298 CXXXIV. SCITAMINE* (bAKER). 



usually appendiculate at the back. Capsule ovoid or globose, trisulcate, 

 splitting between the ribs. Seeds subglobose, with a small aril and 

 thick straight embryo. — Terrestrial or epiphytic herbs. Flowers usually 

 in dense spikes at the end of long leafy stems, rarely on peduncles pro- 

 duced direct from the rhizome ; outer bracts suborbicular or ovate, firm 

 in texture ; bracteoles oblong, membranous. Lip large and showy, 

 •white or red, with usually a blotch of yellow in the middle. 



Species about 30, cosmopolitan in the Tropical zone, concentrated in America. 



Spike terminal on the leafy stem, of which the nodes are 

 produced. 

 Ligules large. 



1. C. phyllocephaluSy Schumann in Engl. Jahrh. xv. 420. Leafy 

 stem terete, glabrous, very slender, under a foot long. Leaves obovate- 

 oblong, 5-G in. long, about 2 in. broad at the middle, acuminate, 

 narrowed to the base, glabrous on both sides ; petiole very short ; 

 ligule large, obliquely truncate, membranous, subacute, mucronate 

 below the apex. Spike many-flowered, 2 in. diam. ; bracts furnished 

 with a leafy point. Calyx above J in. long ; lobes very short. Corolla- 

 lobes oblong-lanceolate, IJ in. long. Lip obovate-cuneate, 2 in. long 

 And broad ; petaloid filament much shorter than the lip, J-| in. broad; 

 anther-cells J in. long. 



Iiow^er Guinea. Angola : banks of the Quango River, Teu-scz, 508. 

 No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 



2. C. ligularis. Baker. Leafy stem 4 ft. long. Leaves oblanceo- 

 late-oblong, acuminate, G- 8 in^ long, about 3 in. broad above the middle, 



