SYNOPTICAL TABLE OF GENERA. 
1 Canna ...... Linneus 
2 Maranta...Do. 
3 Purynium... Willdenow 
anther single, style stigma triangular, seed single, irregular 
style recurved, 
style erect, club-shaped, stigma obtuse, seeds numerous, regular, globose 
unsupported. stigma simple, seeds three, oblong, angular 
tubular stigma orbicular ’ i 
Sect. I. stigma terminating in a long flat appendage, seed single, regular .........sesseeeeeee 4 Tuatia...... Linneus 
Canna. filament long, grooved, anther attached to the apex 5 Hepycuium,Kenig 
anther naked anther incurved, two spurs at the base 6 Roscoza.....Smith 
MONANDRIA anther attached by a short ligament to the faux of the corolla P 
anther double, style anther linear, without spurs .. 7 Reyeatnia,Linneus 
MONOGYNIA. 
long, flexible, sup- ( filament not extended beyond the anther 8 Axrrnta .....Do. 
ported between the style with germinal processes at the base .........0:esec00e 9 Hetieyra...R. Brown 
apex of the filament ovate 
lobes of the anther. | anther covered style naked at the base, two processes at the apex ...... 10 Cosrus....... Linneus 
filament ex- 
Sect. II. at the back by apex subulate, sulcate 11 ZrveiseEr....Roscoe 
tended 
Scrraminex. the filament e apex; bilobates:.s<..c.eersecestecsestectes : 12 Kenerenta, Linneus 
beyond the 
apex'trilobates (Pee oc Ls iceberg eT tT 13 Amomum.....Do. 
anther 
filament trilobate, middle section antheriferous, anther spurred (here tert 14 Curcuma....Do. 
filament very long, grooved, anther with an ppend 15 Grossa...... Do. 
CHARACTERS OF THE GENERA. 
Figures 6 and 7, Roscoea and Renealmia. The long lines which appear to connect the germen with the anther are intended to represent the style, which is 
received into the furrow of the double anther, and after conforming to its shape, appears again, with the stigma, a little beyond it. The small portion which appears 
below the anther is intended to show the ligament, by which the anther is attached to the faux or tube of the corolla; these two genera having no proper filament. 
In all the other genera the filament is shown connecting the anther with the germen, 
Figure 11. Zingiber. I am well aware that Gertner, in his Treatise “De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum,” printed at Stutgard in 1788, was the first who 
Proposed to distinguish a genus of Plants by the name of Zingiber, but this genus was founded on a different principle from the above, being established upon the 
character of the seed, and not including cither the officinal Zingiber or any of its proper congeners. ‘The Plants which Gertner’ has given. as species of Zingiber are, 
for the most part, included under the genus Amomum in the present arrangement ; on which account I cannot consider him as the founder of the present genus of Zingiber, 
