256 ScitamineCB. [Zingiber. 



acuminate, glabrous above, minutely puberulous beneath, 

 petiole 2 in., sheath slender, margins villous, ligule | in., 

 villously bearded ; flg. stem 2-3 in., stout, clothed with short 

 oblong scales ; spike globose, i in. diam. ; bracts | in. long, 

 oblong, acute, membranous, glabrous, tips tomentose; cor.- 

 tube I in., segm. oblong, obtuse; anth.-cells glabrous, crest 

 broad, 3-lobed; fr. pedicelled, h in. diam., ovoid, obtuse, 

 copiously echinate with short curved spines. 



Moist low country; very rare. The C. P. specimens are from Reigam 

 Korale, 1864. Fl. Sept. 



Endemic. 



The specimens are very imperfect, and there is no drawing of the 

 plant.— J. D. H. 



13. A. rufescens, TVm. Syst. Cat. 92 (1885). 

 Elettaria rufcscens, Thw. Enum. 430. C. P. 3732. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 242. 



Rootstock short, with long root-fibres; whole plant rufous- 

 brown when dry; stem. 1^-2 ft, rather slender; 1. 5-10 by 

 1-2 in., sessile, oblong-lanceolate, finely acuminate, base acute, 

 firm, green, glabrous, sheath narrow, ligule short, rounded; 

 ped. terminal on the leafy stem, short, stout, naked or with 

 1-2 arrested 1. ; spike globose, 1^-2 in. diam., involucrate by a 

 few outer loose coriaceous bracts, inner bracts oblong, acute 

 or cuspidate ; fl. shorter than the outer bracts, h in. across the 

 cor.-seg. ; cal.-tube as long as the cor.- tube, narrowly funnel- 

 shaped, broadly 2-lipped ; cor.-tube h in. long, very slender, 

 glabrous, segm. J in. long, almost orbicular, concave; lip 

 rather longer than the cor.-segm., cuneately spathulate, fleshy, 

 3-lobed towards the apex, side lobes small, rounded, disk hairy, 

 mid lobe small, retuse or 2-lobulate ; anth.-cells glabrous, 

 parallel, connective not produced beyond the cells ; style 

 glabrous, stigma obconic. 



Lower montane zone ; very rare. Dickoya. Fl. Sept. ; reddish- 

 yellow. 



Endemic. 



Except in the terminal infl. this species is closely allied to A. 

 Jloribiindu7n and involucrattim. 



\A. 7ntellinum, Lindl., was grown at Chiswick, and said to be of 

 Ceylon origin. Figured in Bot. Reg. 1847, t. 52. It has terminal spikes 

 on the leafing stem like A. rufcscens., but the lip is orbicular, twice as long 

 as the cor.-segm., and the anth. has a large tritid crest.] 



8. ZZNCZBER, Adans. 



Rootstock horizontal, tuberous, jointed; leafing stem 



elongate, distinct from the flg., or bearing terminal infl.; 



1. distichous, oblong-lanceolate, sheaths long; spike on a 



leafless stem or terminal on the leafing stem; bracts large, 



