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culis circiter 10 cm longis, floribus parvis, vix 1 cm longis, 
glabris, bracteis vix 1 mm longis, labellum bis bifidum. 
A slender, glabrous, perennial plant up to 90 cm in height, 
the stems, including the sheaths, less than 5 mm in diameter. 
Leaves 5 to 8 on each plant, chartaceous, lanceolate, up to 13 
cm long, 1.6 cm wide, the apex slenderly acuminate, base acute; 
sheaths loose ; ligule obtuse, about 3 mm long. Panicles slightly 
exserted, glabrous, about 10 cm long, the basal branch up to 3 
cm long, the others much shorter. Flowers rather numerous, 
white and flesh-colored, the bracts about 1 mm long, caducous. 
Ovary quite glabrous, globose, the calyx-tube above the ovary 
cylindric, 5 mm long. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx, the 
lobes elliptic, rounded, about 5 mm long. Lip 3 mm long, twice 
bifid, the central cleft extending nearly to the base, the lateral 
ones much shorter, the outer lobes 1.2 mm wide, the inner ones 
0.4 mm wide, all obtuse. Stamen about 5 mm long, the anther 
2.5 mm long, connective not produced. 
Leyte, Dagami, in forests, altitude 500 meters, C. A. Wenzel 623, 
March 11, 1914. 
A species closely allied to Alpinia brevilabris Presl, differing in its 
smaller flowers, glabrous ovary, and much smaller panicles and leaves. 
FAGACEAE 
CASTANOPSIS Spach 
CASTANOPSIS GLABRA sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra; foliis lanceolatis 
ad oblongo-lanceolatis, subcoriaceis, usque ad 14 cm longis, in- 
tegris, utrinque angustatis, basi acutis, apice longe late acu- 
minatis, in siccitate pallidis, utrinque valde nitidis, nervis 
utrinque circiter 10, subtus prominentibus, reticulis tenuibus, 
obscuris; inflorescentiis axillaribus, spiciformis, 15 ad 20 cm 
longis, pubescentibus ; fructibus junioribus obovoideis, dense 
cinereo-pubescentibus. 
A tree about 7 m high, quite glabrous except the inflorescence. 
Branches dark reddish-brown, terete, rather slender, even the 
ultimate branchlets quite glabrous. Leaves lanceolate to ob- 
long-lanceolate, 10 to 14 cm long, 2.5 to 4 cm wide, entire, 
subequally narrowed to the acute base and to the rather long- 
acuminate apex, the acumen rather broad, blunt, prominently 
shining on both surfaces, the upper pale or pale-greenish, the 
lower much paler than the upper; lateral nerves about 10 on 
each side of the midrib, prominent on the lower surface, curved- 
ascending, obscurely anastomosing, the reticulations obscure; 
