724 CXXAI. SClTAiriNE.r. 



Filament short ; connective broad, crested ; 



stigma tuibinate 2. K.empfeiiia. 



Filament long, complicate; connective broad, 



not crested ; stigma turbinate 3. Hitchenia. 



Filament long, narrow ; connective very 



narrow, not crested ; stigma subglobose ... 4. Hedyciiiu.m. 

 Connective spurred at the base ; corolla-tube 



funnel-shaped 5. Cl'rcu.ma. 



Lateral staminodes small or (rarely narrow and 

 adnate to the lip) ; corolla-tube cylindric. 

 Flowers iu dense cone-like spikes. 



Anther-cells divaricate, on a short arcuate 



filament, with or without a petaloid crest... G. AMo.MUir. 

 Anther-cells contiguous, parallel. 



Filament short ; connective produced 

 into a narrow appendage as long as 

 the anther; stigma small, subglobose; 

 spikes usually produced direct from 



the rootstock ... 7. Zingiber. 



Filament forming with the produced coti- 

 nective an oblong petaloid process 

 with the contiguous linear anther- 

 cells placed in its middle; stigma 

 with a semilunar pit ciliate round the 

 margin ; spikes usually at the lop of 

 leafy stems, rarely produced direct 



from the rootstock 8. Costus. 



Flowers in racemes or panicles at the top of leafy 

 stems; filament long ; anther-cells divergent at 



the apex; stigma subglobose 9. Alpinia. 



Anther 1-celled, laterally adnate to a petaloid filament; calyx 



of free sepals 10. Piirynium. 



Stamens 5 perfect, the sixth imperfect or absent ; stigma more or less 



distinctly 6-lobed 11. MusA. 



1. GLOBBA, Linn. 



Iloi'bs with creeping; rliizomes and erect stems. Leaves oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate. Flowers in terminal panicles or spikes ; bracts 

 usually deciduous ; buds often replaced by bulbils. Calyx funnel-shaped, 

 3-lobed. Petals 3, connate in a corolla with a tube longer than the 

 calyx; corolla-lobes ovate, subequal. Stamen 1 perfect; filament long, 

 incurved, with 2 dorsal appendages ; anther oblong, the connective 

 simple, winged, or spurred, produced beyond the cells ; lateral stami- 

 nodes petalo)d,contiguous to the corolla-segments. Lip deflexed. Ovary 

 1-celled; ovules many, on 3 parietal ])lacentas ; style filiform, laying in 

 a groove of the filament ; stigma turbinate. Fruit a globose capsule, 

 tardily dehiscent. — Uistrib. East India, INLalaya, China, Philippines, 

 Is'ew Guinea; species GO or 70. 



1. Globba bulbifera, lUvh. in As: Ties. v. 1 1 (1810) p. 358. Stems 

 8-24 in. high, slender, erect or drooping, crowded on a tufted root- 

 stock ; root of fleshy fibres. Leaves 3-7 by 1-1 ^ i"-> few, elliptic- 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolale, distichous, shortly ])etiolate, green above, 

 j)aler and more or less puberulous beneath; midrib stout; sheath long, 

 ciliate ; ligule very short, ciliate. Flowers in lax spikes or racemes 2-3 j 

 in. long, fragrant, sessile or very shortly pedicellate, the lower replaced 

 by yellow ovoid bulbils ^-| in. long; bracts loose, elli])tic-oblong, obtus 



