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230 SCITAMINE@®,. ee 
free or connate. Stamens only 1 perfect, the rest replaced by 
‘~petaloid staminodes, or 5 perfect,and a sixth imperfect or obsolete ; 
anthers linear, 2-celled, rarely of one cell on the margin of a peta- 
loid connective. Ovary inferior, 3-rarely 2-or l-celled; style 
-usually slender, with 2 short stylodes crowning the ovary, stigma 
entire or subentire ; ovules usually many, axile, rarely parietal, 
-anatropous. Fruit a loculicidally 3-valved capsule or indehiscent 
and membranous or fleshy, usually crowned by the remains of the . 
-perianth. Seeds often arillate, albumen floury, embryo smal]l.— 
‘Species 400-500, chiefly tropical. 
Stamen only one perfect, others reduced to 
staminodes or wanting :— 
Anther 2-celled ; calyx tubular or spathace- 
ous; style slender, embraced below the 
stigma by the anther :— 
Ovary 1-celled; placentas 3, parietal ; 
cor-tube long ; flowers yellow . . 1. GLoBBa, 
Ovary 3-celled; placentas axile :— 
Lateral staminodes broad :— 
Connective not spurred at the base ; ; 
cor-tube long, slender :— 
Filament short ; connective broad, 
crested ; stigma turbinate . * K@MPFERIA. 
Filament long, narrow ; connective 
very narrow, not crested ; stigma 
subglobose : ‘ : . 2. HEDYCHIUM. 
Connective spurred at the base; 
cor-tube funnel-shaped ; stigma 2- 
lipped, the lips ciliate; bracts 
forming a cone-like spike . . 3 CURCUMA. 
Lateral staminodes small or none, 
rarely narrow and adnate to the 
lip ; cor-tube cylindric :— 
Flowers in a dense cone-like spike :— 
Filament short; anther-cells con- 
tiguous, parallel; connective 
produced as a narrow appendage 
as long as the anther; stigma 
small, subglobose ; spikes: usually 
