Hitchenia.} CXLIX. SCITAMINEJS. (J. G. Baker.) 225 



fibres. Leafy stem 3-4 ft. Leaves oblong, 1-1* ft. by 5-6 in., narrowed to the 

 base, often tinged red-brown. Spike % ft. ; bracts 1 in., green, obovate-cuneate, 

 spreading in tbe upper third, those of the coma longer, whitish. Flowers yellow ; 

 corolla-tube slender, 1| iu. ; expanded liinb 1 in. diam. ; staminodes oblong, ^ in. j 

 lip % in. diam., deeply bitid ; stamen shorter than the corolla-segments. 



3. H. Carey ana, Benth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 643 ; bracts all flowering, 

 corolla-tube little longer than the bract, segments linear, staminodes 

 minute, lip cuneate with a long claw, filament long. Curcuma Careyana, 

 Wall. Gat. 6595. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA, subtropical region. KHASIA HILLS, ASSAM, CACHAB, 

 SILHET and MANIPUB. 



Stem 4 ft. Leaves oblong, 1-2 ft. by 4-5 in. , narrowed grad ually from the 

 middle to the base. Spike 6-8 in. ; bracts 1-1 in., closely imbricate, obovate- 

 cuneate, squarrosej bracteoles 1 in., lanceolate. Flowers purple; corolla-segments 

 i in. ; staminodes minute, obovate-cuneate, emarginate ; lip f in., cuneate, with a 

 long claw and a small bifid cusp ; filiform filament \ in. Capsule small, green, 

 oblong -trigonous. Resembles H. glauca in habit, but differs so much in structure 

 that probably it should form, a different genus. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



4. H. MUSACEA, Baker; stemless, leaves like Musa in texture, 1 ft. by 6-8 in., 

 oblong, base rounded, petiole as long as the blade, spike central, peduncle \ ft. long, 

 bracts l^-lj in. orbicular coriaceous slightly squarrose each several-fld., flowers 

 withered and imperfect. Curcuma musacea, Wall. Cat. 6596. Singapore, Wallicli. 

 Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. 



10. HEDYCHIUIVX, Kamig. 



Rootstock horizontal, tuberous ; root-fibres not much thickened. Stem, 

 elongate, leafy. Leaves distichous, oblong or lanceolate. Flowers sub- 

 solitary or in terminal spikes ; bracts oblong, subcoriaceous, one- or more-fld. 

 Calyx tubular, 3 dentate. (7on>77a-tube long, slender; segments linear, 

 equal, spreading. Lateral staminodes linear or oblong-cuneate ; filament 

 narrow ; anther-cells contiguous, connective not produced ; lip large, bifid. 

 Ovary 3-celled ; ovules many, superposed ; style long, filiform, stigma 

 subglobose. Capsule globose, 3-valved. Seeds many, small, aril lacerated. 

 India and Malay Islands. 



SECT. I. Gandasulium* Horan. Stamen never much longer than 

 the lip. 



* Leaves more or less pubescent beneath. 



1. XX. coronariunij Koenig in Retz Obs. iii. 73; leaves oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate, spike dense-fid., bracts large oblong imbricate 3-4-fld., 

 flowers white or tinged with yellow, staminodes oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 lip broad shallowly bifid distinctly clawed, stamen as long as or rather 

 longer than the lip. Roxb. in Asiat. Res. xi. 325 ; Hort. Beng. 1 ; Fl. Ind. i. 10 ; 

 Ed. Watt. # Carey, i. 9 ; Rose, in Trans. Linn. Soc. viii. 343,. t. 20, f. 6 ; Scit. 

 PI t. 51 Bot. Mag. t. 708 ; Smith Exot. Fl. ii. t. 107 ; Blume Enum. Fl. 

 Jav. i. 56 ; Wight Ic. t. 2010 ; Wall. Cat. 6539, in Kew Journ. v. (1853), 325 ; 

 Thw. 'Enum. 319. H. spicatum, Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 653, not of Hamilt. H. 

 Gandasulium, Prophetas and album, Herb. Hamilt. Hedychium, Griff. 

 Notul. iii. 419 (the 2nd species.) Rumph. Amboin. t. 69, fig. 3. 



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