Kempferia, | SCITAMINE (Wright). 315 
shorter, ibe on both a sheaths long ; flowers a 
from the rootstock ; peduncle 8 in. long ; calyx tubular, split to the 
middle on one side, 2 in. bani vee Ea corolla white ; lobes 
linear or lanceolate-oblong, acute or shortly cucullate, 2-2} in. long, 
6-8 lin. wide; lateral staminodes oblong, erect, 3 in. long, 1} in. 
wide, eck: coloured, darker at the outer edge, lighter towards the 
d 
seamagt appendage 2-21 in. long, 5 oe wide, slightly contracted 
w the lacerate apex. K. Schum. in Engl. neers Zingib. 71. 
K. oe Burtt-Davy in Transv. Agric. Piette ix. (1910) 45 
RI Reeion: Transvaal; Barberton, Steytler in Herb. Bolus, 6396! 
Granite “Hill Farm, Nelspruit, Withelon, 4163 |! Elim, Spelunken, Mingard, 19! 
New a Reckenzaan, 6095 ! 
x REG ION : Natal; Riet Valley, Mrs. Saunders! Swaziland, without 
ened locality, Andrew i 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
According to Mr. Burtt-Davy this plant is known in the Transvaal as the 
oe gg ” Plants grown in the Cambridge Botanic Garden from tubers 
supplied by Mr. Burt rtt-Davy as ‘‘ Sherungulu” ebssa A flower! se in April, 1912, 
scarcely distinguishable from those of Geers aru , Rox ce hye 
rs t the 
aal (Transvaal Mus. Herb. 2497) Sevitats ne a single flower identical with 
: i ag! li oF: wi y 
eath 5$ in. long 
2. Ke ee a (Schlechter & K. Schum. in Engl. Pflanzenr. 
Zingib. 72, fig. E-F) ; a perennial herb up to 2 ft. high ; 
rhizome 8 lin. ae diam. when dried ; leaves nearly all radical, 
linear-lanceolate or linear, long-acuminate, tapering towards the 
base, up to 1 ft. long, nearly 1 in. wide, glabrous on both surfaces ; 
of leaves ; bracts, pedicels and ovary subterranean ; flowers solitary 
or 3-6 racemosely arranged, hermaphrodite and female; herma- 
lanceolate, acuminate, membranous, white ; lateral staminodes erect, 
3 in. long, 1} in _ wide, obovate, pink ; lip 2} in. long, 2} in. wide, 
bifid, pink with a yellow blotch at the base, united below with the 
lateral staminodes into a split tube 2} in. long ; anther linear, 6 lin. 
long ; connective produced above the cells into a toothed crest 
about 1 in. long and 5-6 lin. wide ; style filiform; stigma crateri- 
form, 3-lobed ; female flower : calyx and corolla as in the herma- 
phrodite flower ; staminodes very ese 4-6, united into a yellow 
cylindrical tube about 3 in, long ; lobes pink, sometimes one oblong, 
obtuse, 1} in. long, 7 lin. wide, with .a yellow blotch at the base, 
