262. CXIX. SCITAMINEJE. [ Musa. 
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acuminate. Flowers Bom 10 to 20 within each bract, on short dive 
d obe nth (from a wild specimen) pre striate with nume- 
rous parallel hgiteidinal veins, the outer convolute segment about 
lł in. long and 5 lines broad if spread open, shortly 5-lobed, the 3 
outer lobes lanceolate, about 2 lines long, the 2 inner ones oblong and 
er shorter; the lower i 
segment under 1 in. long the outer lobes narrower and more ac 
than males, the i "ed lobes linear; lower inner segment narrow- 
lanceolate, above 4 in. long. Anthers linear but smaller than in the 
males. Style r rather shorter than the outer perianth-segment, € 
each one on a fpes of 1 to 2 in. c RU 2 Straight or Highly in E 
curved, 4 to 5 in. long, 4 to 2 in. iame eeds a 
2 lines diameter, irregularly angular fon — ; pane pacis 
broad concave hilum ; umen very white mealy 
almost ~~ 
Que Mount Elliott; setatis and Rockingham bay, Dallachy. aad dh 8 
figure, whi a: di ge thinks may hav gi pane en from p species appears 
represent the aradisiaca. I fod a and Sola nie! Bde 
seen any Musa n Ada teatia If they | had brought dad Mite: they would surely have 
been mention "à rown, either i in the romus or in his notes on i: eogra- 
graphical distribution of the genus in his Obierratisus on the Botany of Con 
TRIBE 2. ZiNGIBERACEJE.—O uter perianth or calyx 3- We or 
3-lobed or spathaceous; inner perianth or corolla free from it, com- 
bined with the filament into a tube, the limb 3-lobed with sometimes 
2 inner additional lobes or staminodia. One perfect upper stamen 
with a 2-celled anther TE the style, and one large petal- -like 
abellum or lower staminode opposite it and sometimes 2 short linear 
staminodes (stylodes of Horaninow) at the base of the style. 
2. CURCUMA, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx Fus 3-toothed; corolla-tube 
longer than the calyx, the limb of 3 ou r lobes of which the upper 
one is broader than the 2 others, and 2 in inner lobes or staminodes re- 
sembling the 2 outer lower lobes and adnate at the base on their inner 
margins ; to the short broad petal-like filament of the perfect stamen. La- 
bellum broad and petal-like; two short linear staminodes at the base 
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