1 58 RIDLEY. 



Corolla-tube short, thick. 



Panicle-branches spicate, with close-set bracts 13. Koloioratia 



Panicle-branches lax, the bracts small, caducous :.. 14. Alpinia 



Leafy stem spiral; ligule annular; spike terminal or radical 15. Costus 



§ 2. Marantace.-e. Non-aromatic. Fertile stamen one, with a single cell on 

 the edge, the three others petaloid, irregular. 



Stems erect, shrubby, branched 16. Donaa> 



Stemless plants. 



Inflorescence panicled, from the side of a petiole, spikes elongate. 



17. Phacelophrynium 



Spikes in a dense lateral head 18. Phrynium 



Spikes in small heads; flowers solitary in the bracts 19. Monophrynium 



§3. Cannace.e. Non-aromatic. Panicle terminal. Stamens regular, petaloid, 

 one with a lateral anther-cell 20. Canna 



§ 4. Musace^:. Stamens five, non-petaloid ; petals and sepals each connate into 

 one organ 21. Musa 



1. GLOBBA L. 



Slender herbs with a short rhizome. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, thin, 

 sheathing, with a small ligule. Inflorescence terminal, panicled, lax. 

 Flowers small, yellow, white, or violet, Calyx tubular, 3-toothed, regular 

 or irregular. Corolla-tube longer, 3-lobed, lobes boat-shaped, deflexed. 

 Staminodes similar. Lip-base adnate by its edges to the stamen, forming 

 a tube, the limb narrow, deflexed, usually bilobed, rarely entire, the fila- 

 ment much longer, erect, slender. Anther small; connective prolonged 

 laterally into a simple margin, or with two to four triangular spurs. 

 Style longer, slender; stigma very small, cup-shaped. Ovary 1-celled, the 

 placentas 3, parietal. Capsule globose, smooth or warted, succulent, 

 dehiscing irregularly. Seeds small, with a white aril. 



Species about 80, extending from India to Siam, southern China, and the 

 Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 

 § Ceratanthera. Anther-spurs one on each side. 

 Flowers yellow. 



A tall stout plant, the panicle pyramidal 1. G. pyramidata 



A weak small plant, the panicle slender 2. G. parviflora 



Flowers white. 

 Leaves glabrous. 



Anther-spurs linear, acuminate 3. G. campsophylla 



Anther-spurs triangular. 



Calyx turbinate 4. a. brcvifolia 



Calyx cylindrical 5. G. Merrillii 



Leaves pubescent beneath. 

 Sheaths pubescent, 



Staminodes lanceolate, acute 6. G. gracilis 



Staminodes oblong, blunt 7. G. latifolia 



Sheaths glabrous 8. G. leucocarpa 



§ Marantetxa. Anther-spun two on each side. 



Flowers yellow 9. G. marantina 



Flowers black or violet 10. G. ustuiata 



1. G. pyramidata Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot, France IV 1 (1901) 204,. 

 pi 4, f. 7-10; K. Solium, in Pflanzenreich 20 (1904) 146. 



