CI. 4.J CANNjE, SCITAMINEvE. 79 



is Renealmia of Linn. Suppl. 7, but really belongs to 

 Alpinia,) Carina, Globba, fig. 1, Myrosma, Amomum, 

 Costus, Alpinia, Maranta, Thalia, Curcuma, Kcemp- 

 feria, and Hedychium, append. 448. 



Mr. Roscoe, Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 8. 330, has first 

 correctly defined the genera of this Order, by the 

 shape of the Stamen, or Filament, which affords ex- 

 cellent essential characters, concurring with other 

 differences in habit and inflorescence, and all to- 

 gether establishing the most natural genera possible. 



The Order is well divided by him and Mr. Brown, 

 Prodr. N. Holl. v. 1. 307, into real Cannes, com- 

 prising Canna, Maranta* '', Thalia, Phrynium, with 

 (certainly) Myrosma; and Scitamine.e, as Linnaeus 

 terms the whole, embracing all the rest. The Can* 

 neaz have a simple Anther, and are scarcely fragrant 

 in any part ; their Style is petal-like, or tumid, with a 

 nearly simple, naked Stigma. The Scitaminece, fig. 1., 

 have an Anther of two distant lobes, meeting around 

 their thread-shaped Style, whose Stigma is dilated, 

 cup-shaped, and fringed. The plants are in some 

 part or other, if not all over, powerfully aromatic or 

 pungent. The character of this last Order may, ac- 

 cording to our judgment, be thus more correctly 

 given. 



Calyx, fig. 1, a, superior, tubular, undivided, or 

 unequally 3-lobed. Corolla, b, more or less tubular 



*Dr. Meyer, Fl. Essequeb. 6, has separated M. Casupo, J acq. Fragm . 

 51. t. 63. fi 4, as a genus, by the name of Calathea. 



