604 SCITAMINEjE. 



C. strobilifera, Miq., having a ligule and no petiolar knob, is a Zingiberacea, probably a 

 Renealmia (Alpiuia strobilifera, Pcepp., Endl.). 



§1. Spike compressed-cylindrical: bracts dislichous-imbricate, complicate, convex on the 

 back, rigidly chartaceous. — Spikes bursting from the leaf-sheaths at the summit of a naked 

 stem. {Eucalathea, Kornick.) 



17- O. discolor, Meg.! Glabrous, stout; stem 1-few-leaved at the inflorescence, 

 naked below it ; leaves large, oblong, or oval, blunt, powdery beneath ; spikes axillary, 

 single or geminate at the top of several, fascicled peduncles ; bracts large, roundish-sub- 

 truncate, half as long as the yellow flower ; lower lip obcordate. — Rose. Monandr. t. 43. 

 Jacq. Fragm. t. 69, 70 (inclus. /.63,/. 4, 64./. 3).— Maranta Cachibou, Jacq. {Calathea, 

 Lindl.) : identical with Meyer's specimen and Roscoe's figure. M. Casupo, Jacq. {Phrynium, 

 Hose). M. Casupito, Jacq. {Calathea, Mey.). M. lutea, Lam. (non Jacq.). C. lutea, 

 Mey.—U'-W high; leaves 2»-5' (-1»), spikes 4"-6" long, the latter l£"-2'' broad; bracts 

 about 1£" diam. ; corolla-tube 11", limb 1" loug. — Hab. Dominica !, Imr., uncommon in 

 woods ; Trinidad {Rose.) ; [Guiana !, Venezuela, New Granada]. 



§ 2. Heads peduncled, bursting from a leaf-sheath -. bracts herbaceous, or membranaceous, 

 imbricated all round. (Myrosma, L., Pseudophrynium, Kornick., Thalianthus, Kl.) 



18. C. myrosma, Lindl. Stem puberulous above or glabrescent ; leaves alternate, 

 elliptical-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, pointed : knob short, villous-pubescent ; peduncles 

 nodding from the uppermost leaf-sheath, single or geminate, as long as the ovoid-oblong 

 head ; bracts trapezoid, half as long as the white flower ; lower lip " obovate." — Rose. Mon- 

 andr. t. 39. — Phrynium, Rose. Myrosma cannaefolium, L. — l'-2' high ; leaves 8"-5 , 

 heads 1", inferior bracts 6'" long. — Hab. S. Vincent !, Guild. ; [Guiana !, Brazil !]. 



19. C. Allouya, Lindl. Stem puberulous above or glabrescent, naked, except at the 

 base and summit ; leaves several, fascicled at the origin of the peduncle, obliquely elliptical, 

 pointed -. knob pubescent ; peduncle subereel, single from one of the uppermost leaf-sheaths, 

 longer than the ovoid head ; bracts elliptical, bluntish, more than half as long as the white 

 flower, lowest larger, elliptical-roundish; lower lip "deeply 2-fid." — Jacq. Fragm. t. ?*• 

 Rose. Monandr. t. 38. Desc. Fl. t. 26.— Maranta, Jacq. Phrynium, Rose— Tubers 

 " globose, stipitate ;" stem 2'-3', leaves 2-6" long : petioles as long as the blade ; pedun- 

 cles 3", heads li"-2", inferior bracts 1", flowers about H" long.— Hab. Dominica!, 

 Imr., S. Vincent !, Guild. ; [Haiti to Guiana]. 



§ 3. Scape terminated by a dense head: bracts herbaceous, imbricated all round. 



20. C. comosa, Lindl. "Glabrous; scape terminated by a subglobose head; leaves 

 large, elliptical, long-petioled ; bracts oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, inferior recurved, equal- 

 ling the corolla-tube; flowers yellow; lower lip 2-lobed." — Rose. Monandr. t. 35. — Ma- 

 ranta, L. Phrynium, Rose. — " 3' high ; leaves 2' long ; head 4" diam. ; bracts H" long ; 

 corolla-limb half as long as the tube."— Hab. Triuidad {Rose.) ; [Guiana]. 



6. ISCHNOSIPHON, Kornick. 



(Calathea, Pcepp., Endl., non Miq.) 



Character of Calathea, but anther nearly free (except at the oblique base), 2 ovary-cells 

 sterile, the third 1-ovulate, and capsule " dehiscent at the summit." — Leaves of the "V\ est 

 Indian species with a curved midrib at the oblique apex : petiolar knob cylindrical ; spikes 

 slender : flowers involute by rigid chartaceous bracts and several bractlets. 



21. X. Parkeri, Kbrn. Scape pubescent, terminated by a compound, dense spike ; leaves 

 oblong, obliquely pointed, glabrous : midrib curved at the apex : petiolar knob villous at the 

 annulate base ; spike oblong-lanceolate : lower branches often distant, erect : bracts oblong- 

 lanceolate, imbricate, the common ones sub-3-stichous, special distichous, much longer than 

 their internodes, innermost bractlet membranaceous ; corolla yellow : tube thrice as long as 

 the limb : lower lip obovate. — Rose. Monandr. i. 42. — Phrynium, Rose. Maranta lachnocaula, 

 Miq.!— Scape several feet high; leaves 15"- 12" long, 6"-5" broad, long-petioled; race- 

 mose spike 3"-S", bracts about 1" long.— Hab. Trinidad !, Cr. ; [Guiana !, equat. Brazil]- 



