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HEDYCHIUM datum. 



Comtesse de Vftndes Garland-flower 



MONANDRIA MOA'OOYNI^L 



Nat. ord. Canna:. Jussieu gen. 02. 



Scitaminej*:. Brown prod. 1. 305. 

 HEDYCJIIUM. Corolla', tubo longo EfiacilJ; Jimbo utroquc Iripartito, 

 interiore resupinato. Antkera duplex, nuda. CoT^SM/ft, 3-locularis, 3-valvis: 



semina iiumerosa, arillata. Embryo simplex, ct perispermo ctvitello dotatus. 

 Roxb.fi. ind. 9; (i textu angl.J 



H. elatum, foliis oblon go-Ian ceolatis glabris, spicis laxis; fasciculis tcrnis 

 subtrifloris, laciniis intcrioribus limhi cunoato-lincaribus, labolli laminft 

 bifida. Brown MSS. 



Caulis H-Hi-pedalis. Folia inj'criora elliptico-lanccolata, aupcriora ob- 

 longo-lanceolata, omnia acumine subulato-filij'ormi dtiiis marcesccnti. Spica 

 Q-uncialis: fasciculis distinctis, sispissime terms, patentilms, irijloris. Ova- 

 rium (germcn) villosum. Periantliium exterius (calyx) spathaceum scariMum. 

 pubescens: intenus (corolla) tubo cylindraceo ockroleuco. Umbo eocteriore 

 tripartito ladniis angusto-linearibus acutis, interiore laciniis lateraUbus 

 cuneato-linearilms apice parum dilatato obliquo: labellum ungue brevi lato- 

 lineari, lamind circmnscriptione ovatd lobis dimidiato-ovatis obtusiMscntu. 

 Filameiitum labello longius. Anthene linearis basi bifidd lobis poUmiferis. 

 Stigma cyatkiforme ifidivisum. ciliatum. Nectaria (stamina stenlia) 2, bre- 

 vissima, teretiuscula , approximata. Brown MSS. 



An unrecorded species, determined and described by 

 Mr. Brown from native samples in the Banksian Museum, 

 of which that gentleman is now, fortunately for science, in 

 the well-earned possession. The samples formed part of a 

 collection of Nepaulese plants transmitted by Dr. Wallich, 

 the able superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, by 

 whom, as was plain from the inscribed notice, they had 

 been taken for speciosuniy accurately des(»ibed by himself 

 in the Flora Indica of Roxburgh; but on examination by 

 Mr. Brown, proved to be essentially distinct from that 

 species. 



In speciosum the spike is much longer, the fascicles scat- 

 tered and 2-flowered, and the label of the flower entire and 

 sharp-pointed, in elatum the spike is much shorter, the fas- 

 cicles in verticiUi (whorls) of three, and 3-flowered, and the 

 label bifid with bluntish lobes. 



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