232 SCITAMINE(E. [ GLOBBA. 



tardily dehiscent. Seeds many, small, ovoid, with a small white 

 lacerate ajril. Species 60 to 70, in India, Malaya, China, Philip- 

 pines and New "Guinea. 



G. orixensis, Eoxb. in Asiat. Res. xi, 358 ; Fl. Ind. i, 78 ; F. 

 B. I. vi. 201 ; Prain Beng. PL 1037. 



Herb with perennial rootstock and annual leafy stems, 1-2 ft. high. 

 Leaves 8-10 in. long, glabrous beneath. Panicle long, narrow;, 

 lower branches 2- 3 -fid. at tip ; bulbils none ; bracts small, deci- 

 duous. Flowers deep-orange. Corolla segments staminodes and lip 

 equal in length. Lip spotted with reddish brown at the throat. 

 Capsule warted. 



Dehra Dun and on the Siwalik range. Flowers during the rains. 

 DISTHIB. : Bengal, Chota Nagpur, Bihar, Sikkim, N. Circars 

 (Roxburgh). 



2. HEDYCHIUM Koenig ; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 225. 



Herbs with perennial horizontal tuberous rootstocks ; root-fibres 

 not much thickened ; stem elongate, leafy. Leaves distichous, 

 oblong or lanceolate. Flowers usually in terminal spikes ; bracts 

 oblong, subcoriaceous, 1-or more-flowered. Calyx tubular, 

 3-toothed. Corolla-tube, long, slender ; lobes equal, linear, spread- 

 ing. Perfect stamen 1 ; filament long, slender, anther-cells con- 

 tiguous, connective not produced ; lateral staminodes linear or 

 cuneate-oblong ; lip large, bifid. Ovary 3-celled ; style long, 

 filiform, stigma sub globose ; ovules many, superposed on axile 

 placentas. Fruit a globose 3-valved capsule. Seeds many, small, 

 with a lacerate aril. Species 38, chiefly Indian and Malaya. 



H. coronarium, Koen. in Eetz. Obs. Bot. fasc. Hi, 173; 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i, 10 ; F. B. I. VI , 225 ; Prain Beng. PL 1039 ; Cooke 

 FL Bomb, ii, 728. 



A tall herb with erect leafy stems, 4-6 ft. high ; rootstock J-2 in. in 

 diam., fleshy, jointed. Leaves sessile, 9-14 in. long, lanceolate, 

 finely acuminate, glabrous above, glabrous or sparsely pubescent 

 beneath ; base narrowed ; sheath smooth ; ligule membranous. 

 Flowers pure white, fragrant, in dense oblong spikes 4-8 in. long ; 

 bracts closely imbricate, 3-4-fld. ; the outer ones l|-2 in. long, ovate, 

 obtuse ; bracteoles 3, membranous. Calyx 1-1J in. long, cylindric, 

 green, shorter than the bracts. Corolla-tube 3 in. long ; segments 

 half as long as the tube, reflexed'. Lateral staminodes 1J-2 in. long,. 



