226 CXLIX. SCITAMINEJJ. (J. G. Baker.) [Hedychium. 



Throughout India from the HIMALAYAS to CEYLON and MALACCA, ascending to 

 4000 ft. in the Khasia Hills, and 6000 ft. in Ceylon. DISTRIB. Malay Islands. 



RootstocTc 1 in. thick. Stem 4-6 ft. Leaves often above a foot by 35 in., 

 usually pubescent beneath. Spike -|-1 ft. ; outer bracts 1-|- 2 by 1 in., at first green, 

 brown in age. Calyx green, cylindric, shorter than the bract. Flowers fragrant, 

 in the type pure white or tinged with yellow. Corolla-tube 3 in. ; segments linear, 

 reflexing, half as long as the tube ; lateral staminodes 1^-2 in. by about -| in. ; lip 

 1^-2 in. broad, narrowed suddenly to a short claw, short lobes rounded ; filament 

 red ; anther about - in. Capsule oblong, glabrous, orange inside. Seeds with a 

 crimson aril. 



Var. H. CHRYSOLETTCTJM, Hook. Sot. Mag. t. 4516 (sp.); lip white with a large 

 yellow patch in the centre. Lindl. # Paxt. Fl. Gard. i. 110, t. 77. 



Var. H. MAXIMUM, Rose. Scit. PL t. 52 (sp.); leafy stem taller than in the type, 

 flowers pure white larger, staminodes f-1 in. broad, lip 2-2^ in. broad. Lindl. in 

 Sot. Reg. t. 1022; Horan. Prodr. 24. 



Var. H. PLAVESCENS, Carey in Rose. Scit. PL t. 50 (sp.); stature of the type, 

 flowers sulphur yellow. Wight Ic. t. 2008-9 ; H. flavum, Sot. Mag. t. 2378 (not of 

 t. 3039). H. sulphureum, Wall. mss. 



Var. H. UROPHYLLTJM, Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 1785 (sp.) ; stature of the type, 

 flowers bright yellow. Horan. Prodr. 24. 



Var. H. PLAVUM, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 1; FL Ind. i. 12 (sp.) ; dwarfer than the 

 type, flowers smaller bright yellow. Rose. Scit. PL t. 49 ; Bot. Nag. t. 3039 ; Lodd. Sot. 

 Cat. t. 604; Wall. Cat. 6542 ; Kew Journ. Bot. v. (1853), 326; Horan. Prodr. 24. 



2. H. Elwesii, Baker ; leaves oblong nearly glabrous beneath, spike 

 dense-fid., bracts large oblong 4-5-fld., calyx shorter than the bract, 

 flowers bright yellow, staminodes lip linear, broad shallowly bifid, stamen 

 as long as the lip. 



KHASIA HILLS ; Bishop's fall, near Shillong, alt. 4000 ft., Mwes. 



Leaves 1 ft. or more, by 3 in. Spike ^ ft. ; bracts green, subcoriaceous, 224- in. > 

 rather diverging, not so closely imbricate as in H. coronarium. Corolla-tTibe 2-| in. ; 

 segments above 1 in. ; staminodes resembling the segments in size and shape ; lip 

 1 in. broad, narrowed suddenly to a broad claw ; filament bright red ; anther linear, 

 j in. May be an extreme form of H. coronarium. 



3. H. marginatum, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 75, t. 31 ; 



leaves oblong-lanceolate very hairy beneath, spike short dense-fld., bracts 

 oblong imbricated 1-fld., flowers yellow, staminodes linear, lip small 

 cuneate distinctly clawed shallowly bifid, stamen rather longer than the 

 lip. 



NAGA HILLS ; Kohima, alt. 4500 ft. Clarke-, Griffith (5680), without locality. 



Leaves 1 ft. by 1J-2 in., pale beneath. $pze 3-4 in. ; bracts lf-2 in., not so 

 firm as in If. coronarium, glabrous, with a pale horny margin and a tuft of hairs 

 at the tip. Calyx 1 in. Corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx; segments 1 in,, 

 staminodes resembling the corolla-segments in size and shape; lip 1 in. long, claw 

 long, blade i- in. broad. 



4 H. venustum, Wight Ic. t. 2012; leaves oblong-lanceolate nearly 

 glabrous beneath, spike lax-fid, often cermious, bracts small 1-fld., flowers 

 whitish, calyx exceeding the bract, staminodes linear, lip narrow cuneate 

 deeply bifid distinctly clawed, stameu shorter than the lip. Wall, in Kew 

 Journ. Bot. v. (1853), 328. H. cernuum, Wight Ic. t. 2011. 



NILGHIRI HILLS, Wight. 



Leaves 1 ft. by 3-4 in., obscurely pubescent beneath. Spike 6-9 in., cernuous 



