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* Ovary 1-celled; placentas 3, parietal. 



1. MANTISIA. Scape leafless ; corolla-tube long ; lateral staminodes 

 filiform or spathulate, in the middle of the elongate filament, opposite, 

 spreading. 



2. GLOBBA. Stem leafy; corolla-tube long ; lateral staminodes petal- 

 like ; filament slender. 



3. HEMIORCHIS. Corolla-tube short; lateral staminodes petal-like; 

 filament short. 



** Ovary 3-celled ; placentas axile. 



t Lateral staminodes broad. 



Connective spurred at the base. 



4. ROSCOEA. Flowering stem leafy ; bracts 1-fld. ; filament long; capsule 

 subdehiscent. Flowers purple or white. 



5. CAUTLEYA. Flowering stem leafy; bracts 1-fld.; filament long; 

 capsule dehiscent with recurved valves. Flowers yellow. 



6. CURCUMA. Flowering stem leafy or not ; bracts cucullate, several-fid., 

 forming a cone-like spike ; filament petaloid; capsule subdehiecent. 



Connective very broad or crested, not spurred. 



7. GASTROCHILUS. Flowering stem short or erect; filament short; 

 connective broad not crested. 



8. K^EMPFERIA. Flowering stem leafy or not ; filament very short ; 

 connective crested. 



9. HITCHENIA. Flowering stem leafy; filament long, complicate; 

 connective broad not crested. Inflor. as in Curcuma. 



Connective very narrow, neither spurred nor crested. 



1Q. HEDYCHIUM. Flowering stem leafy ; filament long, slender. 



ft Lateral staminodes small or 0, rarely narrow and adnate to the lip. 



Flowers in a dense-fid, cone-like spike. 



11. AMOMUM. Flowering scapes usually leafless; filament short; 

 anther-cells diverging above; connective dilated crested or 2-lobed, rarely 

 simple. 



12. ZINGIBEB. Spikes terminating leafy stems or leafless scapes; 

 filament short, anther-cells parallel, connective usually produced into a 

 long appendage. 



13. COSTUS. Spikes terminating leafy stems or leafless scapes ; filament 

 petaloid, anther adnate to its middle, cells parallel. 



Flowers in lax-fld. spikes or panicles. 



11. CYPIJOSTIGMA. Scape leafless, panicle loosely flowering from the 

 base upwards ; filament short, connective with a o-lobed crest. 



15. ELETTARIA. Scape leafless, panicle loosely flowering from the base 

 upwards; filament very short; anther-cells parallel, connective not dilated. 



16. ELETTARIOPSIS. Scape leafless; spike simple; bracts small; fila- 

 ment short, anther petaloid. 



17. SCAPHOCHLAMYS. Scape leafless ; spike simple ; bracts large, per- 

 sistent ; filament short, connective petaloid. 



