Alpinia.] OXLIX. SCITAMINEE. (J. G. Baker.) 257 
Perak, alt. 2-3000 ft., King's Collector, —DISTRIB. Java. 
Leafy stem 6-8 ft. Leaves above 1 ft., 24-3 in. broad, very scabrous. Panicle 
1ft., erect, with a few short spreading compound branches at the base; branchlets 
about 1 in., bearing several pedicelled waxy white flowers; bracts minute. Calyæ 
1 in.; teeth minute.  Corolla-tube as long as the calyx ; segments oblong, à in. 
Lip not longer than the corolla-segments. Anther-cells divaricate upwards, the 
truncate connective scarcely overtopping them. Capsule globose, $ in. diam. 
, Subgen.IV. Geostachys, Baker. Anther not crested. Buds enclosed 
in large bracteoles. Spike radical. 
16. A.? decurvata, Baker; leaves lanceolate, racemes not secund. 
Perak; Larut, alt. 3-4000 ft., King’s Collector. 
Leafy stem 4-5 ft. Leaves 12-15 by 1-11 in., narrowed to a petiole 1 in. long. 
emes 6 in., lax, decurved ; peduncle short, slender, erect, hidden by the large 
imbricate green bract-leaves; pedicels deflexed, } in.; bracteoles 1} in., green, 
M long-navicular, acute, persistent, Ovary oblong, shortly peduncled within the 
peole. Calyx zin., spathaceous. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx ; segments 
bent oblong, 2 in. Lip obovate, longer than the corolla-segments. ‘ Flowers 
night yellow, tinged with red. Fruit glossy, dark red.” 
17. A. ? secunda, Baker; leaves oblong-lanceolate, racemes secund. 
Ps RAK, alt. 3-4000 ft., King’s Collector, 8047. . . 
early allied to A. ? deeurvata, with which it entirely agrees in habit and in the 
ower eng enclosed in large persistent oblong-navicular green bracteoles. Leaves 
cemu 2 in. ; petiole short. Raceme simple, lax-fld., secund, deflexed ; pedicels 
ligh ous, 3 in.; bracteoles under 1 in. Calyx cylindric, spathaceous, 3 in. Flower 
ght yellow. Fruit deep red.” 
19. RHYNCHANTHWS, Hook. f. 
beier tuberous; fibres stout, hairy. Stem leafy. Leaves oblong- 
tabe ] ato, Bp tke terminal. Calyx cylindric, minutely toothed. Corol n 
tania" subcylindrie ; segments ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Latera 
incurver “ obsolete ; lip nearly obsolete; filament long linear, margins 
Ze vv» tip filiform; anther-cells contigüous, not crested. Ovary 
* ovules many, superposed ; style filiform; stigma small, turbinate. 
Psule and seeds not seen, 
R. longiflorus, Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 6861. 
Burma (Hort. Low). 
Zreck ovoid, green, 1-1} in. diam. Leafy stem 11-2 ft. Leaves 6-8 by 
linear n. Spike 4-6 in., sessile at the end of the stem; bracts 2 to each flower, 
eno] a 1-13 in., wrapped round the calyx-tube. Corolla-tube 13-2 in.; 
m. Stamen as long as the corolla-tube. 
20. CLINOGYNE, Salisb. 
we och tuberous or sublignose. Stems leafy, copiously dichoto- 
terminal rauched, Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate. Panicle lax-fld. 
: . : ; ree. 
Petals ne flowers in pairs; bracts long, narrow, firm. Sepals short f te 
Petaloj arrow, connivent. Staminal tube cylindric; segments obovate, 
ent equal; anther l-celled, adnate to the margin of one 
wat, VAT below to the 
Stamin vary 3-celled; cells l-ovuled; style adnate be: a 
VoL, ^l tube, above free, hooked; stigma capitate. rw" indshiscent, 
