Zingiber.^ Scitanilnecc. 257 



persistent, usually single-fld.; cal.-tube cylindric, shortly 

 3-lobed ; cor. -tube cylindric, slender, segm. lanceolate, dorsal 

 hooded, lateral staminodes o, or adnate to the Hjd; lip cunei- 

 form or oblong, entire or 3-lobed, sessile; fil. short, anth. -cells 

 contiguous, parallel, connective'^ending in a long erect incurved 

 slender beak as long as -the cells, grooved in front, and 

 embracing the top of the style; 6v. 3-celled, cells man}-- 

 ovuled, style filiform, as long^as the anther beak, tip in- 

 curved within the beak, stigma small, ciliate; fr. oblong, at 

 length dehiscent, seeds arillate. — Sp. about 30; 26 in FL 

 B. Ind. 



Side lobes of lip small. 



Spike subcapitate i. Z. Wightianum. 



Spike elongate 2. Z. cvlindricum. 



Side lobes of lip large. 



Spike cylindric '. . 3. Z. Cassumunar. 



Spike conico-oblong 4. Z. Zerumbet. 



1. Z. Wig-htianum, Thw. Enitm. 315 (1861). 



C. P. 2286. Z. squarrosum^ Wight, Ic. vi. 16 (non Roxb.). 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 244. Wight, Ic. t. 2004 (Z. squarrosiim). 



Rootstock tuberous, with fleshy root-fibres; leafing stem 

 4-6 ft.; 1. 12-18 by 3-4 in., sessile or very shortly petioled, 

 oblong-lanceolate, subcaudately acuminate, puberulous beneath, 

 membranous, base narrowed, acute, sheath membranous at the 

 2-lobed top, ligule membranous, bifid, lobes about yV in., 

 rounded, ciliate; fig. stam ascending, 2-4 in. long, straight or 

 decurved, clothed with membranous white or pale rose col'd. 

 or green sheaths \-\\ in. long ; spike oblong or subglobose ; 

 bracts i^ in., narrowly oblong, green, glabrous or laxly 

 pubescent; cal.-tube liin. long, loosely tubular, membranous, 

 sparsely hairy; cor.-tube as long as the cal., slender, sparsely 

 pubescent, segm. about i in. long, narrow, acuminate; lip 

 sessile, nearly as long as the cor.-segm., obovate or cuneate- 

 obovate, with 2 small basal lateral lobes (staminodes?); stam. 

 shorter than the lip, anth. \ in. long, cells ciliate; ov. pubes- 

 cent, style glabrous, stigma very small, truncate ciliate; 

 fr. |—i in. long, oblong, curved, pericarp rather thin; seeds 

 rather large. 



Forests in low country and extending up to 4000 ft.; common. Fl. 

 Feb.-July ; yellow, lip veined with violet. 

 Also in Travancore. 



2. Z. cylindricuzn, Moo?i, Cat. Ceyl. PL i (1824). 

 Thw. Enum. 315. C. P. 2287. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 247. 



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