Amomitm.] cxlix. scitamine^. (J. G. Baker.) 243 



1847, t. 62 ; leaves oblong, spike dense-fld. globose lip orbicular twice as 

 long as the corolla-segments. Cenolophon vitellinum, Horan. Prodr. 36. 



Ceylon ? Hort. Chiswick. 



Leafy stem slender, 2 ft. Leaves 6-8 by 3-4 in., bright green, glabrous. S'pike 

 small, shortly peduncled ; bracts green, oblong, J in. Galyie and corolla-tube about 

 as long as the bract ; corolla-segments linear-oblong, as long as the tube. Lip 1 in., 

 base spurred, bright yellow, with red veins. Anthers with a large trifid crest ; cells 

 glabrous, tips diverging. 



48. A. macrostephanum, BaJcer ; leaves lanceolate base cordate, 

 spike elongate, bracts deciduous, lip obovate-cuneate much longer than the 

 corolla-segments. 



Pekak ; alt. 500-1000 ft.. King's Collector. 



Leafy stem very slender, 4-8 ft. Leaves l-lj ft. by 2-3 in. thin, glabrous, 

 caudate, narrowed fron} the middle to the cordate base. Spike 3-4 in. ; peduncle 

 long, erect, enveloped in the sheath of the topmost leaf; bracts caducous. Ovwry 

 densely villous. Calyx loosely tubular, \ in. OoroHa-tube rather longer than the 

 calyx ; segments linear-oblong. Lip 1 in. Filament half as long ; anther glabrous ; 

 crest large, leafy, crisped, lacerate. 



12. ZINGIBER, Adans. 



Biootstock horizontal, tuberous. Leafy stem elongated. Leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, clasping the stem by their long sheaths. Spikes usually 

 radical, rarely lateral or terminal on the leafy stem ; peduncle short 

 or long ; bracts persistent, usually siugle-fld. Galyx cylindrio, shortly 3- 

 lobed. CoroZZa-tube cylindrio ; segments lanceolate, upper concave. Lateral 

 staminodes or adnate to the obovate-cuneate lip ; filament short ; anther- 

 cells contiguous, crest narrow, as long as the cells. Ovary 8-celled; 

 ovules many, superposed ; style filiform ; stigma small, subglobose. 

 Capsule oblong, finally dehiscing. Seeds large, globose, arillate. — Species 

 30, Tropics of Old World. 



Sect. I. Cryptanthium, Scran. Spikes produced direct from the 

 rootstock, very short and dense ; peduncle very short. — (Sp. 1-11.) 



* Leaves more or less piibeseent beneath. 



1. Z. chrysanthum, Mose. Beit. PI. t. 86; leaves pubescent be- 

 neath, bracts green outer ovate inner lanceolate with a hairy cusp, corolla- 

 segments bri^t red, lip bright yellow deeply 3-lobed, midlobe orbicular, 

 lateral ovate. Horan. Pro6l/r. 27. Z. ligulatnm, Wall. Cat. 6566, non 

 Roxb. 



Tbopical Himalaya, from Kumaon, ascending to 5500 ft., to Sikkim and 

 Assam. 



Leafy stem 6-8 ft. leaves 12 by 2-3 in. , oblong-lanceolate. SpiTce very dense, 

 globose or oblong ; ipeduncle very short ; inner bracts 1^2 in. broad. Corolla- 

 tube li-2 in. ; segments 1 in., lanceolate. Lip 1 in., unspotted j basal auricles 

 largest of any species, hence the lip is as broad as long. Stamen shorter than the 

 lip. Capsule oblong. Seeds brown, nearly as large as a pea, wrapped to the top in 

 a white membranous aril. — Z. ELAVESOElfS, Imik. ; Dietr. Sp. i. 54, is probably a 

 form of this, but the description is very incomplete. 



2. Z. rubens, Roxh. in Asiat. Res. xi. 348 ; Hort. Beng. 1 ; Fl. Ind. 

 i. 53; leaves pubescent beneath, bracts bright red outer ovate inner 



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