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Kaempf er ia L. ; 



Linn. Gen. pl. 1737, 331; Ridley 1899, 1 10; K. Schumann, 1904, 65(expar- 

 te) ; Gagnepain, 1908, 46 (exparte) — Curcuma Linn. Musa cliffortiana (1736). 

 Diagnosisemendata. 



Calyx tubulosLis, superne breviter spathaceo-fissus, minute inaequaiiter 

 dentatus corollae tubo multo brevior vel aequilongus {K. rotunda). Corollae 

 tubus elongatus, lobi aequales elongati lanceoiati saepe convoiuti patentes. 

 Staminodia lateraiia petaloidea, plana, expansa, elliptica vel oblonga vel 

 obovata, unguiculata, saepe labello similia. Labeilum planum, ungue haud 

 canalicuiato, magnum, haud longius quam latum saepe latissime obovatum, 

 ad medium bifidum vel bipartitum lobis rotundatis, staminodiis lateralibus 

 haud absimilibus et cum iis crucem referentes. Stamen in apice faucis 

 angusti insertum filamento brevissimo vel su'bnullo, (in K. fissa Gagn. 

 subelongato) ; anthera linearis saepe angusta ex orificio faucis haud exserta, 

 thecae dissitae per iongitudinem déhiscentes ad margines connectivi angusti vel 

 latioris, ultra loculos producti in cristam vulgo maximam (in K. candidaVJaW. 

 brevem) integram vel bifidam vel dentatam saepe reflexam, ex fauce angusto 

 exsertam. Gynaecium et stylus Gastrochiii, stylodia subulata; in K. cuneataGagn. 

 (1905, 546) deficientia (fide auctore). PoUinis granula globosa, iaevia, incohae- 

 rentia. Inflorescentia capitata bracteis numerosis, fertilibus externis majoribus, 

 subinvoiucrantibus, interdum binis majoribus propriis involucrata, multi-vel 

 pauciflora, floribus spiralit^r insertis, bracteolis tenuibus hyalinis bidentatis vel 

 bifidis, breviter vel modice, raro longe, pedunculata, inter vaginas foliorum tota 

 inclusa vel exserta, interdum praecox. Herba radicalis vel caulescensl Folia 

 nunc bina, nunc 2-8, vaginis vulgo valde elongatis, petiolis brevibus vel 

 brevissimis, ligula vulgo inconspicua vel parva. Fructus in perpaucis speciebus 

 descripti globosi vel elliptici, pauci-vel multispermi, triloculares. 



For the comparison between this genus and Gas/roc/z/Vus in its wider sense, 

 there ader is referred to page 82, 83 where aconsidérablenumberofspeciesranged 

 by Schumann with Kaempferiavjeie discussed underGasfA0c/?/7«s.Leavingaside 

 those speciescompr\se(iuï\(itTStah!ianthus,Camptandra,StachyantliesisanàHa- 

 pochlorema the genus is now very homogeneous, a fact proved e. g. by the inf lores- 

 cence which though in exterior habit rather varying, analogous to Gastrochilus, 

 really possesses a common character, very different from that genus. 



The following modes of inflorescence are to be found in this genus. 



Few flowered abbreviated spike?, sessile, terminal on the erect foliate 

 stem, involucrate by the large oblong, acuminate, terete green bract, brac- 

 teole 3-fid: K. secunda. Hooker (1888), tab. 6999. 



Fewflowered long peduncled terminal head, peduncle sheathed by 

 the radical I eaves, narrowly oblong, involucrate by a spatliaceous terete 

 bract with a rudimentary blade ; green, redvariegated, with an opposite smaller 

 green acute bract: K. eleguns Wall (1830) ill 24, t 27. 



