Hedychium. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 11 
vitellus together conform to the seed; the former occupies the lower 
and exterior portion ; and the latter the upper and interior portion, 
and is in immediate contact with the embryo c Embryo simple, sub- 
cylindric, nearly as long as the seed. 
Obs. This, to me, is the most charming of all the plants of this 
natural order that I have yet met with; the great length of time it 
continues to throw outa profusion of large, beautiful, fragrant blos- 
soms, makes it particularly desirable. 
2. H. angustifolium. R. 
Testen meto ceri ec Spikes open; iocis of flowers sab’ 
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Beng. Bhoo atk , ix n : 
Native of Chittagong, Silhet, and the castor pate ror pe 
where it flowers about the beginning of the rains, in June. 
Root tuberous, horizontal, jointed, &c. as in the other scitamineous 
plants.— Stems erect, 3-6 feet high, entirely invested in the sheaths _ 
of the leaves.— Leaves bifarious, sessile on their smooth sheaths, nar- 
row-lanceolate, very fine, I may say filiform, pointed, smooth on both 
sides ; length 10-14 inches, by 1-2 broad.— Spike terminal, erect, ri- 
gid, 6-18 inches long, smooth. Fascicles of flowers generally three- - 
fold, and spreading out considerably from the rachis .— Bractes, exteri- 
or ofthe. fascicle cylindrical, linear ; interior, one to each lower, and 
smaller.— ! s rather small, dull red { laterituus, ) generally about 
four in the fascicle, and expanding in succession — Calyx superior, cylin- 
dric, length of the tube of the corol; mouth equally three-toothed.—Co- 
rol; tube slender, cylindric, about an inch long ; 5 segments of the bor- 
der linear (sub-filiform,) variously revolute. Lip lateral, with linear, 
channelled and two-parted lamina ; ; the segments thereof semi-oval.— - 
Filament opposite to the lip, and twice its length, nearly straight, 
filiform, grooved for the style. Anther two-lobed, naked.— Germ. oval, 
a Aie iu Abre ce with many ovula i in each, attached ep 
