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* Ovary 1-celled; placentas 3, parietal. 



1. Maktisia. Scape leafless ; corolla-tube long ; lateral staminodes 

 filiform or spathulate, in the middle of the elongate filament, opposite, 

 spreading. 



2. Globba. Stem leafy; corolla-tube long ; lateral staminodes petal- 

 like ; filament slender. 



3. Hemioeohis. Corolla-tube short; lateral staminodes petal-like; 

 filament sEort. 



** Ovary 3-celled ; placentas axile. 



t Lateral staminodes broad. 



§ Connective spurred at the base. 



4. EoscoEA. Flowering stem leafy ; bracts 1-fld, ; filament long; capsule 

 Bubdehiscent. — Flowers purple or white. 



5. Oatjtleya. Flowering stem leafy ; bracts 1-fld. ; filament long ; 

 capsule dehiscent witb recurved valves. — Flowers yellow. 



6. CuECUMA. Flowering stem leafy or not ; bracts oncuUate, several-fld., 

 formings cone-like spike; filament petaloid ; capsule subdehiscent. 



§§ Oonneetive very broad, or crested, not spurred. 



7. Gastsochiltts. Flowering stem short or erect ; filament short 

 connective broad not crested. 



8. Ka;MPPERiA. Flowering stem leafy or not ; filament very short 

 connective crested. 



9. HiTCHENiA. Flowering stem leafy; filament long, complicate 

 connective broad not crested. — Inflor. as in Curcuma. 



$$$ Connective very narrow, neither spurred nor crested. 



10. Hedyceium. Flowering stem leafy ; filament long, slender. 



ft Lateral staminodes small or 0, rarely narrow and adnate to the lip . 

 § Flowers in a dense-fld. cone-like spike. 



11. Amomum. Flowering scapes usually leafless ; filament short ; 

 anther-cells diverging above ; connective dilated crested or 2-lobed, rarely 

 simple. 



]'2. Zrsiii^iER. Spikes terminating leafy stems nv leafless scapes; 

 filament short, anther-cells parallel, connective usually produced into a 

 long appendage. 



13. CosTTJS. Spikes terminating leafy stems or leafless scapes; filament 

 petaloid, anther adnate to its middle, cells parallel. 



§§ Flovjers in lacc-fid. spilres or panicles. 



14. Oyphostigma. Scape leafless, panicle loosely flowering from the 

 base upwards ; filament short, couneotive with a G-lobed crest. 



15. Elettaeia. Scape leafless, panicle loosely flowering from the base 

 upwards; filament very short; anther-cells parallel, connective not dilated. 



16. Blettaeiopsis. Scape leafless ; spike simple ; bracts small ; fila- 

 ment short, anther petaloid. 



17. ScAPHOCHLAMTS. Scape leafless ; spike simple ; bracts large, per- 

 sistent ; filament short, connective petaloid. 



