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Hedychium Coronarium*. Sweet- 

 Scented Garland-Flower. 



C/j/ir #7/^ Order. 



MoNANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 



Generic Charatler. 



Cal. 1-phyllus rumpens. Cor. tubus longiffimus limbus 2-plex 

 3-partitus, Ne&. 2-phyllum. 



Specific Char after and Synonyms. 



HEDYCHIUM coronarium. Willd. Sp. PL 1. 10. Kcenig apud 



Retxfafc. 5. p. 73. n. 20. 

 GANDSULIUM. Rumph. Amb. 5. ;>. 175. /. 69./ 3. Lamarck 



Encyc. 2. p. 603. 



This very rare plant of the natural order of Scitamine,e 

 or Cannae of Jussieu, is not met with in Martyn's Mil- 

 ler's Dictionary, though fully defcribed feveral years ago by 

 Kcenig. What this author calls calyx we fhould confider as 

 a Ipathe involving the feparate flowers. Tube of corolla very- 

 long and foon becoming flaccid, which occafions the flower 

 to droop. Limb divided into fix fegments, the three outer 

 ones linear-lanceolate, keeled, regular, one or two of them 

 reflected : the three inner fegments are irregular and fubjeft 

 to confiderable variation in their form, the upper one is much 

 largeft and obcordate. The whole flower is fnow-white, ex- 

 cept fome times a greenifh fpot, in the centre of the largeft 



fegment. 



A nxori compounded of HdV? ftveet and Xiwj fnow, from iivo of the qualities 

 of the jiar.t. Our Englifh name is adopted from the German, 



