cultivated (as ,1. Agallocha is in Siam) for its seeds, or 

 like the^true ginger, for its rhizomes. The latter are very 

 aromatic, and smell and taste a good deal like the officinal 

 plant ; they are, however, very much larger, at least three 

 times as thick, are much more shortly and irregularly 

 branched, and the branches are thickened in the middle. 



Djssob. Rhizomes an inch and more in diameter, 

 irregularly branched ; branches short, slightly flattened, 

 tumid in the middle ; internodes about half an inch apart, 

 colour pale yellowish-brown ; odour of common ginger. 

 Stems four to five feet high, about as thick as a swan's 

 quill at the base, leafy throughout. Leaves ten to twelve 

 inches long by about three inches broad, oblanceolate- 

 cblong, narrowed from above the' middle to the base, acute 

 and abruptly cuspidate, quite glabrous, perfectly smooth, 

 base acute, contracted into a very short petiole above the 

 sheath ; hgule of the sheath short, obtuse, ciliate ; deep 

 green above with a pale broad midrib, yellowish-green 

 beneath. Panicle ten to twelve inches long, nearly erect ; 

 rachis green, puberulous ; basal sheath very long and 

 narrow, equalling the panicle, rather persistent; side 

 branches erecto-patent, an inch long, three- to five-flowered; 

 floral bracts short, scarious ; pedicels one-sixth to a quarter 

 of an -inch long, puberulous. Flowers erect, an inch long 

 from the ovary to the stigma. Calyx cylindric, obtusely 

 three-lobed, as long as and appressed to the corolla-tube, 

 about one-third of an inch long. Corolla with the lateral and 

 dorsal lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, concave, pale green, the 

 dorsal rather the largest. Lip as long as the lobes, broadly 

 ovate, obtuse, contracted into a short broad claw, crenate, 

 surface undulate transversely, white with crimson veins 

 radiating' from a broad yellow-green midrib. Staminodes 

 of two horn-like processes, with scarlet bases projecting 

 at right angles from the base of the lip. Filament 

 exserted, puberulous ; anther-cells linear, rather longer 

 than the connective, which is thickened and puberulous at 

 the back. Ovary globose ; style very slender, puberulous, 

 stigma minute. — J. D. II. 



Fig. 1, Flower-bud ; 2, lip and staminodes; 3, side, and 4, front view of anther; 

 5, ovary, stylodes aud style ; 6, transverse section of ovary ; 7, ovule :— all enhirjcd. 



