250 ScitamineCB. [Amommn. 



1. A. floribundum, Trim. Syst. Cat. 92 (1885). 

 Elettaria Jloribunda, Thw. Enum. 319. C. P. 3374. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 233. 



Leafing stem 3-6 ft. or more ; 1. 18-24 by 3-5 in., oblong 

 or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous on both surfaces 

 or pubescent on the midrib beneath, firm, base narrowed into 

 a petiole ^-i in. long, sheath glabrous, ligule short, rounded, 

 entire, coriaceous ; fig. stem i-i^ ft., very stout, Jin. diam. 

 clothed with erect, obtuse, brown, smooth sheaths; spike globose, 

 truncate, many-fld., 3-4 in. diam. ; bracts blood-red, very 

 broad, outer \\ in. long and broad, retuse rounded or mucro- 

 nate ; fl. shorter than the bracts, about i\ in. long; cal.-tube 

 ventricose, about as long as the cor.-tube, split ; cor.-tube 

 \-\ in., segm. subequal, \-\ in. long, broadly oblong, obtuse, 

 concave ; lateral staminodes o ; lip spathulate, subacute, 

 fleshy, about as long as the cor.-segm., tip recurved ; anth. 

 \ in., subsessile, connective dilated upwards into a very low 

 fleshy 2-lobed crest, cells slender, diverging upwards, glabrous; 

 ov. and style glabrous, stigma subcapitate ; fr. \ in. long, 

 ovoid, narrowed into the longer persistent calyx-tube, sub- 

 trigonous, coriaceous, appressed pubescent. 



Forests in montane zone 3-4000. ft.; rare. Ambagamuwa; Hantane. 

 Fl. Nov.; pale yellow, bracts crimson. 



Endemic. 



The description given above is taken from several flowers in the 

 Peraden. Herb. It differs in the character of the lip from that of 

 Thwaites, who calls this ' obovate, retuse, obscurely 3-lobed.' A fruiting 

 specimen in Herb. Peraden. has an oblong spike 6 in. long by 4 in. diam., 

 like that oi A. fulviceps. — J. D. H. 



2. A. involucratum, Trim. Syst. Cat. 92 (1885). 

 Elettaria involucrata, Thw. Enum. 319. C. P, 3019. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 233. 



Leafing stem 6-10 ft. and upwards; 1. 1J-3 ft. by 4-7 in., 

 subsessile, oblong- or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, m.em- 

 branous, glabrous, or finely pubescent beneath, base acute, 

 sheath coriaceous, pubescent, ligule short, rounded, entire, 

 pubescent; flg. stem ii-3 ft., very stout, erect, clothed with 

 oblong or ovate-oblong obtuse red sheaths 3-10 in. long; spike 

 globose, spreading and truncate above, involucrate by large 

 red bracts ; outer bracts ovate-oblong, much longer than the 

 fl., inner shorter, almost orbicular, membranous, innermost 

 i-U in., oblong, obtuse; cal.-tube nearly as long as the cor.- 

 tube, coriaceous, glabrous, inflated above, usually dorsally 

 cuspidate; cor.-tube |-i in. long, stout, curved, glabrous, 

 funnel-shaped above, segm. broadly ovate-oblong, or orbicular, 

 not half the length of the tube; lip rather longer than the cor.- 



