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HEDYCHIUM angustifolium, 
Ted Garland-flower, 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
‘Nat. ord. CANNm. Jussieu gen. 62. 
Scrraminta. Brown prod. 305. 
HEDYCHIUM. Authera duplex. Filam. (lineare) geniculatum, 
extra antheram non elongatum, Stylus filamento duplo longtor filiformis, 
tenacissimus, iu sulco anthera receptus. Roscoe in Trans. lin. soc. 8, 
349. 
H. angustifolium, spica sesfariám decussata patentissima è fasciculis 
subtrifloris verticillato-ternis : labello didymo. 
Hedychium angustifolium, Roxb. corom. 3. t. 251. 
Hedvchium coccinemn. Smith in Rees's cyclop. in loco. 
Rhizoma carnosum, perenne, subtuberoso-incrassatum, stoloniferum. Caules 
erecti, simplices, inflorescentiá tenits vaginati petiolis fistulosis y Folia 
bifaria, patentia, decrescentia: petioli iniìs trans pedem lamine membranâ 
tenui semivaginante ovato-rotundá ochreati: lamine ad maximum pedales v. 
parúm longiores, unciam late, ovato-lanceolate, longè attenuate, aristato- 
cuspidatee, nervis rectis parallelis ascendentibus costá mediâ utrinque. eductis 
conferta striate. Inflor. terminalis, composita, spicata, stricta, cylindracen, è 
Jasciculis numerosis rard quadriforis, vix excedens folia; rachis robusta, ri» 
gida, virens, Spatharum foliola arctè invicèm amplexa, exteriora herbacea, 
calyci equalia, interiora membranosa, flores distinguentia. Flores sessiles, 
aubbiunctales, miniati, odorati. Germ. hirsutum. Cal. superus, membranosus, 
tubulosus, subdiaphanus, 3 partes uncia longus, corollam infra arct? vaginans, 
Breve ct obtuse 3-dentatus, hinc longiàs dehiscens, extús rarè pubescens. Cor. 
1-pet. tubulosa, resupinata, nitens; tubus teres, uncialis, paul) pennâ passerind 
crassior; limbus duplex, exterior 3-partitus, tantillim longior tubo, laciniis 
«egualibus, flaccidis, angusté ligulatis, involutis, acutis; interior tripartitus, 
Jirmior, difformis, bilabialus, laciniis lateralibus 2 subbrevioribus lanceolato-line- 
aribus infra attenuatis, media (labello) insidente ungui longo lineari, laminá fat 
obcordato-bilobâ lobis elliptico-oblon, is obtusis, suprá diver, entibus. Truneuli 
thalamei 2, lutei, connati, teretiusculi in summo germine. Fil, in tubi ore posi- 
tum, farè duplo longius labello, crussiusculum, inclinato-porrectum, canalicu- 
tum, corolla concolor, parúm attenuatum. — Anth. coccinea, lincaris, basi sub- 
sagittata, vix 4 partem unciar longa, ex loculis 2 linearibus marginalibus, pro 
tribus suis partibus adnatis filamento. Stylus viz filo bombacyno crassior, 
pardm allior stamine. Stig. exiguum, viride, triquetro-infundibuliforme. 
The fine natural order of plants to which the present 
belongs, has been lately illustrated by Mr. Roscoe, the 
accomplished historian of the Medici. . Of this genus, 
however, only one species, well known in our collections 
by the specific name of coronarium, had fallen under his 
observation. No other had been recorded until four were 
added by Sir James E, Smith, in Rees's Cyclopudia, from 
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