Aipima.'] Sctta77iine(E. 247 



cuspidate, silky beneath, sheath coriaceous, ligule o ; spike 

 sessile, many-fld., 2-4 in. diam. ; bracts i-i| in., ovate, 

 acuminate, bright red, as long as the cor.-tube ; cal.-tube i in. 

 long, lobes 3, ovate, cuspidate ; cor.-tube as long as the calyx, 

 segm. longer than the tube, acute ; lip suborbicular, 2-3 in. 

 diam., concave, plicate, and crisped, margins sometimes meet- 

 ing in the middle, disk pubescent, and with a tuft of hairs at 

 the base; stam. \\-2 in., linear, with a tuft of hairs at the 

 base of the fil., connective petaloid, pubescent on the sides, 

 produced into a recurved, lanceolate, glabrous appendage as 

 long as the linear cells ; ov. subglobose, pubescent ; fr. 

 globosely trigonous, red, i in. diam. 



Shady places in low country; rather rare. Ambagamuwa ; Morowak 

 Korale; Kaduganawa; Nilgala. Fl. Jan.-March, June; lip white, with 

 yellow centre. 



Throughout India and Malaya. Rootstock used medicinally, and 

 eaten in famine times. 



6. AliPZNZA, Limt. 



Rootstock stout ; stem tall, stout, simple, leafy ; 1. oblong 



or lanceolate ; fl. in terminal panicles or racemes, bracteate 



and bracteolate; cal. loosely tubular or subcampanulate, mouth 



shortly 2-3-toothed or -lobed ; cor.-tube cylindric, about as 



long as the cal., lobes spreading, dorsal broader and more 



convex ; lateral staminodes small ; lip large, spreading, sessile 



or clawed ; fil. broad, concave, anth.-cells linear, separated by 



a broad or narrow connective ; ov. 3-celled, style filiform, 



stigma subglobose ; fr. globose, many-seeded ; seeds with a 



fleshy or spongy aril. — Sp. about 40 ; 1 7 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Panicle broad, erect or inclined ; lip long-clawed . i. A. Allughas. 

 Panicle narrow, drooping ; lip sessile . . . . 2. A. NUTANS. 



I. A. Allugrhas, Rose, in Trans. Linn. Soc. viii. 346 (1807). Alu^ 

 Alu-iras, Alan, XLelenuja, S. 



Herm. Mus. 46. Burm. Thes. 54. Fl. Zeyl. n. 448. Heritiera 

 Allughas^ Retz. Obs. Bot. vi. 17. Zingiber tiigrum, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 35. 

 Moon, Cat. i. Thw. Enum. 320. C. P. 3157. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 253. Retz. Obs. Bot. vi. t. i. Wight, Ic. t. 2026 

 i^A. Rheedii). 



Root tuberous, aromatic ; stem. 3-6 ft. ; 1. very shortly 

 petioled, i-i| ft. by 3-6 in., linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, with usually a twisted cusp, glabrous, base acute, 

 sheath compressed, ligule rounded; panicle erect, decompound, 

 6-12 in. long, pubescent or tomentose, lax- or dense-fld., 

 branches short, ascending, with linear deciduous bracts 4-6 in. 

 long at the lower forks ; fl. suberect, shortly pedicelled, 



