2 6o Scitaniinece. s^E.cttaria. 



9. CYPHOSTZCmA, Bcnth. 

 Rootstock stout, horizontal ; leafing stem short, distinct 

 from the flg. ; 1. petioled, oblong-lanceolate; flg. ped. flexuous, 

 decumbent, ascending, branched, furnished with spathaceous 

 sheaths or bracts; fl. solitary or binate in the bracts, bracteo- 

 late, pedicelled; cal. loosely tubular, 3-toothed, at length split; 

 cor.-tube shortly exserted, 3-lobed, lobes subequal, revolute, 

 lateral staminodes o; lip sessile, orbicular-reniforni, broadl}- 

 3-lobed; fil. short, anth. erect, cells parallel, connective narrow, 

 dilated above into a very broad petaloid, crisped, crest nearly 

 as broad as the lip; ov. ovoid, 3-cellcd, cells many-ovuled, 

 style filiform, stigma urceolate, mouth ciliate; fr. globose, 

 fleshy, crowned with the cal.-segm., ribbed, many-seeded ; 

 seeds small, subglobose, testa grey, reticulate. — Monotypic. 



C. pulchellum, BcntJi. in Hook. Ic. PL ser. 3, iv. 61 (1882). 

 AvioDium pulchclliim, Thw. Enuni. 318. C. P. 2736. 

 Y\. B. Ind. vi. 251. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1380. 



Stem 6-10 in., formed of compressed 1. sheaths ; 1. \\-2 ft. by 

 3-5 in., acute at both ends, membranous, finely reticulate, 

 midrib hairy beneath, petiole ^ in., slender, sheaths compressed, 

 thin, ligule bifid, lobes short, rounded ; flg. stem from the base 

 of the leafing stem, 2-4 ft. long, slender, distantly paniculately 

 branched, internodes long or short, clothed with coriaceous 

 oblong, obtuse, ribbed bracts 2-2^ in. long, branches slender, 

 erect, clothed with tubular spathaceous bracts; fl. solitary in 

 thesheaths terminating the branchlets, erect; cal.-tube i-iJ, in., 

 coriaceous, puberulou';, tip recurved; cor.-tube rather longer, 

 slender, tomentose, segm. i-H in., linear-oblong, pubescent, 

 dorsal broadest; lip i in. long and broad, lobes short, rounded, 

 disk smooth; fil. very short, villous, anth. -cells narrow, gla- 

 brous, tips diverging, crest \-\ in. broad, lobulate; ov. pu- 

 bescent, style glabrous, stigma urceolate; fr. H in. diam., 

 9-ribbed. 



Forests in moist region to 3000 ft.; rather common. Hiniduma; 

 y\mbagamuwa; Hantane; Adam's Peak, &c. Fl. Feb. ; bright pale pink. 

 Endemic. 



10. EZiETTARIA, Matoii. 



Rootstock stout, horizontal ; leafing stem distinct from 



the flg. ; 1. distichous, narrow ; flg. stem from the base of the 



leafing stem, elongate, prostrate, fle.xuous, branched, with 



spathaceous bracts at the nodes, and bearing many short few- 



flg. racemes ; bracts 2-3-fld. ; fl. erect, shortl}- pedicelled, 



