THE SCITAMINE.ZE OF THE PHILIPPINES. 
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cm long, rather slender above. Inflorescence of two or three 9 to 12 cm 
long branches on a peduncle about 15 cm long, yellowish- or grayish- 
hairy when young, becoming subglabrous. Bracts 1 to 2 cm long, lan- 
ceolate, obtuse. Flower spikes remote, 4 to 6 on a branch, the outer 
bracts lanceolate, 1 cm long, glabrous. Peduncle short, at first erect, 
afterwards decurved, pubescent. Calyx 3-lobed, lanceolate, acuminate, 
tip blunt, pubescent. Corolla white, longer, segments ligulate. Stam- 
inodes obovate, petaloid, obliquely truncate, a little longer, spotted. 
Cucullus short, rigid. Capsule 8 mm, roundly triangular, apex truncate, 
3-eelled, 3-seeded, the seeds angled, truncate, with a thin aril. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer 91J/7, 7 611. 
3. M. congestum sp. nov. 
About 1 m tall, tufted. Leaves thin, lanceolate, acuminate, cuspidate, 
base cuneate, glabrous on the upper surface, hairy beneath, 30 cm long, 
6 cm wide; petiole slender above, 55 cm long including the sheathing 
portion, pubescent. Inflorescence extruded at two-thirds the distance 
from the base, a dense head of small spikes about 2 cm in diameter. 
Peduncles 1 cm long, slender, angled. Bracts lanceolate, hairy, with a 
tuft of long hairs at the tip. Inner bracts short, oblong, obtuse. Sepals 
oblong-lanceolate, blunt, ciliate at the tip, half as long as the corolla-tube. 
Corolla-tube cylindric, the lobes as long, linear-oblong, obtuse. Lip 
obovate, clawed, the limb oblong-obovate, rounded, entire, with a rather 
large, semiovate, transverse ridge. Cucullus subspathulate, side lobe 
decurved, blunt, spotted. Stamen spathulate, the apex dilated into two 
wings. Style thick, the apex bent an angle and with a thick process at 
the bend. 
Luzon, Provinces of Laguna-Tayabas. from Paete to Piapi, For. Bur. 951(8 
Curran. 
Easily distinguished by its inflorescence, and allied to a Bornean species. 
MARANTA Linn. 
Maranta arundinacea Linn., the arrow-root, is cultivated in the Philippines, 
being locally known as Arourou. 
CANNACE2E. 
20. CANNA Linn. 
Rhizome perennial. Stems simple, leafy. Leaves large, ovate or 
lanceolate, acute. Raceme terminal, simple or branched. Bracts small, 
ovate. Flowers in pairs. Sepals three, lanceolate to oblong. Corolla- 
tube cylindric, short, the lobes 3, equal, lanceolate. Staminal-tube 
cylindric, short, the segments petaloid, unequal, a one-celled anther 
attached to one lobe. Ovary 3-celled, many-ovuled. Style adnate at the 
