47 ARTOCARPUS INTEGRIFOLIA. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A large tree, very generally cultivated over the warmer parts 
of Asta. It does not, in general, attain to any great height ; 30 
or 40 feet may be reckoned a high tree ; but with a very exten- 
sive, densely ramous, ever-green, shady head ;_ particularly when 
standing single. Flowering time the cool season ; fruit ripe in 
four or five months thereafter. 
The fruit of this tree is so universally well-known, that it is 
unnecessary to say any thing respecting it; nor of the seeds, 
which, when roasted, are not inferior to chestnuts. In Ceylon, 
where the tree grows most plentifully, and where the fruit attains 
its greatest size, and perfection, it forms a considerable part of the 
diet of the natives, at particular times of the year. 
The wood is like mahogany in colour, after it has been some 
time exposed to the air, and in some parts of India is used to make 
furniture of. 
The Hindoos prepare bird-lime from the tenacious, milky 
juice, which abounds in all the uneatable parts of the fruit, and 
young, tender parts of the tree. 
EXPLANATION OF THE FIGURES. 
The principal figure is a flower-bearing branchlet issuing from 
the trunk; natural size. 
a. An entire male floret. b. The same with one of the valvulets 
removed, to shew the stamen. 
c. An entire female floret. d. A vertical section of the same, 
which exposes the pistil. These four are much magnified. 
251. HEDYCHIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate. Sprkes open; fascicles of flowers 
subtern. Segments of the cleft lip oblong ; the other five seg- 
ments of the corol all linear. 
Hedychium angustifolium. Botan. Regist. 157. 
Bowsada, the Hindoo name. 
Native of Chittagong, Silhet, and eastern parts of Bengal, where 
it flowers about the beginning of the rains in June. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Root tuberous, horizontal, jointed, &c. as in the other Scitaminous 
plants. Stems erect, 3-6 feet high, entirely invested in the 
sheaths of the leaves. 
smooth sheaths, narrow-lanceolate, very fine, I may say 
filiform, pointed, smooth on both sides; length 10-14 inches, 
by 1-2 broad. 
Spike terminal, erect, rigid, 6-18 inches long, smooth. Fascicles 
Leaves bifarious, sessile on their 
of flowers generally three-fold, and spread out considerably 
from the rachis. 
Bractes exterior of the fascicle cylindrically-linear ; cnéerior one 
to each flower, and smaller. 
Flowers, rather small, dull red, (lateritious), generally about four 
in the fascicle, and expand in succession. 
Calyx superior, cylindric, length of the tube of the corol ; mouth 
unequally 3-toothed. 
Corol. Tube slender, cylindric, about an inch long ; 5 segments 
of the border linear, (sub-filiform,) variously revolute. Lip 
HEDYCHIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM. 48 
lateral, with linear, channelled claw, and two parted lamina, 
the segments thereof semi-oval. 
Filament opposite to the lip, and twice its length, nearly straight, 
filiform, grooved for the style. Anther two-lobed, naked. 
Germ oval, a little hairy, 3-celled, with many ovula in each, 
attached to the axis. Style filiform, its base embraced by 
the usual two subulate bodies. Stzgma funnel form, projects 
from the apex of the anther. 
Capsule oval, smooth, size of an olive, 3-celled, 3-valved, opening 
from the apex. 
Seeds numerous, bright lucid red, and partly invested in a deep 
red, laciniate aril. 
Embryo simple, sublanceolate, both ends obtuse, and amply fur- 
nished with both albumen and vitellus. 
HEDYCHIUM GRACILE  R. 
Leaves \anceolar. Spikes terminal, open, flowers solitary, 
scattered ; segments of the bifid short-clawed lip semi-lanceolar, 
the other five linear. 
Catteah lauffear. Hind. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A slender species, of about three feet in height; a native of 
the Garrow hills, and like the former, blossoms during the rainy 
season. Its white solitary flowers, and lanceolar leaves, readily 
distinguish it from angustifolium. 
Of this species the outline of a leaf, and a single dissected 
flower are figured, at the bottom of tab. 151. 
252. ALPINIA COSTATA  Roxs. 
Leaves linear-lanceolar, villous underneath. Spikes radical, lax. 
Lip ovate-lanceolate, entire. Capsules pedicelled, ovate-oblong, 
nine ribbed. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A native of the hilly countries in the vicinity of Si/het, where 
the plant is called Dow-Terrah. It blossoms about the beginning 
of the rains, in June: and the fruit ripens in September, when 
they are gathered, and sold to the dealers in drugs. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Root tuberous, kc. as in the other species. 
Stems in clusters from the same root, from erect in the centre, to 
patent on the outside of the clump, invested in the sheaths 
of the leaves, 2-4 feet high, and about as thick as a slender 
walking cane. 
Leaves petioled above their sheaths, linear-lanceolar, downy 
underneath ; 2-3 feet long, by 2-4 inches broad. 
Sheaths villous, and rise in an obtuse ligula above the insertion of 
the leaf. 
Spikes radical, oblong, laxly-imbricated, rising but little above 
the earth ; lower part, or scape, hid in the soil, and clothed 
with shorter scariose bractes. 
