398 THE SPECIES OF HEDYCHIUM. 
and is readily known in all the stages of the inflorescence by the closely 
approximated, cylindrically convolute or piped; and gently recurved 
bracts. The flowers are white throughout. Tt is very common in Nipal. 
B. Spicate. Spica elongata. Bractew distantes, patule. 
5. H. spicatum ; foliis lato-lanceolatis, bracteis planis vel leviter convo- 
lutis tubo. dimidio brevioribus, limbi laciniis linearibus stamineque 
labello ovato obtuse bilobo breve unguiculato brevioribus, interiori- 
bus latioribus: | 
H. spicatum, Hamilt. l.c. n. 3. Royle, Nat. Hist. Himal. p. 357 et 
358, Spreng. Syst. p. 9. Cur. Post. p. 7. Dietr. Sp. p. 33. . Dietr. 
Synops. p. 9. Bot. Mag. xlix. n. 2300. Hook. Exot. Fl.i. n. 46. 
Rose. l.c. n. 48; Wall. Cat. Herb. n. 6553.— f. album, Ham. in 
Herb. Smith. 
B. trilobum; spicà pauciflorà, bracteis convolutis unifloris, lobulo 
brevi cuspidato in sinu labelli.—Z7. trilobum, Wall. n. 6554. Id. apud 
Rose. l.c, in obs. generi prefix. et ad ZZ. spicatum. Dietr: Sp. p. 31. 
Dietr. Syn. p. 10, 
y- acuminatum ; bracteis convolutis subunifloris, labelli lanceolati lo- 
bis acuminatis, — 77. acuminatum, Rose. l.c. n. 47. Spreng. Cur. Post. 
p. 6. Dietr. Sp. p. 34, Dietr. Syn. p. 9. Bot. Mag. lvii. n. 2969. Bot. 
Cab. xviii. n. 1795. ; 
` Patria. Napalia. Kamaon. Rupes calcar Mussuri, Royle et Thoms. 
Jug. Suen in lat. sept. 30°, ad elev. ped. 6000 ad 7000, Royle, lc. 
Sikkim, ad alt. ped. 5000, Z72. Hook. jun. cujus Icon. pict. Jug. kasian. 
Id. et Thomson (Ic. pict. prioris, etiam Cathcart). 
This is the commonest Hedychium in Nipal, where it blossoms 
during six months of-the year. The flowers are white; in var. y. yel- 
lowish, with orange claw and stamen. . was originally introduced 
into the Calcutta Garden in 1817, by the Hon. E. Gardner, and after- 
wards observed by me in the great valley of Nipal, but sparingly. 
6. H. venustum; foliis lanceolatis, Spicá nutante, bracteis subconvolu- 
tis unifloris, laciniis limbi linearibus, labello lanceolato acute bifido 
stamen superante, capsulis villosis. 
H. venustum, Wight le. vi. p. 17. t. 2012.—H. cernuum, Wight, 
ibid. t. 2011. 
Patria. Coorg? Wight. Jugum nilagirieum, Id. et Hawtayne. ` 
The authority of Dr. Wight as a systematie botanist is far too 
