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HEDYCHIUM gardncrlanum. 



Mr. Gardner's Garland-flower. 



MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



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Nat.ord. Cann\e. JussicUy (/en. 62; f inclnsis SciT ami skis.) 



SciTAMiNE^, Brown prod, 1. 305; /^eac/wm Canneis.) 

 HEDYCHIVM: Supr^ vol 1. fol. 523. 



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culis plurifloris? distantibus, bracteis flores arete involventibus tubo per- 

 brevioribus ; laciuiis duabus interioribus cimeato-spathulatis cacumine 



ovato obtuso; labelli lamina obovata bifida lobis dlniiibatis obtuslusculis 



divergentibus, ungue brevi canaliculate; filanieiilo discolor}, corollam 

 siiperante. ' 



Hodychium gardnerianum. Sheppard in hort. UvcrpooL 



The drawing of this fine plant was taT\en in a hot- 

 house belonging to Mr. Hatfield, at the Alpha Cottages. We 

 were told^ that it had attained the height of about four feet; 

 but had no opportunity of seeing any part of the plant. 



The specific distinction has been derived from the an- 

 nexed fig-ure; and as far as we can judg-e consists in the 

 scattered numerous, somewhat oblong, broadly spreading 

 spike; several flowered distantly removed fascicles; bractes 

 much shorter than the tube, and enveloping the flowei-s 

 closely; two cuneately spatulate inner segments 



obtuse terminations; a labellum with an obovate two-cleft 

 lamina, the lobes of which are halved, divciging, and ob- 

 tuse; a short channelled unguis ; and a filament longer than 

 the corolla, and of a different colour. But the most strik- 

 ing distinction from all the species known to us seems to 

 be the great breadth of the inflorescence. 



The plant has been only lately received in this country 

 from the Calcutta garden ; where we hear it was introduced 

 by Mr. Gardner, the East India Company's resident at the 

 seat of the Nepal government. 



Of this genus our gardens, till of late yeai-^, contained 

 but one species, H. coronarium; and, indeed, until the ap- 

 pearance of the Flora Indica, that was the only one rccord- 



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