26 Materials for a Flora of Hie Malayan Peninsula. 



This is remarkable for the thin narrow bracts and small flowers, 

 and for the peculiar crested stigma which resembles that of some of the 

 South American species. 



10. Zingiber, Adans. 



Ehizome short thick more or less aromatic. Stems leafy. Leaves 

 lanceolate. Spike from the rhizome (rarely terminal) almost sessile or 

 pedunculate, cylindric or conic, with large red or yellow bracts contain- 

 ing 1 or more flowers. Calyx tubular short. Corolla tube little longer 

 than the bract, lobes oblong or lanceolate. Staminodes wanting. Lip 

 3 lobed, midlobe longer. Stamen filament linear. Anther cells linear, 

 connective prolonged into a long terminal curved beak. Style as long- 

 Capsule thin-walled splitting into 3 valves, seeds black angled covered 

 with an aril. 



Species, about 30. India, Siam, Malayan. 



Spikes base broad, apex blunt. 

 Leafy stems 4 to 7 feet tall. 

 Spikes cylindric large 

 Spike short conic ... 



Leafy stems about 2 feet. 

 Spikes obconic, bracts narrow 

 Spikes cylindric red. Lip midlobe entire 



Lip midlobe bifid 

 Spikes yellow cylindric blunt. 



Lip pink, midlobe bifid ••• ... 6. Z. chrysostachys. 



Lip white midlobe entire ... ... 7. Z. citrinum. 



Spikes fusiform narrowed at base apex acute. 



Lip midlobe acute deeply bifid ... 8 Z, gracile. 



Lip midlobe entire oblong blunt ... 9. Z. pubcrula. 



Lip midlobe entire lanceolate acute ... 10. Z. Griffithii. 



1. Z. SPECTABILE, Griff'. Notul. iii. 413. Stems 7 feet tall i inch 

 through. Leaves about 25, lanceolate mucronate 12 inches long, 4 

 inches across dull green, ligule thin bilobed ]' inch long. Peduncles 

 stout 12 inches or more. Spike as long. Bracts stiff ovate edges re- 

 curved blunt, at first yellow, then scarlet. Calyx spathaceous subobtuse 

 1^ inch long white. Corolla tube 1\ inch long, lobes lanceolate acute 

 1^ inch long, lower ones connate for 2 the length and adnate to the lip, 

 yellowish white. Lip 3 lobed shorter, side lobes broad rounded, medi- 

 an ovate bifid lemon yellow mottled black or deep purple. Anther 

 broad yollow appendage long curved purple. Capsule an inch long. 

 Bak. I.e. Ridley I.e. 128. Z. macradeiiium, Sebum. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 

 XXVII, 269. Pflanzeur, 171. 



Malacca: Punchor (Goodenough 1272); Negri Sombilan : Bukit 

 Tampin (Goodenough 1877) ; Selangor : Fataling ; Pahang : Kwala 



