Amomum.~] CXLIX. SCITAMINE^:. (J. G. Baker.) 243 



1847, t. 52; leaves oblong, spike dense-fid, globose lip orbicular twice as 

 long as the corolla-segments. Cenolophon vitellinum, Horan. Prodr. 36. 



CEYLON ? Hort. Chiswick. 



Leafy stem slender, 2 ft. Leaves 6-8 by 3-4 in., bright green, glabrous. Spike 

 small, shortly peduncled ; bracts green, oblong, in. Calyx and corolla-tube about 

 as long as the bract ; corolla-segments linear-oblong, as long as the tube. Lip 1 in., 

 base spurred, bright yellow, with red veins. Anthers with a large trifid cresD ; cells 

 glabrous, tips diverging. 



48. A. macrostephanum, Baker ; leaves lanceolate base cordate, 

 spike elongate, bracts deciduous, lip obovate-cuneate much longer than the 

 corolla-seguients. 



PERAK ; alt. 500-1000 ft., King's Collector. 



Leafy stem very slender, 4-8 ft. Leaves 1-1J ft. by 2-3 in. thin, glabrous, 

 caudate, narrowed from the middle to the cordate base. Spike 3-4 in. j peduncle 

 long, erect, enveloped in the sheath of the topmost leaf; bracts caducous. Ovary 

 densely villous. Calyx loosely tubular, -| in. Corolla-tube rather longer than the 

 calyx ; segments linear-oblong. Lip 1 in. Filament half as long ; anther glabrous ; 

 crest large, leafy, crisped, lacerate. 



12. ZINOIBER, Adans. 



Rootstock horizontal, tuberous. Leafy stem elongated. Leaves oblong- 

 laiiceolate, clasping the stem by their long sheaths. Spikes usually 

 radical, rarely lateral or terminal on the leafy stem ; peduncle short 

 or long ; bracts persistent, usually single-fld. Calyx cylindric, shortly 3- 

 lobed. Corona-tube cylindric ; segments lanceolate, upper concave. Lateral 

 staminodes or adnate to the obovate-cuneate lip ; filament short ; anther- 

 cells contiguous, crest narrow, as long as the cells. Ovary 3-celled; 

 ovules many, superposed ; style filiform ; stigma small, subglobose. 

 Capsule oblong, finally dehiscing. Seeds large, globose, arillate. Species 

 30, Tropics of Old World. 



Sect. I. Cryptanthium, Horan. Spikes produced direct from the 

 rootstock, very short and dense ; peduncle very short. (Sp. 1-11.) 



* Leaves more or less pubescent beneath. 



1. Z. chrysanthum, Rose. Scit. PI. t. 86; leaves pubescent be- 

 neath, bracts green outer ovate inner lanceolate with a hairy cusp, corolla- 

 segments bright red, lip bright yellow deeply 3-lobed, midlobe orbicular, 

 lateral ovate. Horan. Prodr. 27. Z. ligulatum, Wall. Cat. 6566, non 

 Roxb. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from KUMAON, ascending to 5500 ft., to SIKKIM and 

 ASSAM. 



Leafy stem 6-8 ft. Leaves 12 by 2-3 in., oblong-lanceolate. Spike very dense, 

 globose or oblong ; peduncle very short ; inner bracts 1^-2 in. broad. Corolla- 

 tube l-2 in.; segments 1 in., lanceolate. Lip 1 in., -unspotted; basal auricles 

 largest of any species, hence the lip is as broad as long. Stamen shorter than the 

 lip. Capsule oblong. Seeds brown, nearly as large as a pea, wrapped to the top in 

 a .white membranous aril. Z. FLAVESCENS, Link. ; Dietr. Sp. i. 54, is probably a 

 form of this, but the description is very incomplete. 



2. Z. rubens, Roxb. in Asiat. Res. xi. 348 ; Hort. Beng. 1 ; Fl. Ind. 

 i. 53; leaves pubescent beneath, bracts bright red outer ovate inner 



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