( 3039 ) 



Hedychium flavum. Large Yellow- 

 flowered Hedychium. 



Class and Order. 



MoNANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Scitamine^. Br. ) 



Generic Character. 



Anthera duplex,, stylum amplectens. Filamentum Ion- 

 gum, gracile, antheram in apicem sustinens ligamento 

 flexili dorso affixo. Capsula 3-locularis. Semina nume- 

 rosa, arillata. Rose. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Hedychium jlavum; foliis lato - lanceolatis, spica terminali 

 imbricata, bracteis subquadrifloris, corollas, laciniis 

 d nab us interioribus linearibus, labello obcordato apice 

 profunde retuso. Roxb. 



Hedychium flavum*. Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 1. p. 81. (cum nota 

 Wallichii ad calcem paginae 82). Lodd. Bot. Cab. 

 t. 604. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. I. p. 9. cur. post. p. 6. 

 Rose. PI. Scit. cum ic. 



Descr. Roots exceedingly large and thick. Stems seve- 

 ral, thick, four to five feet high, at the bottom fully an inch 

 in diameter, slightly compressed upwards, and there, as 

 well as on the rib of the leaves, furnished, though scantily, 

 with long, appressed, deciduous hairs. Leaves very large, 

 elliptical, twelve to fourteen inches long, as broad as one's 

 hand, nearly sessile on their sheaths, sides bent down, up- 

 per 



* Not of Sims in Botanical Magazine, t, 2378, which is Hed. Jlavescens. 

 (Wall.) 



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