316 SCITAMINE (Wright). [Kempferia. 
and 5 others oblanceolate, unguiculate, obtuse, 4—5 lin. wide, some- 
times 2-3 oblong, obtuse 1-1} in. wide, alternating with 2-3 
oblanceolate, unguiculate, about 5 lin. wide, when 5 are present 2 
are broad and 3 narrow. Siphonochilus natalensis, Wood & Franks in 
Kew Bulletin, 1911, 274, adi in Wood, Natal Plants, vi. tt. 560-561. 
ASTERN Recon: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 544! peer Wylie in 
Herb. Wood, 11723! and am pe spetlie ona: Gerrard, 1823 
The ein see odite flowers of this do not differ from those of K. FE thelx, babes 
and further investigation in the field may result in these two species being un 
The existence of female flowers was noted by the late Prof. W. H. Harvey iy a 
letter to Dr. T. Thomson, written in 1865, and now preserved at Kew; the 
specimens to which he refers have not been found either at Kew or Dublin. The 
staminodes of the female flowers are very variable, even in Wood’s 11723 
Il. STRELITZIA, Ait. 
owers hermaphrodite. Sepals 3, yellow or white, the anticous 
more concave than the others. Petals 3, free, blue or white, 2 
branches ; ovules many, superposed. Capa okichiis triquetrous, 
loculicidal. Seeds few, with a woolly ar 
Stemless or with a stem ; leaves distichous, more or less o oblong ; petiole up to 
6 ft. long » deeply channelled down the face ; peduncle erect, variable i in length ; 
flowers satiear in the axil of a coriaceous spathaceous bract. 
uulescent ; iy — yellow : 
ec 14 ft it. rgin undulate below... ..- (1) Regine. 
Leaves 9 in, i margin ae ae on a --- (2) parvifolia. 
Caulescent ; sepals white : 
Petals white fo ae ois ie oui ... (8) augusta. 
Petals blue aoe oe he ee He --- (4) Nicolai. 
1. 8. Regine (Banks in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 285, t. 2); 
stemless ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, acu te, cuneate at the base, up to 
14 ft. long and 4 in. wide, entire, undulate especially in the lower 
part, quite glabrous, bright green above, Ducibeaoen beneath ; 
petiole up to 4 ft. long; peduncle as long as the petiole ; bracts 
tubular, oblique and acute at the mouth, siopheneal one cym mbiform orm, 
acumina’ » up to 8 in. long, gree n, ed d with purple; sepals 
lanceolate, 3-4 in. long, orange-yellow ; petals dark blue, blade of 
the two lower 2 in. long, with a rounded basal auricle, claw 1 in. 
hing to th 
of the — petals ; narrowly linear, twice as si as the 
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