226 CXLIX. SCITAMINEZ. (J. G. Baker.) [ Hedychium, 
Throughout India from the HIMALAYAS to CEYLON and MALACCA, ascending to 
4000 ft. in the Khasia Hills, and 6000 ft. in Ceylon.—DrsTR15.— Malay Islands. | 
Rootstock 1 in. thick. Stem 4-6 ft. Leares often above a foot by 3-5 in, 
usually pubescent beneath. Spike 1-1 ft. ; outer bracts 13-2 by 1 in., at first green, 
brown in age. Caly green, cylindric, shorter than the bract. Flowers fragrant, 
in the type pure white or tinged with yellow. —Corolla-tube 3 in. ; segments linear, 
reflexing, half as long as the tube; lateral staminodes 13-2 in. by about 5 10.5 lip 
14-2 in. broad, narrowed suddenly to a short claw, short lobes rounded ; filament 
red; anther about A in. Capsule oblong, glabrous, orange inside. Seeds with a 
crimson aril. 
Var. H. CHRYSOLEUCUM, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4516 (sp.); lip white with a large 
yellow patch in the centre. Lindl. & Post, Fl. Gard. 1.110, t. 77. 
Var. H. MAXIMUM, Rosc. Scit. Pl. t. 52 (sp.); leafy stem taller than in the types 
flowers pure white larger, staminodes $—1 in. broad, lip 2-24 in. broad. Lindl. ia 
Bot, Reg. t. 1022; Horan. Prodr. 24. 
Var. H. FLAVESCENS, Carey in Rosc. Scit. Pl. t. 50 (sp.); stature of the i 
flowers sulphur yellow. Wight Ic. t. 2008-9; H. flavum, Bot. Mag. t. 2378 (not o 
t. 3039). H. sulphureum, Wail. mss. 
Var. H. vRoPHYLLUM, Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 1785 (sp.); stature of the type 
flowers bright yellow. Horan. Prodr. 24. 
Var. H. Step, Roxb. Hort. Beng.1; Fl. Ind.i. 19 (sp); dwarfer than sto 
type, flowers smaller bright yellow. Rose. Scit. PL. t. 49 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3039 ; Lodd. 24. 
Cat t. 604; Wall. Cat. 6542 ; Kew Journ. Bot. v. (1853), 326; Horan. Prodr 25. 
2. H. Elwesii, Baker; leaves oblong nearly glabrous beneath, spiko 
dense-fld, bracts large oblong 4-5-fld., calyx shorter than the bract, 
flowers bright yellow, staminodes lip linear, broad shallowly bifid, stamen 
as long as the lip. i 
KuasrA HILLS ; Bishop’s fall, near Shillong, alt. 4000 ft., Elwes. alis 
Leaves 1 ft. or more, by 3 in. Spike } ft. ; bracts green, subcoriacéous, 2-2; ^ 
rather diverging, not so closely imbricate as in H. coronarium. Corolla-tube 23 KN 
segments above 1 in.; staminodes resembling the segments in size and shape; : 
1 in. broad, narrowed suddenly to a broad claw ; filament bright red ; anther line 
3 in.—May be an extreme form of H. coronarium. 
3. H. marginatum, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 75, t a 
leaves oblong-lanceolate very hairy beneath, spike short dense-fld., bra 
oblong imbrieated 1-fld., flowers yellow, staminodes linear, lip un 
cuneate distinctly clawed shallowly bifid, stamen rather longer than 
lp. 
Naca HILLS; Kohima, alt. 4500 ft. Clarke ; Griffith (5680), without locality, o 
Leaves 1 ft. by 13-2 in., pale beneath. Spike 3-4 in.; bracts 13-2 1n» P hairs 
firm as in H. coronarium, glabrous, with a pale horny margin and a tuft of io 
at the tip. Coins lin. Corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx; segments ] m 
: e ` 
staminodes resembling the corolla-segments in size and shape; lip 1 in. long; em 
long, blade 1-3 in. broad. 
4. H. venustum, Wight Ic. t. 2019; leaves oblong-lanceolate near 
glabrous beneath, spike lax-fld. often cernuous, bracts small 1-fld., flore ; 
whitish, calyx exceeding the bract, staminodes linear, lip narrow n 
deeply bifid distinctly clawed, stamen shorter than the lip. Wall. ™ 
Journ. Bot. v. (1852), 328. H. cernuum, Wight Ic. t. 2011. 
Ninouini HILLS, Wight. 
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Leaves 1 ft. by 3-4 in., obscurely pubescent beneath. Spike 6-9 in» eer 
