Kcempferia:\ ScUaniinece. 243 



rounded or cuspidate, upper much shorter, oblong, obtuse ; 

 fl. \-\ in. across the mouth ; cal. about half the length of the 

 cor.-tube, narrowly funnel-shaped, obliquely bifid ; cor.-tube 

 I in., subcampanulate, segm. oblong, obtuse, erect, dorsal 

 broader ; staminodes broad, obtuse ; lip suborbicular, broader 

 than long, emarginate or bifid, reflexed, sides incurved, disk 

 with a golden band. 



Moist region ; very rare. Ambagamuwa Dist. Fl. Feb.-June ; white, 

 with yellow stain on lip. 

 Endemic. 



3. K.a:»IPF£RIA, Linn. 

 Rootstock short; stem short or o; 1. few; spike termi- 

 nating the leafing stem, or on a radical leafless stem; cal.-tube 

 short, cylindric, bifid or split down one side; cor.-tube long, 

 slender, segm. equal, spreading; staminodes broad, petaloid, 

 lateral erect ; lip decurved ; anth. erect, opp. the lip, cells 

 linear, on the margins of the broad connective, which is 

 produced into an entire or bifid appendage; ov. 3-celled, 

 cells few- or many-ovuled, style long, filiform, stigma globose 

 or turbinate, mouth ciliate; fr. ovoid or oblong, pericarp thin; 

 seeds subglobose, aril lacerate. — Sp. about 30 ; 22 in Fl. 

 B. Ind. 



Lip obovate-panduriform i. K. PANDURATA. 



Lip very broad, 2-lobed 2. K. ROTUNDA. 



*Ki. pandurata, Roxb. in Asiai. Res. xi. 328 (18 10). Amba- 

 kaha, 6. 



Thw. Enum. 316. Zingiber xanthorhiza, Moon, Cat. i. C. P. 3702. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 220. Bot. Reg. 1. 173. Rumph. Herb. Amb. v. t. 69, f. i. 



Rootstock horizontal, bright yellow within, with many 

 nodose branches and thick succulent vermiform root-fibres; 

 1. few, distichous, erect, 9-15 in. long, oval, acute, decurrent 

 into the wings of the long, stout, much sheathing petiole, 

 which attains 6 in., and is deeply channelled above, green on 

 both surfaces, midrib stout, ligule short, narrow; spike 

 terminal, subsessile amongst the leaves, 3-4 in. long, oblong, 

 dense-fld. ; bracts about 2 in. long, linear-lanceolate, subacute, 

 hyaline, inner narrower; cal.-tube about i in. long, cylindric, 

 narrow, hyaline, bifid ; cor.-tube over 2 in., very slender, 

 cylindric, erect, or curved at the top, segm. about | in., oblong, 

 acute; staminodes 3,2 lateral equal, | in., oval-oblong, obtuse, 

 spreading; lip f in. broad, broadly oval-panduriform, undulate; 

 anth. erect, recurved, tipped with a bifid appendage. — ■ 

 Trimen mss. 



