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RIDLEY. 
Corolla-tube short, thick. 
Panicle-branches spicate, with close-set bracts 13. Kolowratia 
Panicle-branches lax, the bracts small, caducous 14. Alpinia 
Leafy stem spiral; ligule annular; spike terminal or radical 15. Costus 
g 2. Marantace.e. Non-aromatic. Fertile stamen one, with a single cell on 
the edge, the three others petaloid, irregular. 
Stems erect, shrubby, branched 10. Donax 
Stemless plants. 
Inflorescence panicled, from the side of a petiole, spikes elongate. 
17. Phacelophry nium 
Spikes in a dense lateral head 18. Phrynium 
Spikes in small heads; flowers solitary in the bracts 19. Monoplirynium 
§3. Cannace.e. Non-aromatic. Panicle terminal. Stamens regular, petaloid, 
one with a lateral anther-cell 20. Canna 
§4. IMusace.e. Stamens five, non-petaloid ; petals and sepals each connate into 
one organ 21. Musa 
1. GLOBBA L. 
Slender herbs with a short rhizome. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, thin. 
sheathing, with a small ligule. Inflorescence terminal, panicled, lax. 
Flowers small, yellow, white, or violet. Calyx tubular, 3-toothed, regular 
or irregular. Corolla-tube longer, 3-lobed, lobes boat-shaped, deflexed. 
Staminodes similar. Lip-base adnate by its edges to the stamen, forming 
a tube, the limb narrow, deflexed, usually bilobed, rarely entire, the fila- 
ment much longer, erect, slender. Anther small ; connective prolonged 
laterally into a simple margin, or with two to four triangular spurs. 
Style longer, slender ; stigma very small, cup-shaped. Ovary 1-celled, the 
placentas 3, parietal. Capsule globose, smooth or warted, succulent, 
dehiscing irregularly. Seeds small, with a white aril. 
Species about 80, extending from India to Siam, southern China, and the 
Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
§ Ceratantiiera. Anther-spurs one on each side. 
Flowers yellow. 
A tall stout plant, the panicle pyramidal 1. G. pyramidata 
A weak small plant, the panicle slender 2. G. parviflora 
Flowers white. 
Leaves glabrous. 
Anther-spurs linear, acuminate 3. G. campsophylla 
Anther-spurs triangular. 
Calyx turbinate 4. G. brevifolia 
Calyx cylindrical 5. G. Merrillii 
Leaves pubescent beneath. 
Sheaths pubescent. 
Staminodes lanceolate, acute 0. G. gracilis 
Staminodes oblong, blunt 7. G. latifolia 
Sheaths glabrous 8. G. leucocarpa 
Marantella. Anther-spurs two on each side. 
Flowers yellow 9. G. marantina 
Flowers black or violet 10. G. ustulata 
1. G. pyramidata Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France IV 1 (1901) 204, 
pi. J t , f. 7-10; K. Sebum, in Pflanzenreich 20 (1904) 140. 
