336 Mr. Roscoz's New Arrangement of the Plants Scitaminee. 
this very circumstance renders them of the greatest use in de- 
termining the specific characters of these plants ; which are not 
always obtained without difficulty from the general habit and 
leaves. Of these facts whoever examines the parts of fructifica- 
tion of the Cannas, the Zingibers, or the Kempferias, will be fully 
convinced. 1 
I must further observe that in the true Scitaminean plants, 
the stigma is almost uniformly hollow and cup-like, frequently 
compressed, with the edges of the cup finely ciliated. "The style 
is thread-like and flaccid, but so elastic, when stretched, as to 
bear a considerable tension. But these parts, which are often of 
so much importance in determining the generic yoni afford 
in this instance but little assistance. 
The principal distinctions on which it is proposed. to Susie 
the genera of these plants will appear in the following synopti- 
cal table; to which I shall add a brief notice of each genus, 
and an examination of the species, as far as either the plants, 
or good and authentic figures and descriptions of them, have 
enabled me to ascertain ams mith, SON Soe 
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