Order 113. Scitaminecz. 339 



tube and lip each an inch, long, lip obovate, anther crest small, round. 

 Not in D. or G. 



From various species of Amomwn, and from Elettaria cardomomum, 

 cultivated in the S., and sometimes found in gardens in W. India, 

 the cardozaums of commerce are produced, being the dry, mem- 

 branous capsules, full of small black seeds. ElcTii. 



Hedychiu-m, with long and slender filament, and broad lateral 

 staminodes, is only known by H. coronarium, a garden plant, with 

 pure white, fragrant flowers, which R, called the most charming 

 plant of the order. Sontukha, dulaba cliampa. H. makes D.'s H. 

 flavum with large yellow flowers, also called Sontukha, and hema 

 champa, a var. of this. 



Tribe MARANTE^:. 



8. PHRYXIUM. 



P. capitatum. Leaves radical, large, long-petioled, oblong ; 

 flowers in short spikes, scarlet, capsule 3-lobed, seeds warted. 

 Kudale. 



Common in shady jungles of the Konkan (D.). H. has omitted 

 the reference to D. ; but I think there is no doubt that his plant and 

 D.'s are the same. It resembles Canna Indica. I have seen it only in 

 gardens. *P. spicatum, leaf oblong, petiole longer than the blade, 

 spike oblong, one or two inches long ; bracts green, flowers white. 



Konkan, Law (H.). Otherwise only in Pegu. Not in D. or G. 



Canna belongs to a separate tribe, Canneae, in which the 1-celled 

 anther is adnate to the single petaloid filament. C. Indica, Indian 

 shot, one of the commonest of Indian garden plants, deva keli, ndna 

 keli ; leaves large sheathing, flowers scarlet, seeds black, resembling, 

 and eaid to be sometimes used as, shot. 



" Tall Canna lifts his curled brow 

 Erect to heaven." Dr. Darwin. 



Throughout India (If.) ; but does not appear to be wild in W. 

 India. There are various varieties, one of which has yellow 

 flowers. 



Tribe MUSE^. 



9, MUSA. Plantain. 



M. superba. Stem short, leaves petioled, lanceolate, bracts 

 large, roundish, many-flowered, calyx 3-cleft, petals shorter, 

 fruit oblong, dry when ripe, not eatable, full of large black 

 seeds. 



This is the wild plantain, rdn kliela, kandera, common on the 

 Ghauts in the rains. The whole plant dies away to the ground each 

 year. H. has no other hab. than W. Ghauts. 



M. rosacea (M. ornata, D.). From 3 to 5 feet high, leaves petioled, 

 linear oblong, bracts lilac, or pale red ; calyx yellowish, white, 

 5-toothed, fruit oblong, pulpy, much as in N. sapientium. Konkan 

 and Ghauts ; also in the E. Himalayas (-H".). 



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