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Hedychium. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 9 
nate, three-sided; pretty smooth, size of a gooseberry, S Gia E w 
three-valved, opening from the apex.— Seed solitary, nearly round, 
smooth, dark grey, resting on a small, squamiform. aril, which i is at- 
tached P and surrounds the short umbilical cord which unites the. 
ed to the bottom of the partitiqn. — Integument double; exterior 
pongy; inner thin and rather hard, adhering to the exterior, and to 
the perisperm.— Perisperm conform to the seed, horny, tinged with 
pale blue; a fissure replete with a brown substance penetrates from. 
the base to a considerable distance upwards. — Embryo pure white, 
ooked, with the EE [s.d oru or tepopds. with the 
es € ad: m 
í a Pe SS dis 
x Corolla with a long, slender tube ; both borders Bse-páfiad : inner 
resupinate. Anther double, naked. emul three-celled, three-valved. 
Seeds numerous, arilled. Embryo simple, and furnished with both 
oum. and vitellus. 
1. H. coronarium. dini sp. . pl. ed. Willd. i P 10. Kn in teats . 
3. 3. 73. 
Leaves lanceolate. ‘Spikes compactly imbricated; |; segments of the 
ft lip of the corol semi-lunar. ibed auc s ts pon 
gue a iph. amb. 5. t 69: f. 8. pl s 
<-nathh a ‘of the Mn also P them called: | Dóolala-cham- 
A native of various ee and the scifi » provinces. - 
owers during the rains ; TE wee iia E 
L e cool season. i (AE i " 2 ee” 
- Root horizontal, perenni; ies feshy, ania si EE 
ns issuing from the cicatrices; taste simply herbaceous.-— Stems E 
rect, 3-4 feet high, round, every where covered with the sheaths of the 
leaves.— Leaves sessile, alternate, bifarious, lanceolate, tapering to 4 an 
'vanescent point; above, adeep smooth green; below, s striated, pal 
B ux 
ces, about as thick as a man's thumb, fleshy, with fibrous ramifica- — — 
