334 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



complicate, connective broad, not crested, inflorescence as in 

 Curcuma. 



(b) Lateral staminodes small or none. 



5. ZINGIBER. Leafy stem elongated, spikes usually radical, 

 bracts single-flowered, filamemt short, anther cells parallel, 

 connective usually produced into a long appendage. 



6. COSTUS. Stem and inflorescence as in the last, filament 

 petal oid, anther adnate to its middle, cells parallel. 



7. ALPINIA. Leafy stem long, with a terminal lax spike 

 or panicle of flowers, filament long, connective various. 



TRIBE 2. MARANTE^;. Sepals free or loosely cohering, 

 anther one-celled, staminodes connate into a 5 or 6-lobed inner 

 perianth, of which one lobe is lip-shaped, two hooded, and one 

 bears the auther. 



8. PHETNIUM. Stemless (in the species here given), spike 

 compound from the side of the petiole, corolla tube cylindric, 

 staminal tube longer, segments unequal, one bearing the one- 

 celled anther on its margin. 



TRIBE 3. MUSE.E. Sepals free or connate in a split spathe, 

 stamens 5, free, anthers linear, 2-celled, staminode one or 

 none, style central, stigma 2 or 3-partite. 



9. MUSA. Stem subarboreous, simple, leaves very large, 

 flower spike erect, terminal, the flowers in clusters enclosed in 

 a large spathaceous bract, calyx tube short. 



Note. Except in the last tribe, the following peculiarities are 

 noticeable in this order, all of which tend to make the flowers of 

 many species more conspicuous. 



1. The calyx, petals, and petaloid staminodes are frequently all 

 coloured. 



2. The central staminode (lip) is frequently larger than the rest, 

 often 3-lobed, and sometimes coloured difierently. 



3. The bracts are very conspicuous, often delicately coloured, 

 particularly those which are without flowers, and which form the 

 top of the raceme. This part is then called the coma. 



1. GLOBBA. 



* G. "bulbifera (G. marantina, D.). 1 2 to 1 8 inches high, leaves 

 bifarious, broad lanceolate with waved margins ; spike terminal, 

 bracts ovate cordate, with a small bulb in the axil; flowers 

 yellow, fragrant, long-tubed, anthers with yellow bifid spread- 

 ing wings. 



