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cd in the general systems. Five others have appeared in 



Dr. Roxburgh's work; one, if not two, in Curtis's Botan- 

 ical Magazine; and two have been published In the Botan- 

 ical Register ; besides those which may have been recorded 

 by Sir James Smith in Rees's Cyclopedia, the volumes of 

 which we happen at this moment not to have at hand to 

 refer to. The genus is said to be daily increasing in our 

 collections ; and the major part of it to be derived from 

 Nepal and the adjacent countries^ the most copious sources 

 of its various species. 



The following is the array of the species known to us. 



TTi Jyclilinu spicatum. Curtis's magaz. tab. 2300. 



'Hed} cliiuiu coronarium, Curtis's magaz. 708. 



lit (lychium hcteromalhira. Supra tab. 707. 



Hedychium flavnm. Curtis's viagaz, #a6. 2378; (vix tamcn WaUichii in 



Jlor. iiuL !• 81.) 

 iridycliium coccinenm. Smith in Rtes's oyclop. in loco. 

 TTodychintn angustifoliuiii. Supra tab. 157- 

 lledycliium gracile. Ituxh.Jlor. i 



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lledycliiuui villo 



Hedychium speciosum. Waltich it 

 UvdynKunn tliitiim. Sitpra tab. 5:^0, 

 lIcdychMim gardnorianuin. Tn loco pra^senti. 



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tural size. The foliag 

 diminished. 



presented in our plate of the 



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CORRIGENDUM. 



Tu fullo 7GG of tlic last fasciculus, in tlie third line of the specific charac- 

 ter of BromeliA mclananihn, by a slip iu writing, the word " calyce '^ has 

 been used, instead uf *' gtiiuiue. 



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