232 SCITAMINEQ. [Groppa. 
tardily dehiscent. Seeds many, small, ovoid, with a small white 
lacerate aril.—Species 60 to 70, in iit a, » aera: China, Philip- 
pines and New Guinea. 
G. orixensis, Roxb, in Asiat. Res. xi, 358; Fl. Ind.i,78; F.. 
B. I. vi. 201 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 1037. 
Herb with perennial rootstock and annual leafy stems, 1-2 ft. high. 
Leaves 8-10 in. long, glabrous beneath. Panicle long, narrow ;- 
lower branches 2-3-fid. at tip; bulbils none; bracts small, deci- 
duous. flowers deep-orange. Corolla segments staminodes and lip 
equal in length. Lip spotted with reddish brown at the throat. 
Capsule warted. 
Dehra Dun and on the Siwalik range. Flowers during the rains.— 
Distris.: Bengal, Chota Nagpur, Bihar, Sikkim, N. Circars- 
(Roxburgh). 
2, HEDYCHIUM, Koenig; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 225. 
Herbs with perennial horizontal tuberous rootstocks ; root-fibres: 
not much thickened; stem elongate, leafy. Leaves distichous, 
oblong or lanceolate. Flowers usually in terminal spikes ; bracts- 
oblong, subcoriaceous, 1-or more-flowered. Calyx tubular, 
3-toothed. Corolla-tube, long, slender ; lobes equal, linear, spread-- 
ing. Perfect stamen 1; filament long, slender, anther-cells con- 
tiguous, connective not produced; lateral staminodes linear or 
cuneate-oblong; lip large, bifid. Ovary 3-celled; style long, 
filiform, stigma subglobose; ovules many, superposed on axile 
placentas. Fruit a globose 3-valved capsule. Seeds many, small,. 
with a lacerate aril.—Species 38, chiefly Indian and Malaya. 
H.coronarium, Koen. in Retz. Obs. Bot. fasc. wi, 173; 
Roxb. Fl, Ind. i, 10 ; F. B. I. VI, 225 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 1039 ; Cooke 
Fl. Bomb. wi, 728. 
A tall herb with erect leafy stems, 4-6 ft. high; rootstock 4-2 in. in 
diam., fleshy, jointed. Leaves sessile, 9-14 in. long, lanceolate, 
finely acuminate, glabrous above, glabrous or sparsely pubescent 
beneath; base narrowed; sheath smooth; ligule membranous, 
Flowers pure white, fragrant, in dense oblong spikes 4-8 in. long ; 
bracts closely imbricate, 3-4-fid. ; the outer ones 14-2 in. long, ovate, 
obtuse ; bracteoles 3, membranous. Calyx 1-14 in. long, cylindric, 
green, shorter than the bracts. Corolla-tube 3 in. long; segments- 
half as long as the tube, reflexed. Lateral staminodes 14-2-in. long;. 
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