482 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Herps, UNBRANCHED, witH Opposite ExstTrPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES, 
Alpinia Allughas, 
ScrrAMINE. 
PB idlyin259- 
The Plains. 
Canna indica, 
Hakik, sabbajaya. 
ScITAMINE &. 
F. B. I. vi. 260. 
The Plains, 
cultivated. 
Musa sapientum, 
Plantain, banana, 
Kaila. 
ScITAMINE. 
F. B. I. vi. 262. 
The plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(only found culti- 
vated). 
Iris Aitchisoni, 
TRIDACE®. 
F. B. I. vi. 272. 
The Salt Range, 
3,000 ft. 
Viecary (Aitchison). 
PETALS UNITED. 
oblique at the throat, tubular, 3-toothed, corolla tube cylin- 
dric, usually not longer than the calyx, corolla segments 
1-1 in., greenish-white, linear-oblong, upper usually broader 
and more convex, lip distinctly stalked, 4 in., ovate with 
a broad tip, notched, white, veined with lilac, with a pair 
of awl-shaped reddish glands at the base of the stalk, sta- 
men shorter than the lip, curved, style thread-like, stigma 
nearly round ; fruit $in., orange red, 38-celled ; cultivated. 
The rhizome is used medicinally instead of ginger. 
like the last species, but smaller, leaves narrower, 
calyx longer, lip pink, fruit black, cultivated. The rhizome 
is used as in the last species. 
large, rootstock perennial, tuberous with many fibres, 
stem leafy ; leaves 12 in., oblong, short-pointed ; flowers 
2 in., red and green, in a loose terminal raceme, bracts $ 
in., ovate, green, sepals 8, small, lanceolate, corolla tube 
3-1 in., cylindric, lobes 1 in., green, lanceolate, segments 3, 
lanceolate, outer staminal, segments 8, 14 by 4-4 in., red, 
lanceolate with a broad notched tip, lip rather shorter, 
reflexed, notched, style united to staminal tube below, 
stigma round; capsule 4-3 in., tubercled, round, seeds 
black, the size of a pea. The seed supplies a purple dye, 
the root is used as a diaphoretic and diuretic. 
large, tree-like, stem succulent of leaf sheaths, eylin- 
drical, shoots springing from the root; leaves 4-5 ft., 
oblong, bright green above, paler beneath ; flowers 13 in. 
long, yellowish-white, on a drooping spike, male above, 
female below, bracts 2, forming a spathe, lower 6-8 in., 
upper shorter, ovate, reddish, calyx 1-14 in., 5-toothed 
at the tip, slit one side to the base, corolla shorter than 
the calyx, wrapped round the stamens and style, stamens 5, 
perfect, 6th obsolete, filaments stout, thread-like, style 
thread-like, stigma round, 6-lobed ; fruit 4-5 in., oblong, 
8-angled, fleshy, sweet when ripe, yellow, no seeds in 
the cultivated form.. Much cultivated for its fruit. 
small, perennial, rootstock is a corm, 2 in. long, ovoid, 
coats brown, polished, stem 6-18 in. long, slender, 1-8- 
flowered ; leaves 6-18 by 4 in., one inside the other on 
opposite sides of the base of the stem, slender, flat, sword- 
like ; flowers lilac or yellow, 24 in. long, one enclosed in a 
leaf-like spathe, divided deeply into 2 long narrow lanceo- 
