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PLATE 87 
94. ZINGIBER PARDOCHEILUM Wall. ez Voigt, Hort. Suburb. Caleuti, 562 (1845). 
Natural order Scitaminee. 
A stout leafy herb; rootstock horizontal, composed of a series of close-set subspherical 
tubers. with numerous stout roots; leafy stem 40 cm. long 1:5 em. thick; leaves oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, 30 cm. long, 7—8 cm. wide, mouth of the sheath with pale, oblong, obtuse 
auricles 3:5 cm. long, sheath outside and leaves above dark-green, paler beneath, glabrous; 
flowers in dense, obconic, subturbinate, hardly peduneled spikes, flattened or rounded at the 
top, 8 em. long, 6 cm. wide; bracts much imbricated, obovate-cuneate, truncate or emarginate 
dark-red, the outer 2°5 cm. bog: calyx reddish, 175 cm. long; corolla-tube almost white, 
as long as the outer bracts, segments lanceolate, acute, 1:75 сш. long, dark-red at the tips, 
rather paler below ; йр 1:5 em. long, deeply 3-lobed, the midlobe wide-oblong, the lateral 
lobes orbicular, 2 uniformly tesselate with wide dark-lilac or purple lines on a 
pale-yellow ground; stamen with narrow-oblong, subsessile anther; cells close, parallel, 
introrse, connective produced as a cobalt-blue, incurved, narrowly lanceolate, erect 
crest 5 mm. long; ovary hirsute, subturbinate; style somewhat dilated at the top, 
with а fringe of short hairs surrounding the stigma; stylodes short, obtuse. Bak. in 
Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. vi. 945 (1892). 
Burma: Wallich. 
This beautiful species is only known from a fine coloured drawing in the Calcutta 
Herbarium made, under the supervision of Dr. Wallich, from a living plant grown 
in the Royal Botanic Garden; of this figure PLATE 87 is a copy. It is published 
now in the hope thereby of attracting attention to the species and perhaps facilitat- 
ing its re-discovery. 
РглтЕ 87.—Zingiber pardocheilum Wall. 1, plant,—of natural size; 2, flower x 3; 3, outer 
bract; 4, inner bract; 5 and 6, corolla-lobes; 7, corolla-tube, lip and stamen; 8, ovary and style,— 
all enlarged. 
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PLATE 88. 
95. ZINGIBER CLARKEI King ex Benth. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. ш. 
646 (1883). 
Natural order Scitaminee. 
А stoutish herb; leafy stem 15—18 dm. high; leaves oblong or oblong- елан, 
30—45 cm. long, 5—10 cm. wide, the under surface finely pubescent; lowers in 
lateral, oblong-cylindric spikes 8—10 сш, long, 2:5—4 cm. in diam., on nodding 
pubescent peduncles 8—10 cm. long, springing from the side of the leafy stem; main- 
bracts oblong, 2:5 cm. long, obtuse or retuse, in flower green, in fruit pale-red, 
each 2—4-fld; calyz yellowish, subtruncate; corolla-tube as long as the bracts, 
pale-yellow, segments 2۰5 сш. long, pale-yellow, the uppermost widest; йр as bu 
as the corolla-segments, irregularly ovate-oblong, yellow, the margins suffused with 
close-set brownish-purple streaks; айатеп  pale-yellow, nearly as long as the lip, 
crest. almost filiform capsule s hie, greenish, herbaceous, shorter than the 
