Hedychium.] CXLIX. SCITAMINEX. (J. G. Baker.) 227 
or erect ; bract thin, at most 1 in., glabrous, rolled round the calyx. Calyx 14 in. 
Corolla-tube 2 in.; segments 11 in.; staminodes as long as the corolla- 
segments; lip rather longer than the staminodes, cut down below the middle into 
two acute segments ; anther linear. Capsule subglobose, pubescent. 
* Leaves quite glabrous beneath. 
5. H. spicatum, Hamilt. ex Smith in Rees Cyclop. xvii. No. 3; 
leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, spike dense-fid., bracts large oblong 
l-fd., calyx shorter than the bract, flowers white, staminodes lanceolate, 
p cuneate deeply bifid, stamen rather shorter than the lip. Rose. Scit. Pl, 
48; Hook. Exot. Flora, t. 46; Bot. Mag. t. 2300; Royle IUl. 357; Wall. 
Cat. 6553; in Kew Journ. v. (1853), 3828; Horan. Prodr. 24. 
SUBTROPICAL Himataya; Nepan, Wallich. KUMAON, alt. 5000-7000 ft., 
Royle, Strachey § Winterbottom. . 
, eaves reaching 1 ft. or more, very variable in breadth, glabrous. Spike some- 
times 1 ft.; bracts oblong, obtuse, green, 1-1} in. by $ in. broad, flowers ascending 
and closely imbricate in the type. Corolla-tube 2-24 in.; segments 1 in., linear; 
gie l in., lanceolate; lip 1—3 in. broad, not at all clawed, lobes 2 rounded; 
ament pale red ; anther linear, 4-Lin. Capsule glabrous, globose. 
Var. TRILOBUM, Wall, in Kew Journ. v. (1853) 328; spike laxer, bracts narrower 
cavolate round the calyx, corolla-segments staminodes and lip longer, the latter 
"at, we tooth between the two lobes. H. trilobum, Wall. Cat. 6554.—Nepal, 
Var. ACUMINATUM, Wall. in Kew Journ. l. c.; leaves glabrous beneath, spike 
nh. and flowers fewer, bracts convolute round the calyx, flowers white or 
t © yellow, tube, corolla-segments staminodes and clawed lip longer than in the 
Ye, stamen about half as long as the lip. H. acuminatum, Rosc. Scit. Pl. t. 47 ; 
béi t. 2969; Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 1795.—Kumaon to Sikkim, ascending to 
i; Var, KHASIANUM, Clarke; like the last, but leaves pubescent beneath.—Khasia 
ills, Clarke, ? , 
H. flavescens, Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 723 (not of Carey) and H., Sieboldii, Wall. in 
Flow Qu V. 371 (H. flavescens, Lindl. in Hort. Soc. Journ. vii. 281, & Paxt. 
Probabl ard. ni. 164, tig. 311, H. Roxburghii, Siebold in Hort. Soc. Journ. l. c.) are 
H y varieties of this Species. . 
ee cornutum, Wall. mss., is a monstrous form, with two stamens, each with a 
erect spur at the base of the anther. 
as H. densiflorum, Wall, Cat, 6552 ; Kew Journ. (1853) v. 368 ; leaves 
mp, P Pike long moderately dense-fld., bracts small oblong 1-fld., calyx 
"wal than the bract, flowers small bright yellow, staminodes lanceolate, 
p, orate deeply bifid, stamen as long as the lip. Horan. Prodr. 25. 
EM D 
Colectores J HTIMALAYA 5 Nepat, Wallich ; SIKKIM, alt. 6000-8000 ft. Griffiths 
bra wr 1 ft. by 4-5 in, labrous beneath. Spike sessile, sometimes 1 ft. ; 
(aj long, 271 in., rolled tightly round the calyx. Calyx cylindric, abont 1 in. 
h mde 1-14 in, ; segments linear, reflexing, under 1 in.; staminodes lanoeo- 
fly * lin. ; lip about 1 in., not clawed ; stamen just exceeding the staminodes ; 
» anther linear, 
li (ath; Ji Macrostemium, Horan. Stamen much longer than the 
èr longer in gr Grifithianum). 
: Lip 
l 
in el ipticuma PA or 2-partite, lobes or segments narrow (lip emarg inate 
Q 2 
