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 ORDER CLXXII. ZINGIBERACE^. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, irregular: perianth double, outer 

 one shorter, usually coloured, tubular, limb 3-toothed or 3releft, 

 inner one coroUaoeous, tubular, segments of the 6-parted limb 

 in two rows, 3 outer rows nearly equal, or two lateral ones 

 equal, the third dissimilar^ inner lateral ones very rarely 

 agreeing with the outer ones, usually very minute, lip larger, 

 entire or 2 — 3-lobed : stamen inserted on the outer segment of 

 the corolla : filament -linear, usually produced beyond the cells 

 of the anther, undivided or lobed : anther 2-celled, terminal, 

 cells parallel, adnate by the back, dehiscing lengthways : 

 ovary inferior, 3-celled : ovviles many, 1- or 2-rowed in the 

 central angle of the cells, horizontal, , anatrppal : style fili- 

 form: stigma thickened, often hollow: capsule crowned with 

 the perianth, membranaceous, sometimes baccate, 3-celled, 

 loculioidaUy 3-valved : seeds solitary in the cells, erect, or 

 many when the fruit in 3-celled, naked or surrounded with a 

 short aril: testa cartilaginous: albumen mealy: embryo 

 orthotropal. — Herbs with a creepmg or tuberous rhizome, 

 perennial, stemless or caulescent: leaves sometimes all radical, 

 or cauline, alternate, simple, petioled, the petiole forming a 

 sheath, cleft lengthways : furnished with a ligula at the mouth 

 or naked, limb quite entire, middle nerve strong: inflorescence 

 radical or terminal, densely or loosely spiked, racemose or 

 panicled. 



GENUS I. GLOBBA. 



Monandria Monogynla. Sex: Syst: 



; Gen. Chab. Calyx 3-cleft: tube of the corolla slender, inner 

 lateral segments narrow, denticulate, lip larger, entire, tubulated 

 with the filament: filament keeled not produced beyond the anther: 

 ovary inferior, 1 -celled : ovules numerous in three parietal placentae, 

 ascending, anatropal : style filiform, passing between the cells of the 

 anther: stigma ftinnel-shaped : capsule 1 -celled, 3-valved, bearing 

 seeds in the middle: seeds numerous, arillate. — Low annual herbs : 

 leaves distichous, membranaceous, lanceolate, sheaths cleft: ia- 

 florescenoe terminal, loosely fascicled, racemose or spiked. 



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