THE SCIT AMINES OF THE PHILIPPINES. 
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ligule 1 cm long or less. Panicle 15 to 35 cm long. Corolla-tube hardly 
longer than the calyx. Flowers yellow, otherwise as in the species. 
Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Mount Malindang, For. Bur. 457 4 Mearns & 
Hutchinson. Mindoro, Mount Halcon, For. Bur. 4458 Merritt. Camiguin, Babu- 
yanes Islands, Bur. Sci. 4086 Fenix. 
12. A. puichella K. Scluun. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 27 (1899) 276, t. 2, f. E; 
Pllanzenreicli 1. c. 315. 
Globba puichella K. Sebum. FI. Kais.-Wilhelmsl. (1889) 26. 
Stem slender, 2 m tall. Leaves lanceolate, attenuate-acuminate at 
both ends, glabrous, 32 cm long, 6 cm wide; petiole 2.5 cm long; ligule 
truncate, 1 cm long. Panicle elongate, 25 cm long, with one or rarely 
two primary branches, glabrous. Flowers pedicelled, the pedicels 2 mm 
long. Bracts minute. Ovary glabrous. Calyx 5 to 6 mm long, shortly 
toothed. Corolla red, the tube 7 mm long, the lobes 5 mm long, blunt. 
Lip bilobed, the lobes bifid, white, rosy-streaked, 5 mm long. Stamen 6 
mm long, crestless. Staminodes short, bifid. Capsule red, 1.2 cm in 
diameter, 2- or 3-seeded, the seeds 7 mm thick. 
Mindanao, near Taumo, (Warburg) , in Herb. Berol. New Guinea. 
This species differs from Alpinia brevilabris in its much larger capsule, and 
in its “staminodia bicruria”. I have seen no species of Alpinia with lobed stami- 
nodes, and I do not understand Schumann’s figure in the Pflanzenreich. 
13. A. graminea sp. nov. 
Stem 1.5 m tall, slender. Leaves very long and narrow, linear, acumi- 
nate, 30 cm long, 5 to 10 mm wide, glabrous, sessile; ligule lanceolate, 
adnate to the base of the leaf by its back, margins sparingly ciliate. 
Inflorescence very slender, 15 cm long. Flowers pink, in pairs or threes 
on very short, 2 mm long branchlets, glabrous, 2 cm long. Calyx long, 
tubular, above a little dilated, the lobes broad, ovate, rounded, mucro- 
nulate, minutely ciliate, one narrower than the others. Corolla-tube 
barely longer, lobes thin, oblong, obtuse, hooded. Lip deeply bifid, 
shorter than the corolla-lobes, fleshy, the lobes bifid, inner lobule linear, 
truncate, the outer rounded, ovate-oblong. Staminodes as long as the 
claw of the lip, fleshy, terete, subulate. Stamen-filament as long as the 
lip. Anther nearly as long, crestless. 
Negros, Mount Silay, at 600 m altitude, For. Bur. 7267 Everett. 
The flowers resemble those of Alpinia alba Teysm. and still more those of A. 
Cumingii, from which this differs in its narrow leaves and glabrous calyx. 
14. A. Foxworthyi sp. nov. 
Stem 1 m tall, slender. Leaves narrowly linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 
narrowed at the base to a very short petiole, 13 cm long, 1 cm wide, 
glabrous, margins at the apex armed with small brown thorns, the petiole 
5 mm long; ligule small, entire, ovate, glabrous. Peduncle slender, 15 
