9078, <Alpinie rufa (Fresl.) Schum, Small tufts or more © 
or less scattering, in jungles of grasses mesar borders of dense , 
woods at Sou meters; stews 1 meter high, the thickness of an, S 
ordinary “lead pencil; green, pubescent, suberect, leaflet vert OCA 
ing from near the ground slthough the basal ones sre seattering 
and much reduced; leaves flat, ascending, thin and soft membrae- 
nous, dark green, slightly paler beneath, resembling broad lesfed 
a graee; bracts of inflorescence dirty chaff colored; flowers 
erect, pale white; globose fruits of a pleasing deep red, erect, 
not more than 1/2 inch in diameter, reminding one# very much 
of "“gooseberries", the shell (?%}) thin and rather fragile; biack 
seede gurrounded by white dried up meat, it was in flower, 
green fruite and mature red onea in the same short panicle @ 
The prettiest fe ever eens Lucban, May, 1907, 
—u7?, Alpinia philippinensis Kidl, Small tufts of 1, 
3 to 5 stems in damp woode at 800 meters; stems terete, green, 
lL to ¢ meters long; leaves membranous, velvety to touch, the 
lowermost scattering and much reduced; edges double wavy; in- 
florescence terminal, erect, 1 to 2 feat long, whitish; pradpts 
nearly snow white, calyx paler as is also the corolla except 
the inner lower one which is yellowish tioped and ite inner 
surface dark purple; Lueban, May, 1907, 
9U8C, Alpinia brevilabris Preel,. Loose tufts in rich 
fertile well drained soil of the woods at 600 métere; stems 
subineclined, terete, smooth, hard, green, 1/2 inch thick or 
less; leaves, submembranous, agcending, nearly flat, smaller 
and closer set toward the apex, the basal few seattering and 
‘much reduced; darker above; inflorescence terminal, 1 to 2 
feet long, greenish white, few ,orsanened; ovaries green; calyx 
rugose, pale white, with thin greenish recurved segments; pee 
tal reddish streaked; back of the anthers green; Lucban, 
HAY » 1907; 
gusl. Pandanus muricatus lm, Lom, y¥ 
(io description) 
guB2, Fandanus martellii Slm, Trees 9 meters high «a 
| Uguslly solitary although sometimes in groupe of 2 or 3 trees; 
| gtems straight, clean, smooth and hard, gray; prop roots 2 
meters high; stems above ,the prog reots 4 inches thick, 6 to 
7? inches thick 2/3 way uppranches few, ascending, very thick 
(comparatively) cuite short and approximate; leaves very close- 
ly set, arranged in g@pirally twisted rows, sharply serrate on the 
edges, dull green above, conspicuously glaucous green or akaxe 
Olive colored beneath, ascending,the tips soon becoming deflex 
*é3, 2 to 5 inches wide, 5 to 7 feet long; fruitfelueters upon 
1 foot long 1 inch thick triangular recurved peduncle; heads 
& to 7, descending, the terminal ones ripening first; drupes 
yellowish red, odorless, Lucban, Kay, 1907. 
9083. Pandanus martellii “lw., n, sp. Slender erect 
trees on ridges of damp woods at 1,600 feet; trees 8 meters 
high, its erect pale like steme 6 inches in diameter and covere,) 

