62 FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS. 
mental foliagé plants. Strelitzia, another genus of this family, is 
known as the Bird-of-Paradise plant, from the peculiar coloring of its 
flowers and floral bracts. 
Family Zingiberaceae. Ginger Family. About 40 genera and 
Fia. 52.—Branch, flower and rootstock of West Indian arrowroot (Mar- 
ania arundinacea). Original. 
450 species, all tropical, and particularly numerous in the forests of 
southern Asia. The flowers contain but one fertile stamen; the other 
two are united into a petaloid and often highly colored leaf, the lip or 
labellum. The fruit is usually a three-valved capsule. Several species 
