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* Ovary 1-celled ; placentas 3, parietal. 
l Mast, Scape leafless; corolla-tube long; lateral staminodes 
filiform or spathulate, in the middle of the elongate filament, opposite, 
spreading. . 
2. GLOBBA. Stem leafy; corolla-tube long; lateral staminodes petal- 
like; filament slender. . 
3. Hemrorcuis. Corolla-tube short; lateral staminodes petal.like; 
filament short. 
** Ovary 3-celled ; placentas axile. 
T Lateral staminodes broad. 
§ Connective spurred at the base. l 
4. Roscoza, Flowering stem leafy ; bracts 1-fld. ; filament long ; capsule 
subdehiscent.—F lowers purple or white. 
5. CAUTLEYA. Flowering stem leafy; bracts l-fld.; filament long; 
capsule dehiscent with recurved valves.—Flowers yellow. lat eral.fd 
6. Curcuma. iz m leafy or not; bracts cucullate, several-ld., 
orming a cone like oka tenon petaloid ; capsule subdehiscent. 
H Connective very broad or crested, not spurred. 
7. GAsrROCHILUS. Flowering stem short or erect; filament short; 
connective broad not crested. hort: 
8. KEMPFERIA. Flowering stem leafy or not; filament very short; 
connective crested, :cate : 
` 9. Hrronenta, Flowering stem leafy; filament long, complicate; 
“onnective broad not crested.— Inflor. as in Curcuma. 
§§§ Connective very narrow, neither spurred nor crested. , 
10. Hepycarum. Flowering stem leafy ; filament long, slen mh " 
tt Lateral staminodes small or 0, rarely narrow and adnate to the lip. 
§ Flowers in a dense-fld. cone-like spike. 
: hort; 
ll. Amomum. Flowering scapes usually leafless; filament s ` 
vim cells diverging above; connective dilated crested or 2-lobed, rarely 
mple, 
12. ZINGIRER. Spikes terminating leafy stems or leafless scapes; 
flament short, anther-cells porallel, connective usually produced into a 
0ng appendage. ü , 
13. Costus. Spikes terminating leafy stems or leafless scapes; Damen 
Petaloig, anther adnate to its middle, cells parallel. 
IS Flowers in lar-fld. spikes or panicles. 
baé Cyrnostiema. Scape leafless, panicle loosely flowering from the 
8e Upwards ; filament short, connective with a 3-lobed Sp? the base 
15, ELerrarra S leafl anicle loosely flowering from the 
*pwards ; filament very short ; anther.cells parallel, connective eli fle 
hone ` Exerrarrorsis, Scape leafless; spike simple; bracts small ; fa- 
H short, anther petaloid. 
hater Scarnocntamys, Scape leafless; spike simple; bracts large, per- 
; filament short, connective petaloid. 
