'"00 CXXXIV. SCITAMINE-« (bAKER). [CostltS. 



subcordate at the base, minutely pubescent above, clothed with grey 

 silky hairs beneath ; ligule with spreading hairs. Spike terminal,, 

 globose or oblong, 8-4 in. diam. ; bracts densely imbricate, nearly 1 in., 

 long. Calyx much exserted, cut one-third down, glabrous, ciliate. 

 Corolla-lobes lanceolate, 1 in. or more long. Lip obovate, undulate on 

 the upper margin, 2 in. long; process of fertile stamen lanceolate,, 

 acuminate, shorter than the lip. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : in forest near Batanga, Braun ! 



Itovrer Guinea. Lower Congo, Laurent ! 



No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 



6. C. trachyphyllus, Schuinann in Engl. Jahrh. xv. 420. Leafjr 

 stem long, moderately stout. Leaves oblong, acute, 10-12 in. long, 

 3-4 in. broad at the middle, cuneate at the base, firm in texture, pubes- 

 cent beneath ; petiole very short ; ligule short, truncate. Spikes many- 

 flowered, oblong, terminal, 3 in. long, 2 in. diam. ; outer bracts orbicular, 

 glabrous, 1 J in. broad. Calyx funnel-shaped, J in. long ; teeth \-\ as 

 long as the tube. Corolla-lobes oblong, acute, l^-lj in. long. Lip 

 obovate, 2J-3 in. long, 1 J in. broad, white or tinged with rose-red ; 

 petaloid filament about 1 in. shorter than the lip, obtuse ; anther J in. 

 long, placed half-way down the filament. 



lO'lIe ^and. British East Africa: Niamniam ; Mbrwole River, Schtoeirtjfurth, 

 ser. iii. 206 ! Yuru River, Schiveinfurth, 3268 ! 



7. C. nudicaulis, Baker. Epiphytic. Stem naked, under 1 ft. 

 long, bearing at its tip a dense rosette of unequal, oblanceolate-oblong, 

 acute leaves, the longest 4 in. long, under 2 in. broad at the middle, 

 moderately firm, glabrous on both sides. Spike many-flowered, oblong, 

 sessile at the tip of the stem in the centre of the rosette of leaves ; bracts 

 small, oblong. Calyx not protruding beyond the bract. Corolla-lobes 

 oblanceolate-oblong, IJ in. long. Lip 2 in. long and broad, pale red; 

 process of fertile stamen about 1 in. shorter than the lip ; anther-cells 

 I in. long. 



Ziower Guinea. Gaboon : Gaboon River, Mann, 1033 ! 



8. C. englerianns, Schumann in Engl. Jahrh. xv. 410, t. 13. 

 Stems very short, arising from a long slender creeping rootstock, 

 bearing only a single large membranous sheath-leaf and a single deve- 

 loped leaf. Leaf broadly oblong, 3-5 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, firm, 

 glabrous, obtuse. Flowers 2-3 in a spike at the tip of the stem; 

 bracts oblong-lanceolate, scariose, under 1 in. long. Calyx J-| in, long, 

 subcylindrical, minutely 3-toothed. Corolla-lobes oblanceolate, oblong, 

 above 1 in. long. Lip obovate, white with a patch of yellow in the 

 middle, 1^-2 in. long, under 1 in. broad; petaloid filament \ in. broad; 

 anther very small. — N. E. Br. in Card. Chron. 1892, xii. 789. C. uni- 

 folius, N. E. Br. in Card. Chron. 1892, xii. 696. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : in forest west of Barombi-La-Mbu, on rocks on the 

 bed of a river, Freuss, 461. Gold Coast, cultivated specimen ! 



Introduced into cultivation by Messrs. Sander, of St. Albans, in 1891. 



