Tab. 6991. 

 CAUTLEYA lutea. 



Native of the Himalaya Mountain*. 



Nat Ord. Scitaminejs. — Tribe Zingibebe^:. 

 Germs Cautleta, Boyle III. Bot. Himal. p. 361.) 



Cautleta lutea; gkberrima, caule gracili foliato, foliis lanceolatis caudato- 

 acuminatis, vaginis ekmgatis, spica dissitiflora, bracteis catyci appressis, 

 ealyce tubuloso gracili rubro-purpureo ore obtuse bidentato, corollce flavas tubo 

 calyce longiore lobo postico erecto lineari-oblongo subacuto fornicato concavo, 

 lateralibus oblcngis obtusis recurvis, staminodiis lateralibus erectis sepalo pos- 

 tico parallels et eo subsimilibus sed paullo latioribus et obtusis, labelio petalis 

 sequilongo alte bilobo, lobis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, anthera linear! apiee 

 obtuse 2-lobo connectivo basi loeulis sequiloDgo deorsum dilatato obtuse 2-lobo, 

 capsula globosa carnosula valvis 3 recurvis, seminibus angulatis, arillo brevi. 



Cautleya lutea, Boyle I. c. 



Roscoea gracilis, Smith in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. p. 460; Horanin. Brodr. 

 Jifonogr, Scit. p. 21. 



E. lutea, Boyle I. c. 361, t. 89, f. 2. 



In 1839 Dr. Boyle, in his Illustrations of Himalayan 

 Plants, published and figured the Roscoea gracilis of Smith 

 under the name of lutea, not having recognized its identity 

 with the previously published plant. Under his description 

 of it he observes that he had formed it into a distinct 

 genus, under the name of Cautlea (an error for Cautleya), 

 in compliment to his friend Captain Gautley, F.G.S., but 

 in deference to the opinion of botanical friends, he had 

 referred it to Roscoea. Royle gives no reason for having 

 formed of this plant a new genus, and his botanical friends, 

 on advising him to suppress it, were no doubt aware that 

 both itself and several other very closely allied plants were 

 included in Roscoea by Smith and others. Bentham (Gen. 

 Plant, iii. 641) remarks of Eoyle' s Cautlea that it forms a 

 section of Roscoea, or almost a new genus, with flowers 

 (always?) yellow in an exserted spike, the corolla-tube hardly 

 exceeding the calyx, the ovary short and broad, and the 

 capsule globose with three coriaceous valves that becoming 

 reliexed expose the seeds, which are retained by the fleshy 

 placenta. Having collected and examined several species of 



apbil 1st, 1888. 



