Materials for a Flora of the Malayan 

 Peninsula. 



PART II. 



IV. ZINGIBEKACEAE. 



Herbaceous plants often of large size, stem usually rhizomatous short 

 or long, branches erect, short or tall. Leaves linear ovate or lanceolate 

 petioled sheathing, herbaceous. Inflorescence terminal or rarely lateral 

 on the leafy stems, or on short leafless stems from the rhizome spicate 

 racemose or panicled. Calyx tubular with 3 lobes. Corolla tubular 

 with three petaloid lobes. Stamens fertile 1 to 5, the missing ones 

 quite suppressed or reduced to short processes, or petaloid. Style 

 filiform, stigma 2 or 3 lobed small capitate. Ovary inferior 3 celled 

 rarely 1 celled, placentas 3 axile or parietal ovales. Fruit capsular or 

 baccate, seeds numerous usually enclosed in a sweet aril, rounded or 

 angled, aromatic. 



Species about 600. Tropics of both hemispheres with a few species 

 in sub-tropical regions. 



§ 1. ZiNGlBEilEAE, aromatic plants. Fertile stamen 1 with 2 cells. 



§ 2. MARANTACEAE, non-aromatic plants. Fertile stamen 1 with a single 

 cell on the edge, three other stamens petaloid. 



§ 3. Cannaceae, non-aromatic. Stamens!, petaloid one with a single 

 cell on the edge. 



§ 4. LowiACEAE. Fertile stamens five. Lip much larger than the 

 petals, small plants. 



§ 5. MusACEAE. Fertile stamens 5. Lip small resembling the petals, 

 large plants. 



§ 1. ZINGIBEEACEAE. 



Staminodes 2 broad and petaloid. ■ 

 Spike or panicle terminal on a leafy stem. 



Filament long slender, longer than the corolla. 



Lip adnate to filament above the corolla ••• 1. Jjlobba. 



Lip free lobes entire ... ••• ... ... 2. Hedychium. 



Lip adnate to corolla at base, lobes toothed ... 3. Odotltychiwm. 



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