Amomum.] 
SCITAMLNEJE. 
327 
Boscoe, Scit. Plant. 75; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3192), a native of Madagas- 
car, is naturalised in Mauritius on the banks of the stream near Moka and 
round Bois Cheri, and is contained in Prof. Percival Wright’s Seychelles 
collection. It has a large thick creeping rootstock, leafy stems 10 or 
12 feet high, oblong acute subcoriaceous short-petioled leaves 1-1 J feet 
long, flowers 50-100 in a dense conical head on a much shorter special 
stem, the head surrounded by several large red bracts with a pale border, 
and each flower overtopped by a smaller oblong spathulate bract of a 
similar kind, a curved tubular perianth above an inch long, a densely 
pilose ovary, a cylindrical membranous calyx with three short lan- 
ceolate teeth, three oblanceolate red petals shorter than the calyx, a 
large protruded oblanceolate bright red labellum enfolding the geni- 
talia, a pilose ligulate filament, a petaloid obtuse emarginate connective 
slightly produced beyond the separated anther-cells, a cylindrical style 
with a discoid stigma, and an obovoid capsule 1-LJ in. long. 
* Canna indicrt, Linn. ; Bot. Beg. t. 776, Bose. Scit. Plant. 1. 1, the 
Indian Shot, a native of Tropical Asia, is now abundantly established in 
Mauritius, Seychelles, and Bodriguez. It has leafy stems 4-5 feet 
high, large membranous oblong leaves on long sheathing petioles, 
flowers in lax branched terminal spikes each subtended by an oblong 
membranous bract, a densely papillose ovary, 3 small lanceolate scariose 
sepals, 3 lanceolate scarlet subequal reflexing petals, 3 still longer 
oblanceolate- spathulate bright coloured petaloid staminodes, a shorter 
lingulate petaloid filament with a linear 1-celled anther adnate to one 
side at the tip, a compressed clavate style and dry rugose capsule 
containing many globose black seeds. Safron marron or Balisier. 
Order XCIV. OBCHIDE^. 
(By S. Le Marchant Moore, F.L.S.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite, except in rare instances irregular. Perianth 
superior, herbaceous or gaily coloured, of three outer segments (sepals) 
free from each other or the lateral or all united, equal or the upper or 
posterior (anterior when the ovary is straight) larger or smaller; 
inside these are two segments (petals) which are equal or unequal to 
the sepals and free or united to the upper sepal to form a hood arching 
over the column, and in the same whorl with these and opposite the upper 
sepal is found the labellum, usually larger than the other perianth- 
segments, and often provided with rows of hairs, fleshy crests or spurs. 
Within the perianth is the column, composed of the combined androe- 
cium and style and stigma ; it is free from or united to the labellum, 
sometimes produced at its base into a foot- like prolongation, and often 
bears appendages at the top and sides. Crowning the column, or at 
