Alpinia."] CXLIX. SCITAMINB.E. (J. G. Baker.) 257 



PERAK, alt. 2-3000 ft., King's Collector. DISTRIB. Java. 



Leafy stem 6-8 ft. Leaves above 1 ft., 2|-3 in. broad, very scabrous. Panicle 

 1 ft., erect, with a few short spreading compound branches at the base; branchlets 

 about 1 in., bearing several pedicelled waxy white flowers ; bracts minute. Calyx 

 i in. ; teeth minute. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx ; segments oblong, i in. 

 Lip not longer than the corolla-segments. Anther-cells divaricate upwards, the 

 truncate connective scarcely overtopping them. Capsule globose, in. diam. 



Subgen. IV. G-eostachys, Baker. Anther not crested. Suds enclosed 

 in large bracteoles. Spike radical. 



16. A. 1 decurvata ? Baker ; leaves lanceolate, racemes not secund. 

 PERAK; Larut, alt. 3-4000 ft., King's Collector. 



Leafy stem 4-5 ft. Leaves 12-15 by 1-lj in., narrowed to a petiole 1 in. long. 

 Racemes 6 in., lax, decurved ; peduncle short, slender, erect, hidden by the large 

 imbricate green bract-leaves; pedicels deflexed, in.; bracteoles 1 in., green, 

 oblong-navicular, acute, persistent. Ovary oblong, shortly peduncled within the 

 bracteole. Calyx \ , in., spathaceous. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx ; segments 

 linear-oblong, \ in. Lip obovate, longer than the corolla-segments. " Flowers 

 bright yellow, tinged with red. Fruit glossy, dark red." 



17. A. ? secunda, Baker; leaves oblong-lanceolate, racemes secund. 

 PERAK, alt. 3-4000 ft., King's Collector, 8047. 



Nearly allied to A. ? decurvata, with which it entirely agrees in habit and in the 

 flower being enclosed in large persistent oblong-navicular green bracteoles. Leaves 

 6-8 by 2 in.; petiole short. Raceme simple, lax-fld., secund, deflexed; pedicels 

 cernuous, in. ; bracteoles under 1 in. Calyx cylindric, spathaceous, in. " Flower 

 light yellow. Fruit deep red." 



19. RHYNCHANTHUS, Hook, f. 



Rootstock tuberous ; fibres stout, hairy. Stem leafy. Leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate. Spike terminal. Calyx cylindric, minutely toothed. Corolla- 

 tube long, subcylindric ; segments ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Lateral 

 staminodes obsolete ; lip nearly obsolete ; filament long linear, margins 

 incurved, tip filiform ; anther-cells contiguous, not crested. Ovary 

 3-celled : ovules many, superposed ; style filiform ; stigma small, tarbinate. 

 Capsule, and seeds not seen. 



R. long-iflorus, HooTc.f. in Bot. Mag. t. 6861. 



BURMA (Hort. Low), 



Rootstock ovoid, green, 1-1| in. diam. Leafy stem l-|-2 ft. Leaves 6-8 by 

 1^-2 in. Spike 4-6 in., sessile at the end of the stem ; bracts 2 to each flower, 

 linear, green, 1-1| in., wrapped round the calyx-tube. CoroMa-tube l-2 in. ; 

 segments 1 in. Stamen as long as the corolla-tube. 



20. CLINOSYNE, Salisb. 



Rootstock tuberous or sublignose. Stems leafy, copiously dichoto- 

 mously branched. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate. Panicle lax-fld. 

 terminal ; flowers in pairs ; bracts long, narrow, firm. Sepals short, free. 

 Petals narrow, connivent. Staminal tube cylindric; segments obovate, 

 petaloid, unequal; anther 1-celled, adnate to the margin of one 

 segment. Ovn.ry 3-celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; style adnate below to the 

 staminal tube, above free, hooked ; stigma capitate. Fruit indehiscent, 

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