Tas. 5994. 
CIENKOWSKIA KIRKII. 
Native of Eastern Tropical Africa. 
Nat. Ord. ScrraMINEZ.—Tribe ZINzIBERz. 
Genus Crenxowsk1a, Solms Laubach ; (Schweinfurth Beitrag Flor, AEthiop., 
p: 197, t-.1). 
Crexxowsria Kirkii ; foliis 3-5 distichis elliptico-ovatis acuminatis suberectis 
floribus coetaneis, scapo gracili adscendente vaginato multifloro, spathis 
$-pollicaribus cymbiformibus subacutis, ovario glabro, perianthio externo 
brevi ovario subequilongo infun dibulari-campanulato truncato margine 
eroso 8-corniculato, petalis 3 exterioribus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis 
concavis antheram vix superantibus, interioribus in labellum amplum 
3-lobum connatis, lobo intermedio latiore emarginato, connectivo in 
laminam late oblongam apice obtusam recurvam producto, staminodiis 
parvis conicis obtusis. 
errs ae 
The genus Cienkowskia was established by Solmes Laubach 
(Sitzungsbericht der Ges. naturf. Freunde, July, 1863) on a 
Zinziberaceous plant of Abyssinia, which differs from 
Kempferia in the inner perianth lobes being united so as to 
form one 3-lobed lip, split to the base posteriorly. ‘This 
character appears to be overlooked in Solmes Laubach s 
description of the genus quoted above (in Schweinfurth's 
Beitrag), which disagrees in no respect from the character of 
Kempferia ; it is however accurately pourtrayed in the 
figure of the original species, C. Aithiopica, given in the same _ 
work. A third staminode is, according to this figure, em- 
bedded in the summit of the ovary, half way between the 
top of the cells and insertion of the outer perianth ; this I 
regret to say was not searched for in the plant here figured ; 
but I find it in a careful drawing of another species, made 
during Livingstone’s second expedition by Dr. Kirk. 
e genus Cienkowskia extends from N atal to Abyssinia 
and Nubia, and across the continent to the Niger river an 
OCTOBER Ist, 1872. 
