200 CXLIX. SOITAMINE2E. (J. G. Baker.) 



18. ALPINIA. Spike or panicle terminating a tall leafy stem ; filament 

 long, connective shorter than the anther or longer and dilated. 



19. RHYNCANTHUS. Spike terminating a leafy stem ; filament long, 

 connective not dilated. 



Tribe II. Xftaranteae. Calyx of free sepals, rarely loosely cohering. 

 Stamen 1 ; anther 1-celled, laterally adnate to a lobe of the perianth ; 

 staminodes petaloid, connate into a 5-6-lobed inner perianth, of which 1 or 

 2 lobe s are lateral, 1 (the lip) anticous ; of the 2 or 3 dorsal one or two are 

 hooded and another bears the anther. Ovary 1-3-celled, cells 1-ovuled; 

 style excentric incurved or involute. Embryo curved. 



20. CLINOGYNH. Stem leafy with terminal panicled scattered flowers ; 

 panicle with convolute deciduous sheaths at the forks; bracts deciduous. 



21. PHRYNITJM. Stem with one broad leaf, and a lateral head or spike 

 of flowers, or spike radical ; bracts and bracteoles persistent. 



Tribe III. Cannese. Sepals free. Stamen 1 ; anther 1-celled, 

 adnate to lateral petaloid filament ; staminodes 4. Ovary 3-celled, cells 

 many-ovuled; style flattened ; stigma terminal. Embryo straight. 



22. CANNA. 



Tribe IV. IVIuseae. Sepals free or connate in a split spathe. Stamens 

 5, free; anthers linear, 2-celled; staminode 1 or 0. Style central; stigma 

 2-3-fid. Embryo short. 



23. MTJSA. Stem subarboreous, stout, simple; flowers in a stout 

 terminal spike ; calyx tube short. 



24. LOWIA. Stem slender, dichotomously branched ; flowers clustered 

 at the base of a petiole ; calyx tube very long. 



1. MANTISSA, Sims. 



Rhizome short, creeping; leafy stem short. Scape short, sheathed 

 below. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, caudate. Panicle laxly-fld. ; bracts at 

 the forks membranous, coloured. Calyx short, campanulate, obtusely 3- 

 lobed. Coro//<z-tube slender, lobes subequal, ovate ; dorsal erect, concave. 

 Lateral staminodes at or below the middle of the exaerted incurved fila- 

 ment, slender, spathulate ; lip deflexed, 2-fid ; filament long, curved ; anther- 

 cells linear-oblong, broadly winged. Ovary 1-celled ; ovules 3, parietal ; 

 style filiform, placed in a groove of the filament ; stigma turbinate. 

 Capsule globose, dehiscing at the apex. Seeds many, minute, oblong. 

 Species the following. 



1. M. saltatoria* Sims in Bat. Mag. t. 1320, staminodes linear- 

 subulate. Horan. Prodr. 19. Globba saltatoria, Ruse. Scitam. t. 112. G. 

 purpurea, Andr. Sot. Rep. t. 615. G. radicalis, Roxb. in'Asiat. Res. xi. 359; 

 Corom. PI. t. 230. G. subulata, Roxb. Hort. Btng. 2; Fl. Ind. i. 81. 



CHITTAGONG, Roxburgh, Lister. 



Hootstock pereim al. Stems annual, 1-2 ft. Leaves 4-6 in. ; sheath 1-2 in. ; bract- 

 leaves sheathing, oblong. Panicle lax, 3-6 in ; branches simple, usually short and 

 ascending; flowers tew, crowded towards the tips of the branches; bracts ovat^, lilac, 

 i-^ in., lower fiowerle'ss. Calyx campanulate, lilac, iiu.; lobes suborbicular. Corolla- 

 tube twice as long as the calyx ; segments ovate, lilac, -| in., central rather larger 

 and clasping the tilami-nt. Staminodes | in ; lip yellow, cuneate, deeply lobed ; 

 wings ot anther suborbicular. Capsule purple, the size of a small cherry. 



