294 CXXXIV. SCITAMINEE (BAKER). | Kampferia. 
TRIBE IV. Museæ.— Perfect stamens 5; anthers 2-celled. 
The only African genus : . : e : . 13. Musa. 
1. KASMPFERIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 641. 
Calyx subcylindrical or funnel-shaped, shortly toothed. Corolla- 
tube cylindrical, exserted from the calyx; lobes equal, lanceolate. 
Lateral staminodia large, petaloid; lip broad, emarginate; fertile 
stamen with 2 diverging cells and a small crest. Ovary 3-celled ; 
ovules many in a cell; style filiform ; stigma peltate, minutely ciliated 
round the edge. Fruit ovoid or oblong, with a membranous pericarp. 
Seeds subglobose, with ashort lacerated aril and straight embryo.—Root 
of many nodose fibres. Leaves few, sessile or arising from a short stem. 
Flowers in a tuft from the centre of the rosette of leaves or in a raceme 
on a short peduncle, often large and brightly coloured. 
Species about 30, mainly in Tropical Asia. 
Flowers usually solitary, on short peduncles. 
Lip obscurely emarginate 
Lip deeply emarginate . 
Flowers many to a stem. 
Calyx funnel-shaped, about 4 in. long. 
Corolla-lobes oblong, 4-2 in. long. 
Flowers usually rose-red . ` 
Flowers dark lilac - : 
Corolla-lobes lanceolate, 14—14 in. long . 
Calyx cylindrical, 15-2 in. long. 
Calyx obliquely truncate at the apex. : . 6. K. brachystemon. 
Calyx distinctly toothed at the apex : - . 7, K. macrosiphon. 
. K. Kirkir. 
. K. ethiopica. 
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. K. rosea. 
. K, Carsoni. 
. K. pleiantha. 
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1. K. Kirkii, Schumann in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 426 (excl. syn.). 
Leaf-stem 3-4 in. long; leaves about 4, crowded at its apex, oblong, 
acute, moderately firm, glabrous, 8-9 in. long, 24-3 in. broad at the 
middle. Flowering stems short, slender, 1-flowered. Calyx funnel- 
shaped, shortly toothed, 4—5 in. long. Corolla-tube rather longer than 
the calyx ; lobes oblong-lanceolate, 1 in. long. Staminodia more than 
twice as long as the corolla-lobes, pale rose-purple; lateral obliquely 
obovate-cuneate, above 1 in. broad; lip rounded at the apex, slightly 
emarginate, 2 in. broad, with a yellow mark at the throat; fertile 
stamen much shorter ; anther 4 in. long, with a small truncate entire 
crest.—Cienkowskia Kirkii, Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5994; Ill. Hort. 
1883, t. 495. 
Nile Land, British East. Africa: Jomvu, near Mombasa, Wakefield, sketch 8! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: coast opposite Zanzibar, Kirk ! 
This is totally different from K: rosea, Schweinf., with which Schumann emm 
Durand have united it, 
2. K. æthiopica, Benth. Gen. Plant. iii. 642. Leafy stem not 
fully developed till after the flowers; leaves 3-5, not crowded at the 
top, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, 9-18 in. long, 1-3 in. broad at the 
