Amomum.] CXLIX. SCITAMINER. (J. G. Baker.) 243 
1847, t. 52; leaves oblong, spike dense-fld. globose lip orbicular twice as 
long as-the corolla-segments. Cenolophon vitellinum, Horan. Prodr. 36. 
Czyton ? Hort. Chiswick. 
Leafy stem slender, 2 ft. Leaves 6-8 by 3-4 in., bright green, glabrous. Spike 
small, shortly peduncled; bracts green, oblong, } in. Calyx and corolla-tube about 
as long as the bract ; corolla-segments linear-oblong, as long as the tube. Lip 1 in., 
base spurred, bright yellow, with red veins, Anthers with a large trifid crest ; cells 
glabrous, tips diverging. 
„8. A. macrostephanum, Baker; leaves lanceolate base cordate, 
spike elongate, bracts deciduous, lip obovate-cuneate much longer than the 
corolla-seg ments. 
PERAK ; alt. 500-1000 ft., King’s Collector. 
DIN stem very slender, 4-8 ft. Leaves 1-1} ft. by 2-3 in. thin, glabrous, 
mandate, narrowed from the middle to the cordate base. Spike 3-4 in.; peduncle 
ong, erect, enveloped in the sheath of the topmost leaf; bracts caducous. Ovary 
eusely villous, Cady loosely tubular, 4 in. Corolla-tube rather longer than the 
YX; segments linear-oblong. Lip lin. Filament half as long; anther glabrous ; 
crest large, leafy, crisped, lacerate. 
12. ZINGIBER, Adans. 
la Rootstock horizontal, tuberous. Leafy stem elongated. Leaves oblong- 
neeolate, clas ing the stem by their long sheaths. Spikes usually 
radical, rarely lateral or terminal on the leafy stem; peduncle short 
"e bracts persistent, usually single-fld. Calyx cylindric, shortly 3- 
stami Corolla-tube cylindric ; segments lanceolate, upper concave. Lateral 
te "nodes 0 or adnate to the obovate-cuneate lip; filament short; anther- 
ovul contiguous, crest narrow, as long as the cells. Ovary 3-celled ; 
Ca mal many, superposed; style filiform; stigma small, subglobose. 
20, Ty e oblong, finally dehiscing. Seeds large, globose, arillate.—Species 
' Topies of Old World. 
Sect. T. or ; direct from the 
|^ Cryptanthium, Horan. Spikes produced direct iro 
"stock, very short and dense; peduncle very short.—(Sp. 1-11.) 
* 
Leaves more o» less pubescent beneath. 
ch chrysanthum, Rose. Scit. Pl. t. 86; leaves pubescent be- 
tegme bracts reen outer ovate inner lanceolate with a hairy cusp, corolla- 
late e bright red, lip bright yellow deeply 3-lobed, midlobe orbicular, 
ey ovate. Horan, Prodr. 97. Z. ligulatam, Wall. Cat. 6566, non 
TR . 
Assay CAL HIMALAYA, from Kumaon, ascending to 5500 ft., to SIKKIM and 
gl Leafy stem 6-8 ft. Leaves 12 by 2-3 in., oblong-lanceolate. Spike very denie, 
tube 113 ` long ; peduncle very short; inner bracts 13-2 in. broad. Corolla- 
n 
7 Se i , i in., unspotted; basal auricles 
Species, hone iis lanceolate. Lip 1 imo wa shorter than the 
ped to the top in 
54, is probably a 
WE ; 
li of any Species, hence the lip is as broad as long. Stamen 
a white. pid oblong. Seeds brown, nearly as large as a pea, wrap 
form of this enous aril.—Z. rLAvESCENS, Link.; Dietr. Kp. i. 
» Dut the description is very incomplete. 
„2, 
^ d rubens, Roxb. in Asiat. Res. xi. 348; Hort. Beng. 1; 
> "fo pubescent beneath, bracts bright red outer ova 
R 2 
Fl. Ind. 
te inner 
