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lured, the central bar thickened. Staminodes connate, forming an 
excavate, rather fleshy, pubescent organ with two thick subulate points 
at the tip, and one on each side below. Stamen-filament extremely short. 
Anther long, oblong, pubescent, the crest oblong, truncate, obscurely 
3-lobed, with four nerves. Stigma very large, triangular, excavate in 
front, hairy. Fruit subglobose, glabrous. 
Bucas Island, (northeast coast of Mindanao), Merrill 5258, dry slopes at 15 
in altitude along the borders of forests. Calyx red, corolla white, fruit reddish- 
yellow. 
A very curious plant, remarkable for the completely connate lower petals, and 
connate staminodes. 
14. ALPINIA Linn. 
Ehizome short or fairly long, aromatic. Stems tall, leafy. Leaves 
lanceolate, shortly petiolate; ligule short. Panicles terminal, the flowers 
numerous, often showy. Bracts caducous, often petaloid. Calyx-tube 
short, tubular. Corolla-tube thick, little longer, the lobes linear or oblong. 
Lip large, convolute, or small, narrow, lobed or entire. Staminodes broad 
and spathulate or reduced to narrow subulate processes or absent. 
Stamen-filament thick. Anther broad, the crest usually absent. Fruit 
globose or cylindric, yellow to black. Seeds numerous, angled, black, 
inclosed in a sweet aril. 
Species about 60, Indo-Malayan, Siamese, Chinese and Australian. 
§ Catimbium. Flowers large, the lip entire or subentire, convolute. 
Leaves slightly pubescent; staminodes short, oblong. 1. A. Eaenkei 
Leaves densely velvety beneath ; staminodes linear, glabrous.— 2. A. Copelandii 
Leaves tomentose on both sides; staminodes hairy 3. A. trachyascus 
Leaves thickly pubescent beneath; staminodes ovate, hairy 4. A. illustris 
Leaves glabrous. 
Plant 1 to 2 m tall; staminodes two low crests, silky-hairy at the base. 
5. A. glabrescens 
Plant 6 m tall; staminodes linear-oblong, glabrous 6. A. musaefolia 
§ Hellenia. Flowers small, lip clawed, usually bifid, often 4-fid, not convolute; 
panicle lax. 
Panicle large, spreading. 
Corolla pubescent 7. A. pyramidata 
Corolla glabrous 8. A. Gumingii 
Panicle long, dense, pendulous 9. A. penduliflora 
Panicle slender, branches 2 or 3, or short. 
Inflorescence pubescent 10. A. pubiflora 
Inflorescence glabrous. 
Lip fan-shaped, not lobed 11. A. flabellata 
Lip doubly bifid. 
Staminodes bifid 12. A.pulchella 
Staminodes entire. 
Leaves very narrow 13. A. graminea 
Leaves lanceolate. 
Stamen crested 14. A. Foxvoorthyi 
Stamen not crested 15. A. brevilabris 
§ Oligocincinnus. Panicle-branches spiciform 15. A.rufa 
