustules bearing 
tufts of silky hairs, so that the sheaths appear spotted with white tufts ; these tufts 
run into transverse lines on the ligule. 
Endemic. 
9. PHAEOMERIA Lindl. 
Tall herbs with lanceolate leaves. Capitula obconic or globose on tall 
peduncles from the rhizome. Outer bracts large, usually spreading, 
involucral. Floral bracts linear-oblong, colored. Bracteoles tubular, 
spathaeeous. Calyx bifid. Corolla erect, lobes lorate. Lip narrow, 
short. Stamen-filament linear. Anther oblong, crestless. Fruits ob- 
conic, the top rounded or flat, half-woody. Seeds numerous. 
Species about 10, Indo-Malayan. 
I. P. imperial is Lindl. Introd. Nat. Hist. ed. 2 (1836) 446. 
Alpinia magnified Rose. Monandr. PI. (1828) t. 75. 
Nicolaia imperialis Horan. Monogr. (1862) 32, t. 1. 
Hornstedtia imperialis Ridl. in Journ. Roy. As. Soc. Str. Branch 32 (1899) 
148; Mat. FI. Malay Penin. 1 (1907) 40. 
Rhizome short and stout. Stems 4 m tall, 3 cm thick. Leaves oblong, 
acute, glabrous, 66 cm long, 18 cm wide ; ligule ovate, blunt, nearly 3 cm 
long. Peduncle 1 m tall. Spikes cone-shaped, 12 cm long. Outer 
bracts ovate-oblong, spreading, 12 cm long, pink. Floral bracts pink- 
edged, white, linear-oblong. Calyx 1 cm long, deeply bifid. Corolla- 
tube 3 cm long, the lobes lorate, thin, obtuse, pink. Lip longer, oblong, 
obtuse, the sides convolute, pink-edged, white. Filament pubescent. 
Anther emarginate. Fruits obconic, green, hairy. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Williams 291^3. 
Malay region; often cultivated and probably only so in the Philippines. 
10. PLAGIOSTACH YS Ridl. 
Stems tall, with lanceolate leaves. Spike or panicle from the side of 
the leafy stalk, on- a short peduncle with sheathing leaves. Flowers 
small, very densely crowded, with oblong-ovate, laciniate bracts. Calyx 
spathaeeous, short. Corolla-tube short and thick, the lobes oblong, 
fleshy. Lip fiat, oblong. Staminodes two, short, subulate processes. 
Stamen short and thick. Anther oblong, emarginate, crestless or crested. 
Capsule ovoid or oblong, crustaceous, 3-celled. Seeds 3 or 4 in each cell. 
Species 5, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
1. P. philippinensis Ridl. in Elm. Leaf!. Philip. Bot. 2 (1909) 572. 
Stems 1 to 2 m tall. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed at the 
base, 20 cm long, 8 cm wide, glabrous on the upper surface, more or 
less pubescent beneath; ligule truncate; sheath hairy; petiole winged 
in adult leaves. Inflorescence lateral, near the base, simple, or 3-branched, 
cone-shaped, 6 cm long, the branches 4 to 6 cm long, the peduncle stout, 
covered with ovate sheaths, the rachis and bracts felted-pubescent. Bracts 
lanceolate, acuminate, woolly. Flowers pale-red. Calyx tubular, bilobed 
