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Zingiber Casumunar. Casmunar or 

 Hairy Ginger. 



Cfa/jr #»</ Order. 



MONANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Anthera duplex. Filamentum extra antheram elongatum, 

 apice fubulatum, fulcatum. Stylus in fulco antherse receptus. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



ZINGIBER Cafumunar; caulibus ereQis, foliis feffilibus lineari- 

 lanceolatis : nervo vaginaque hirtis, fpicis compatlis 

 ftrobiliformibus, ne&ario bilobo crifpato. 



ZINGIBER Cafumunar. Roxl>, in Afiatic Refearches, vol. It. 



P*g- 347- iab > 7- 

 CASUMUNAR. Lewis Mat. Med. p. 193. ed. ±to. 



In Auguft laft we were highly gratified with the fight of this 

 very rare and curious plant, flowering probably for the firft time 

 in Europe, in the ftove of James Vere, Ef'q. at Kenfington- 

 Gore. 



Dr. Roxburgh, in his valuable account on the Scita- 

 mine^e, natives of the Eaft-Indies, publifhed in the eleventh 

 volume of the Afiatic Refearches, informs us that the root of 

 this plant appeared both to Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Combe 

 to be the Cafmunar of the (hops; a root introduced into this 

 country by Marloe, as a medicine of uncommon efficacy in 

 hyfteric, epileptic, paralytic, and other nervous diforders, 

 and Dr. Lewis obferves that, from its fenfible qualities, it 

 feems to deferve to have been more generally ufcd, being " an 

 elegant, mild aromatic, moderately warm, lightly biuerifh, in 



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