erect oblong, obtuse, flesliy, •white ; cajoSa/e obloQg-trigonoua, dehiscent ; seeds iew^ oblong
cylindric, obtuse, arillate; arillus las, laciniate, white; testa coriaceous, shining. Roran.
I'rodr. 24 (1862); Bak. in Soolc. f . Flor. Brit. Ind. vi. 224 (1890). Curcuma
glaacophylla Wall. Cat. 6594 (1832).
BUEMA: Prome; Wallich.
PLATE 85.—Hitchenia glauoa Wall. 1, rhizome and base of stem reduced J from "Wallioli's original
drawing; 2, inflorescence, oE natural size, from the same; 3, flower, with buds of a single bi-aot; 4,
corolla lobes, stamens and staminodes, dissected; 5, oalys, opanad; bract, and ovary ; 6, anther with upper
part of style i'rt si'/«; 7, the same, upper part of style removed; 8, apes of style, and stigma; 9, capsule ; 10,
the same fully dehiscent; 11,12,13, seeds, with arillus; 14, seed greatly enlarged; 15, the same, in vertical
section, embryo in diu; 16, the same, embryo removed; 17, embryo.
E. K.; D. P.
PLATE 86.
Ü3. HEDYCHIOJI LUTEUII [R. Thorns. Mss."] in Merl. Oalciitt.; Bah in EooJc. f . Flor.
Brit. Ind. vi. 232 (1892).
Natural order Scitaminoze.
A rather slender h e r b ; leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acumiDate, 25 cm. long, 5—6
cm. wide, medium-green above, pale-green beneath; «^í'ií! short, 6 em. long, bracts ovate,
medium-green with pale margin, closely imbricate, 2'5 cm. long, 2 cm. wide; cahjx Z c,xa
long, just overtopping the bracts, bractooles half as long as calyx; corolla-iyihe 5 cm.,
pDle greenish-yellow below, rather darker upwards, segments linear, 3 cm., pale-yellow;
staminodes ovate-lanceolate, lemoa-yellow; Up lemon-yellow, orbicular, 2 cm. wide, bifid to
one-third ita diameter, the lobes slightly angled, abruptly narrowed to a rounded base
above a distinct claw 7 '5 mm. long ; stamen lemon-yellow, 1 cm. long, filament paler yellow,
2-Ó cm.; stylodes short, obtuse, subconical.
ASSAM : Oldham.
This very distinct species is only known from an escellent coloured drawing made at
Calcutta under the supervision of Dr. T. Thomson, when Siiperinteadeiit of the Royal
Botanic Garden. Whether, in attaching the name B. lutcum to the drawing, Thomson
supposed that this plant is the Eedi/chium luienm of English gardeners to which
reference is made by Link in Enim. Rort. Borol. i. 443 (1821), or whether the name,
which is sufficiently appropriate, was intended to indicate a previously unknown apecies,
cannot now be satisfactorily determined. The date of the drawing is November 1854.
As the species has been described by Mr. Baker from a copy of this drawing and as
the plant seems to be rare—at all events it has not been again collected in Assam—
we have thought it advisable to publish a copy of tho drawing.
PLATE 86.—Hedychium lutenra T. Thorns. 1, upper portion of flowering stem; 2, AOWCT and bud
from axil of one bract; 3, 4, bracteoles,—P/nffííf-n/ «¿se; C, staraen and stigma; 6, ovary,—¿oí/i
e/il(!Tg<d; 7, tranverse section of 07S.iy,—mnah enlarged.
G. K.; D. P.
91. ZINGIBEE PARDOCHEILUM Wall. • Vo Hort. SuUrh. Caleuti. 562 (1845).
Natural order Scitamine®.
A stout leafy h e r b ; rootstook horizontal, composed of a scries of close-set subspherical
tubers, with numerous stout roots; leafy stem 40 cm. long 1-5 cm. thick; leaves oblong,
lanceolate, acute, 30 cm, long, 7—8 cm. wide, mouth of the sheath with pale, oblong, obtuse
aui-icles 3'5 cm. long, sheath outside and leaves above dark-green, paler beneath, glabrous;
fiowers in dense, obconic, subturbinate, hardly pedunded spikes, flattened or rounded at tho
top, 8 cm. long, 6 cm. wide; bracts much imbricated, obovate-cuneate, truncate or emarginate,
dark-red, the outer 2-5 cm. long; reddish, 1'75 cm. long; corolla-ixxhn almost white,
as long as tho., outer bracts, segments lanceolate, acute, 1-75 cm. long, dark-rod at the tips,
rather paler b e l o w ; I ' D cm. long, deeply 3-lobed, the midlobe wide-oblong, the lateral
lobes orbicular, closely unifornJy tesselate with wide dark-lilac or purple linos on a
pale-yellow ground; stamen with narrow-oblong, "subsessile anther; cells close, parallel,
introrse, connective produced as a cobalt-blue, incurved, narrowly lanceolate, erect
crest 5 mm. long; ovary hirsute, subturbinate; stylo somewhat dilated at tho top,
with a fringe of short hairs surrounding the stigma; styhdes short, obtuse. Bak. in
HooLf. Flor. Brit. Ind. vi. 245 (1892).
BUEMA: Wallioh.
This beautiful species is only known from a fine coloured drawing in the Calcutta
Herbarium made, under the supervision of Dr. Wallich, from a living plant grown
in the Royal Botanic Garden; of this figure PLATE 87 is a copy. It is imblished
now in the hope thereby of attracting attention to the species and perhaps facilitating
its rc-discovery.
PLATE 87.^Zingiber pardocbeilnm Wall. 1, plant,—o/ natural size; 2, flower x 3;- 3, outer
bract; 4, inner bract; 5 and 6, corolla-lobes; 7, corolla-tabe, lip and stamen; 8, ovary and style,—
all enlarged.
Q. K.; D. P.
95; ZINGIBER CLAEKEI /{¿ny cx Bcnih. in Benth. EooJc. f . Gen. Flant. IIL
646 (1883).
Natural order Scitamincse.
A stoutish herb; leafy stem 15—18 dm. high; leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate,
30—45 cm. long, 5—10 cm. wide, the under surface finely pubescent; Jlowei-4 in
lateral, oblong-cylindrio spikes 8—10 cm. long, S'5—-4: cm. in diam., on nodding
pubescent peduncles 8—10 cm. long, springing from the side of the leafy st-em; mainbracts
oblong, 2'5 cm. long, obtuse or retuse, in flower green, in fruit pale-rod,
each 2—4-fld; eahjx yellowish, eubtruncate; coro/?a-tube as long as tho bracts,
pale-yellow, segments 2'5 cm. long, pale-yellow, the uppermost widest; lip as long
as the corolla-segments, irregularly ovate-oblong, yellow, the margins sufiused with
close-set brownish-purple streaks; siamon pale-yellow, nearly as long as the lip,
erest almost filiform eapsuls subglobose, greenish, herbaceous, shorter than the