( 2078 ) 



Hedychium angusti folium. Narrow- 

 leaved Hedychium. 



4 m+$ ♦♦♦♦♦$♦♦♦♦♦ ■ 



Class and Order. 



MoNANDRIA MoNOGYNlA. 



Generic Character. 



Anthem duplex. Filam. gcniculatum extra antheram non 

 elongatum. Stylus filatnento duplo langior, filiformis, tena- 

 cissimus, in sulco antheraa rcceptus. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Hedychium anguslifolium ; foliis lanceolatis spica stricta, 

 bracteis imbricatis convolutis multifloris, laciniis lineari- 

 bus, stamine longissimo. 



Hedychium angustifolium. Bot. Reg. 157. Roxb. Fl. lnd. 

 inedita Coromandel Plants, 3. t. 251. 



Hedychium coccineum. Smith in Recs' Cyclopesd. ? 



This is a very beautiful plant and also fragrant, though 

 not altogether of so pleasing a scent as Hedychium cor&na- 

 rium. The flowers, when first expanded, are of a delicate 

 light buff, inimitable by art, which changes to a red orange, 

 but hardly to a scarlet colour ; except the stamen. We 

 suspect it to be the variety of coccineum mentioned by Dr. 

 Buchanan, which Sir James E. Smith is inclined to think 

 may be a distinct species. 



Native of the eastern parts of Bengal, and, if the same 

 with Dr. Buchanan's plant, of Upper Nepal also. With us 

 it is the inhabitant of the stove, where it is very ornamental. 

 Flowers the latter end of the year. Communicated from the 

 collection of James Vere, Esq. by Mr. Blake, his gardener, 

 in November last year. 



