190 
RIDLEY. 
cm long or more. Panic-le dense, 7 to 10 cm long, with short, 2-flowered 
branches. Bracts very small, caducous. Calyx short, ampliate, urceolar, 
5 mm long, glabrous, the lobes very short and broadly ovate. Corolla-tube 
a little longer, the upper lobe oblong, hooded, the lateral ones oblong, 
blunt. Lip flabellate, 4-lobed, the claw thick, rather short, the two 
lateral lobes of the limb broad, rounded, the middle one bifid, the lobules 
narrow, triangular-lanceolate, limb strongly nerved. Staminodes short, 
subulate. Anther very short, crested, the crest large, oblong, truncate; 
filament short. 
Palawan, near Iwaliig, Bur. Set. 772 Foxworthy. Flowers white. 
Allied to A. conchigera and to A. rosella Ridl. 
15. A. brevilabris Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1827) 110, t. 17; Sclium. in Pflanzen- 
reich 1 c. 314. 
Stem 2 to 3 m tall. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 18 to 30 cm long, 
3 to 8 cm wide, glabrous, denticulate on the edge near the tip; petiole 
5 mm long; ligule ovate, rounded, entire, minutely white-ciliate at the 
tip; sheath glabrous, striate. Panicle 25 cm long, the peduncle nearly 
the same length, glabrous, branches two, 8 cm long, the terminal portion 
with short branchlets, each with 3 or 4 flowers. Bracts caducous. Calyx 
tubular, 1 cm long, 3-lobed, the lobes ovate, short, glabrous. Corolla- 
tube one-fourth longer than the calyx, the lobes short, broad, oblong- 
ovate, blunt, rounded at the tip. Lip short, broadly and shortly bilobed, 
the lobes bilobed, the lobules oblong, truncate, divaricate. Staminodes 
simple, linear, fleshy, half as long as the filament, which is hardly longer 
than the 1 cm long crestless anther. Fruit globose, glabrous, bright-red, 
5 mm in diameter. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Whitford 58, For. Bur. 6520 Curran, For. Bur. 2203 
Meyer, Elmer 6859, 6853, For. Bur. 1202, 2931 Borden, Merrill 5193: Province of 
Benguet, Elmer 626S : Province of Zambales, Merrill 2073: Province of Tayabas, 
Whitford 655, Gregory 55. Batan, Batanes Islands, Santo Domingo de Basco, 
Bur. Sci. 3580 Fenix. Mindoko, Baco River, McGregor 162, IS 1 /, For. Bur. 5253, 
51)89 Merritt. Masbate, For. Bur. 1703 Clark. Basilan, For. Bur. 3999 Hut- 
chinson. Negkos, Elmer 9501, 9531. 
Alpinia brevilabris seems to be a rather abundant species, as well as widely 
distributed in the Philippines. Most of the collectors give the color of the flowers 
as white with pink veining. 
§ Oligocincinnus. 
16. A. rufa K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 27 (1899) 293; Pflanzenreich 
1. c. 361. 
Hellenia rufa Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1827) 114, t. 21. 
Stems 1.5 m tall, rather slender. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate or lanceo- 
late, rather abruptly cuspidate, sessile, 25 to 30 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide, 
hairy all over with long appressed hairs; ligule oblong, obtuse, densely 
