70 = 
erect oblong, obtuse, fleshy, white; capsule oblong-trigonous, dehiscent; seeds few, oblong 
cylindric, obtuse, arillate; arillus lax, laciniate, white; testa coriaceous, shining. Horan. 
Prodr. 24 (1862); Bak. in Hook, f. Flor. Brit. Ind. vi. 224 (1890). Curcuma 
glaucophylla Wall. Cat. 6594 (1832). 
Burma: Prome; Wallich. 
Prats 85.— Hitchenia glauca Wall. 1, rhizome and base of stem reduced $ from Wallich’s original 
drawing; 2, inflorescence, of natural size, from the same; 3, flower, with buds of a single bract; 4, 
corolla lobes, stamens and staminodes, dissected; 5, calyx, opened; bract, and ovary ; 6, anther with upper 
part of style in situ; 7, the same, upper part of style removed; 8, apex of style, and stigma; 9, capsule; 10, 
the same fully dehiscent ; 11, 12, 13, seeds, with arillus; 14, seed greatly enlarged; 15, the same, in vertical 
section, embryo im situ ; 16, the same, embryo removed ; 17, embryo. 
UG KD P. 
PLATE 86. 
93. Неруснтом LUTEUM (T, Thoms. Mss.) in Herb. Calcutt.; Bak. in Hook. f. Flor. 
Brit. Ind. vi. 232 (1892). 
Natural order Scitaminez. 
А rather slender herb ; aves narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 25 cm. long, 5—6 
cm. wide, medium-green above, pale-green beneath; spike short, 6 cm. long, bracts ovate, 
medium-green with pale margin, closely imbricate, 2°5 cm. long, 2 cm. wide; calyx З cm 
long, just overtopping the bracts, bracteoles half as long as calyx; corolla-tube 5 cm., 
pale greenish-yellow below, rather darker upwards, segments linear, 3 сш., pale-yellow; 
staminodes ovate-lanceolate, lemon-yellow ; lip lemon-yellow, orbicular, 2 cm. wide, bifid to 
one-third its diameter, the lobes slightly angled, abruptly narrowed to a rounded base 
above a distinct claw 7:5 mm. long ; stamen lemon-yellow, 1 cm. long, filament paler yellow, 
2°5 em. ; stylodes short, obtuse, subconical. 
Assam : Oldham. 
This very distinct species is only known from an excelient coloured drawing made at 
Calcutta under the supervision of Dr. Т. Thomson, when Superintendent of the Royal 
Botanic Garden. Whether, in attaching the name H. luteum to the drawing, Thomson 
supposed that this plant is the Hedychium luteum of English gardeners to which 
reference is made by Link in Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 443 (1821), or whether the name, 
which is sufficiently appropriate, was intended to indicate a previously unknown species, 
cannot now be satisfactorily determined. The date of the drawing is November 1854. 
As the species has been described by Mr. Baker from a copy of this drawing and as 
the plant seems to be rare—at all events it has not been again collected in Assam 
we have thought it advisable to publish а copy of the drawing. 
Рглте 86.—Hedychium luteum T. Thoms. 1, upper portion of flowering stem; 2, flower and bud 
from axil of one bract; 3, 4, bracteoles,—0of natural size; 5, stamen and stigma; 6, ovary,—both 
enlarged ; 7, tranverse section of ovary,—much enlarged. 
B. Eas D. Р, 
