Ravenala.)} SCITAMINE A. 1049 
corolla with cylindric tube ; lobes linear-oblong, see spread- 
Stamens, 1 perfect, all connate in a corolla-like elow ; 
lobes petal-like, unequal, one bearing a single marginal mY cell. 
Carpels 3, connate in a 3-locular ovary ; ovules 1 in each cell or 
rarely 2 of the cells empty; style adnate below to the staminal- 
tube, free, hooked above; stigma capitate. Frwit globose, inde- 
hiscent or tardily rupturing. Seeds 1-8, erect; arillus short, 
fleshy ; embryo curved. 
Flowers purple ; spikes lateral, rarely terminal, globose; bracts deers 
with incurved, scarious, at length bristly ti ips 
Flowers white or yellow ; spikes always lateral :— 
Spikes oblong; bracts oblong, with obtuse, minutely sia ele 
fruit usually 3-seeded 
Spikes globose; bracts lanceolate, acute; fruit usually <a ‘a 
parviflorum. 
2170. Purynium caprratum Willd.; F. I. i. 8; F. B. I. vi. 259. 
FRE Nagpur; N. Bengal, Duars. 
id ps2 eile: large, oblong. Vernac. Kudali. 
2171, bono IMBRicaTuM Roxb.; F. I. i. 6; F. B. I. vi. 259. 
Chittagong. 
A rigid herb ; leaves large, ere Vernac. Pituli- -pata. 
2172. Parynrum parvirtorum Roxb.; F. 1. i. 7; F. B. 1. vi. 259. 
Chota Na 
A herb, with: etn tuberous rootstock. 
943. Ravenala Adans. 
Stem short or long and tree-like, marked with annular leaf- 
scars ; leaves large, close-set, distichously fan-like ; petioles long, 
concave below, hardly sheathing. Flowers many, large, short- 
pedicelled, shortly racemose within large, boat-shaped, spathe-like 
bracts, distichously spreading, on axillary scapes or peduncles. 
Sepals 3, long, narrow, the central rather wider than the lateral, 
keeled. Petals 3, the outermost shorter than the others, subcom- 
plicate, lateral like se pals but rather smaller. Stamens 5, rather 
numerous in each cell ; nails long, filiform ; stigma o stare ber ss 
shortly 6-toothed. ruit an oblong or ovoid-trigonous, loculici 
y 8-valved capsule. Seeds numerous; arillus fimbriate 
