244 Scitaminece. {Hedychium. 



In native gardens, never I think really wild. Fl. May; pale pink, the 

 lateral staminodes darker, the lip mottled with purple. 



Also in Western India, Burma, and Malaya. 



The rhizome has a warm, slightly aromatic flavour, used in medicine 

 only. The 'Mango-Ginger' of India is a different plant {Curcuma 

 Amada, Roxb.). 



K. Galans;a, Linn., Hingum-pujali, S., is largely cultivated in native 

 gardens. Hermann mentions it (Mus. 54), Burm. gives a wretched figure 

 (Thes. t. 13, f. i), and it is Fl. Zeyl. n. 8. There is a good figure in Wight, 

 Ic. t. 899. 



2. *VL. rotunda, Liiin. Sp. PL 2 (1753). Vawakenda, Iian- 

 kenda, S. 



Burm. Thes. 67. Fl. Zeyl. n. 9. Moon, Cat. 2. Thw. Enum. 316. 



C. P.3175- 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 222. Wight, Ic. t. 2029. Bot. Mag. t. 6054. 



Rootstock tuberous, with many very thick fascicled suc- 

 culent root-fibres, bearing oblong tubers 1-2 in. long; 1. few, 

 erect, 12 by 3-4 in., oblong, acuminate, mottled green above, 

 beneath pale red-purple, base contracted into a long cylindric 

 purple-brown sheath ; spike produced before the 1., oblong, 

 sessile, 4-6-fld., clothed with large purple imbricating bracts ; 

 fl, very large, 2 in. broad ; bracts oblong, acute, inner 2-3 

 in. long, outer shorter ; cal. tubular, nearly as long as the 

 cor.-tube, minutely toothed, spathaceous, slit on one side ; 

 cor.-tube 2-3 in., segm. 2-2^' in., narrowly linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, widely spreading, margins involute ; lateral 

 staminodes 1^-2 in. long, erect, oblong, obtuse ; lip deflexed, 

 deeply cleft into 2 suborbicular coloured lobes as long as the 

 staminodes and broader ; anth. erect, crest divided to the base 

 into 2 erect lanceolate or subulate segments. 



Low country, not uncommon, but nowhere wild ; abundant in Pera- 

 deniya Gardens. There are specimens from Moon in Brit. Mus. from 

 Three Korales collected in 1820. Fl. March, April ; petals and staminodes 

 white, lip with darker green, bright violet-purple. 



A very handsome plant ; fl. sweet-scented, 1. often clouded in the 

 middle, and with paler green between the veins. 



4. KEDYCHIUIMCi, Ka;?i. 

 Rootstock horizontal, stout, root-fibres not tuberous; stem 

 elongate, leafy ; 1. distichous, oblong or lanceolate ; fl. few or 

 many, in terminal bracteatc spikes ; bracts oblong, coriaceous, 

 I or morc-fld. ; cal. tubular, 3 -toothed ; lateral staminodes 

 linear or cuneatcly oblong; lip large, 2-fid ; fil. narrow, usually 

 very long, anth.-cclls contiguous, connective not produced ; 

 ov. 3-celled, ovules many, superposed, style long, filiform, 

 stigma subglobose ; capsule globose or oblong, 3-valved; seeds 

 many, aril lacerate. — Sp. 35 ; 24 in Fl. B. Ind. 



