'CosTus.] SCITAMINECS. 237 



out India, wild or cultivated, extending to the Malay Pen. and 

 Islands, also in China. It is often grown in gardens within the 

 area of this flora. The tubers are employed in perfumery and in 

 Hindu medicine. 



:K. ROTUNDA, Linn. Sp. PL 3 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 16 ; F. B. I. vi, 

 222 ; Watt E. D. ; Prain Beng. PL 1038 ; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 

 727. Vern. Bhui-Champa. A stemless herb. Leaves petioled, erect, 

 oblong, 12 by 3 in., appearing after the flowers. Corolla-segments 

 long, linear. Lip lilac or reddish. Staminodes oblong, acute. 

 Wild or cultivated throughout India, extending to Malay Pen. and 

 Islands. Flowers very fragrant. 



ALPINIA NUTANS, Roscoe ; Roxb. ; FL In<l. i, 65 ; F. B. I. vi, 256 ; 

 Watt E. D. ; Gamble Man. 723 ; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 738. Stems 

 up to 10 ft. high. Leaves 1-2 ft. long by 3-6 in., obloftg-lanceolate. 

 Flowers very handsome, in panicles 6-12 in. long, the rhachis very 

 hairy ; bracts large, concave, ivory-white tinged with pink and 

 variegated with red and yellow. Mr. Gamble states that this 

 planted in Dehra Dun at Rajawala, where it affords good fodder 

 for elephants. It is also much grown as an ornamental plant in 

 gardens. It is a native of the E. Himalaya and Burma, extend- 

 ing to the Malay Pen. and Islands. 



CANXA IXDICA, Linn. ; var. ORTENTALIS Rose ; F. B. I vi, 260. Prain 

 Beng. 1>L 1047. C. indica, Linn..; Roxb.; FL Ind. i, 1. ; Watt 

 E. D. ; Cooke FL Bomb. //, 744. Rootstock tuberous, with many 

 fibres. Stems 3-4 ft. high. Leaves 6-18 in. long, oblong or . elliptic - 

 lanceolate, caudate-acuminate. Flowers distant. 2| in. long, scarlet 

 or yellow. The seeds are black and shining and are known under 

 the name of Indian shot. This species is much grown in Indian 

 gardens for its handsome flowers. 



"MusA, Linn. Tree-like herbs with stout steins composed of convolute 

 leaf-sheaths. Leaves very large, oblong, spirally arranged. Flowers 

 in an erect or decurved subterminal spike, practically 1 -sexual, the 

 lower female, the upper male ; bracts large, spathaceous. ovate or 

 orbicular. Calyx tubular, spathaceous, 3-5-lobed, slit to the base 

 on one side. Petals connate, forming a unilateral corolla as long 

 as the ca'lyx or shorter, convolute round tKe stamens and style. 

 Stamens o, perfect, the 6th rudimentary ' or obsolete ; filaments 

 stout, filiform ; anthers linear, erect, 2-celled. Carpels 3, connate 

 in a 3 -celled ovary ; -erfules many ; style filiform from a thickened 

 base ; stigma 6~k*bec}, subglobose. Fruit oblong or fusiform, 

 3-gonous, fleshy, imJeMscent. Seeds subglobose or angled by pressure, 

 in cultivated forms often obsolete. Species about 40, in tropical 



