THE SCITAMINEZE OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 161 
ric capsule, orange colored, green, or brown, black dry dehiscent 
pubescent or hairy wb numerous angled small enclosed in a 
sweet pithy aril, aromatic. 
The genus is confined to East India, China, and North 
Australia. ans я are cultivated for their beautiful 
flowers, some especially А, аг: eid oo e. id Gala жый 
als for their ине ee es. Thes e been arrang 
ed in four sections, viz., Кш, with t ers "o ои 
іп large bracteoles, and по anther crest ; Cati with large 
bracteoles, and no crest, Hellenia with a small anther crest 
and Geostachys which I would exclude as a distinct genus. 
This grouping is not however quite satisfactory as it separates 
closely allied plants, while placing very different species together. 
Nearly all fall dees) into three groups which indeed might be 
called genera, vi 
(A). Hellenia. Josh small, white or pink, lip narrow not 
convolute often bifid. Anther usually crested. Fruit small 
globose few-seeded. 
B). Catimbium. Flowers large, lip broad obovate convolute, - 
red and yellow. Anther not crested, fruit globose, large, seeds 
C). Cenolophon. Flowers large, lip entire oblong orange 
anther crested. Fruit usually cylindric or fusiform, seeds large 
few. 
Hellenia. 
Lip entire Mines A. conchigera. 
Lip rrow oblong. A. e, 
Lip bifid, ede ulate A. anga. 
; narrow, linear, no ido crest. A. RU E per d 
n » anther crested. . scabra. 
^ four-lobed A. rosella. 
Catinbium, 
Panicle or raceme lax, bracts "mem ог жеттен һа ^x 
Staminodes absent, bracteoles small caduco mu 
й "bracteoles im boat- ipia. 2 endis; 
