372 AN ATTEMPT TO DEFINE 
Wall. Cat. Herb. n. 6547. Bot. Reg. ii. n. 157 (excl. syn. H. coccinei). 
Bot. Mag. xlvi. n. 2078 (excl. eod. syn.).—H. aurantiacum, Rose. Mon. 
Pl.n.61. Spr. Cur. Post. p. 6. Dietr. Sp. p. 37. Dietr. Syn. p. 10.— 
H. coccineum, Bot. Cab. viii. n. 705. H. species, Griff. Op. Posth. il. 
p. 24. 0.871? Ibid. p. 35. n. 569? .H.squarrosum, Hamilt. in Herb. 
Banks. 
Patria, Montes Kasiani, Griffith et Wall. Hook. fil. et Thoms. (Ie. 
pict. due Hook.).—Goalpara, Hamilton.—Upper Assam, Mack et Grif- 
fith in Hb. Hook.—Sikkim, infer. et tractus terrayanus huic adjac. 
Hook. fil. (Ic. pict.\—Chittagong. Ceylona? Walker in Herb. Hook. 
The species, as far as I know, is confined to the eastern part of Hin- 
dustan ; I never saw it in Nipal, nor had it from the westward. The 
leaves are rigidly bifarious, not glaucous; their base obtuse and 
rounded, and the sides bent down. The spike is sexfarious, owing 
to the flowers, disposed in whorls of threes, regularly alternating with 
each other; which is peculiarly conspicuous before their expansion. 
With exception of the colour, Roscoe’s figure of H. aurantiacum, which 
I have quoted, is a perfect representation of our species. I quite agree 
in the remark of that author (under ‘his H. angustifolium, which, how- 
ever, I have expressly omitted quoting), that the figure in Roxburgh’s 
Coromandel Plants belongs to H. coccineum, while the description is 
that of H. angustifolium, it being Roxburgh's own species. I had long 
before come to the same conclusion in regard to his original drawing, 
preserved at the Calcutta Garden. No botanical author was ever more 
conscientiously accurate or trustworthy than Roxburgh ; but in this in- 
stance an error seems to have crept in, which I attribute to his painter 
having drawn a plant, raised from seeds or rhizomas sent down by Dr. 
Hamilton from Nipal, where H. angustifolium does not grow, but in- 
_ stead of it, the nearly allied if not identical H. coccineum. 
15. H. coccineum; foliis ensiformibus basi acutiusculis spicaque glaucis, 
nune pube parcá subtus conspersis, bracteis 3—6-floris, laciniis limbi 
interioris cultriformibus, labello ovato bilobo acutiusculo ungue brevi, 
stamine porrecto. " 
H. coccineum, Hamilt. in Cycl. Rees. xvii. in loco, n. 5. Icon. pict. 
in Mus. Proc. Brit. Ind. Or; Royle, Nat. Hist. Himal. p. 357. 
Rom. et Sch. Mant. p. 14. Spreng. Syst. i. p. 9. Dietr. Sp. i. 
p.36. Dietr. Syn. i. p. 10. Wall. apud Roxb. in Fl. Ind. i. p. 8? 
(in nota). Ic. pict. in Mus. cit. Cat. Herb. n. 6548. Bot. Reg. 
