Zinyiber.] OXLIX. SCITAMINE^;. (J. G. Baker.) 249 



linear ascending, bracts ovate. Eosc. Scit. PI. t. 90 ; Wall. Cat. 6560. 

 Dymczewiezia capitata, Horan. Prodr. 26. 



CENTEAL and EASTERN HIMALAYAS, from KTJMAON to SIKKIM the KHASIA 

 HILLS & SILHET. 



Leafy stem 3-4 ft. Leaves 12-18 by 1-1| in., tapering gradually to the point, 

 erecto-portent, usually pubescent beneath. Spike sessile at the end of the leafy 

 stem, dense-fld., erect, oblong or oblong-cylindrical, 3-6 in., 1^-2 in. diam. ; bracts 

 closely imbricate, subcoriaceous, 1 in., green with a narrow brown edge. Corolla' 

 tube as long as the bract; segments 1 in., pale yellow. Lip pale yellow, unspotted, 

 midlobe orbicular etuarginate f in. broad, basal auricles large, oblong, obtuse, 

 bright red. Capsule bright red, the size of a small olive; valves ovate. Seeds 

 black, shining, aril large lacerated white. 



Var. Z. ELATUM, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 57 (sp.). A more tropical form, with taller 

 stems, stouter spikes and larger flowers. Rose. Self. PL t. 91. Dymczewiezia 

 elata, Horan. Prodr. 26. 



24. Z. marginatum, Roxb. in Asiat. Res. xi. 349 ;Fl. Ind. i. 57 ? 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate spreading, bracts oblong obtuse. Dymczewiezia 

 marginata, Horan. Prodr. 26 ? 



KHASIA HILLS ; Umwai, alt. 3000 ft., Clarke. . 



Leafy stem 3-4 ft. Leaves 4-6 by 1 in. ; ligule, very large, lanceolate, brown. 

 Spike terminal, sessile, 1-2 in., under \ in. diam. ; rachis very hairy ; bracts % in., 

 closely imbricate, hairy, brown when dried, obtuse, 1-fld. Corolla and lip not seen. 

 < Roxburgh's description is very brief, and he gives no locality. Blume and Miquel 

 give the species as Javan, and cite for it Lampuzium minus, Rumph. Hort. Amboiu. 

 v. 148 tab. 64, fig. 2. 



/ IMPEBFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



22. Z. (Lampuzium) near ODOBIFEBUM, Blume Enum. i. 14. Leafy stem stout 

 several feet long, leaves 6-8 in. oblong-lanceolate, peduncle 6-8 in. erect, spike 5-6 

 in. long 2 in. diam. dense-fld., bracts closely imbricate ovate subacute glabrous lower 

 1 in., bracteole 1 in. complicate, flower not seen. Andamans, on Mount Haniot, 

 Prain 59. 



23. Z. (Lampuzium) near COEOLLINUM, Hance inJourn.Bot. 1880, 301. Leafy 

 stem long, leaves 10-12 by l|-2 in. lanceolate glabrous, spike dense-fld. a foot long 

 3 in. diam., bracts 1^-2 in. subcoriaceous oblong obtuse glabrous, bracteoles 1 in., 

 complicate; flower not seen. Great Cocos island, Andaman group, Praia 713. 



13. COSTUS, Linn. 



Rootstock tuberous, horizontal. Leafy stem long. Leaven oblong; 

 sheaths broad. Spike dense-fld., globose or ovoid, usually terminal, 

 rarely produced direct from the rootstock on a short peduncle. Calyx- 

 tube short, infundibular ; teeth ovate. Corolla-tube not longer than the 

 calyx ; segments large, oblong, subequal. Lateral staminodes or minute. 

 Lip large, obovate, margins incurved. Filament forming with the con- 

 nective an oblong petaloid process, in the middle of which are placed the 

 contiguous linear anther-cells. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules many, superposed ; 

 style filiform ; stigma with a semilunar foveole, ciliated round the margin^ 

 Capsule globose or ovoid, finally dehiscing on one side between the ribs. 

 Seeds obovoid or subglobose, aril short. Species 25; tropics of both 

 hemispheres. 



1. C. speciosuSj Smith in Trans. Linn. Soc. i. 249 ; spike ovoid or 

 oblong terminal on the leafy stem. Roxb. in Asiat. Res. xi. 349 ; Sort. 



