specimens collected in India by Dr. Buchanan. We can 
scarcely doubt, that our plant is the coccineum of these, 
notwithstanding some slight differences in the detail, 
scarcely indeed exceeding such as might be expected in a 
description from the dried specimen, when referred to the 
living. But the identity of our plant with the angustifolium 
of the late Dr. Roxburgh being beyond a cavil, and the 
account of it having long been written under that title, 
and now actually printed in the forthcoming fasciculus of 
the work on the “ Plants of the Coast of Coromandel,” we 
feel ourselves warranted in adopting it, although not the 
one first published. 
The species was found by Dr. Roxburgh on the coast 
of Coromandel; by Dr. Buchanan in Upper Nepaul. Re- 
cently introduced into this country by Sir Abraham Hume, 
who has supplied the specimens gathered in his hothouse 
at Wormleybury from which the present drawing has been 
made, with his accustomed liberality. 
Rootstock fleshy, stoloniferous, perennial. Stems simple, 
upright, sheathed to the inflorescence by the fistular pe- 
tioles of the foliage. Leaves bifarious, patent, petioles 
surmounted within the foot of the blade by a broad 
rounded-ovate membranous ochrea: blade seldom exceed- 
ing a foot at the longest, ovate-lanceolate, narrow, far-ta- 
pered, awned-acuminate, streaked with close-set parallel 
ascending nerves issuing from each side the midrib. Zn- 
Rorescence substantial, straight, composite, loosely spiked, 
patent, in six rows, decussated, consisting of numerous 
3-4-flowered convolutely sheathed fascicles in whorls of. 
three, the whorls intersecting each other alternately : rachis 
or common peduncle green, smooth (as described in the 
orange-coloured variety of Sir J. Smith's coccineum), rigid, 
thick, from 3 to 4 inches in height or more, but not over- 
topping the foliage. Spathes rolled closely one within the 
other, outer valves or leaflets herbaceous, even with the, 
calyx, inner membranous, one to each flower. Flowers 
sessile about two inches long, of a soft vermilion colour, fra- 
grant, but not so richly so as in coronarium. Germen hirsute. 
Calyx membranous, tubular, semitransparent, 3 fourths of 
an inch long, closely fitted to the tube of the corolla which 
it sheaths, shortly and bluntly tridentate, having a deep 
rent on one side from the edge downwards, thinly pubes- 
cent. Corolla monopetalous, tubular, shining, of one 
colour; tube an inch long, not thicker than the stem of a 
