36i 



it is now very rarely employed ; and we are told by Dr. Cullen, that 

 the decoaum ad laericos of the Edinburgh Difpenllitory, (Ed. 1756) 

 t' never had any other foundation than the dodrine of fignatures ia 

 favour of the Curcuma and Cheledonium majus." ^ 



•» Mat. Med. vol. i. />. 25. 



K/E iM P F E RIA ROTU N D A 



ZED GARY 



.^s 



STNONTMA. Zedoarla. Fharm.Lond. 'k^ Edlnh, L Zedoarla 



longa 



II. Zedoaria rotunda. 



Bauh. Pin. p. 31. Park. neat. p. 



/ 



1D12. 



Kali Hi/I. p. 1 340. Gerard^ Efnac, p. 

 Rheed.' Hort. Malah, totn. 11./. 17. tab. 9.^ 



1623 



Malan-Kua 



» 



Clafs Monandria. Ord. Monogynla. Lin. Gen. Plant. 7. 



^ 



EJf. Gen. Ch, Cor. 6-partita : laciniis 3 majorlbus 



uQica 



bipartita. Stigma bilamellatum. 



i ^ 



Sp, Cb, 



K. fol. lanceolatis petiolatis. 



/ 



THE root IS perennial, tuberous, flefhy, comprefled, externally of 



alh colour, internally of a bluifh grey : the flower ftem is covered 



with fheath 



d rifes very 



above the ground 



leaves are 



large, radical, nearly elliptical, pointed, veined, and Hand upon broad 

 footftaiks : the calyx is fmall and obfcure : the corolla is monopetalous, 

 confifting of a long flender conical tube, divided at the upper 

 mity into fi 



inferted below the others, of which two are oval, pointed, and ered 

 the remaining one is deeply cut into two obverfely heart-fhaped 

 " ■" ns, of a reddifh colour, and beautifully flriated with, purple: 



X parts, three of which are long, narrow, fpreading 



d i V ifi o 

 there 



but 



fil 



which is memb 



d 



otched 



end : the anthera k linear, doubled, entii*ely adhei 



d fcarcely 



rifes above the tube of the corolla; the germen is roundifh, and fup 



port 



/ 



