12 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, ` Hedychium. - 1 
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3. M. gracile. R. ; 
Leaves lanceolar. Spikes terminal, open ; mers solitary, scat- 
tered ; segments of the bifid, sessile lip, semi-lanceolar, the other 
five segments of the corol linear. 
Khasee name, Kattia Laphya. 
Obs. This is a slender species, about three feet in height, a native 
of the mountains on the. North-East border of Bengal. Like the pre- 
ceding two species it flowers in the rainy season. Its solitary-flow- 
ered spike of white* corols with their scarlet filament, and its lan- 
ceolar leaves, distinguish it from H. angustifolium. 
Note. The following two species, dades since the Author of this 4 
work left the Botanic Garden, are added by Mr. N, W: allich, the 
present scale of that institution. 
4 “Spike dong, villous, epe: Fascicle approximate and co- 
pious, scattered or paired, three-flowered ; lip short-clawed, bifid,” 
of equal length with the five linear sayniatite of the corol. 
A native of the mountains North-East of Bengal, from whence 
our indefatigable collector of plants, Mr. Matthew Robert Smith, 
sent specimens to me in 1815, Flowering time the rainy season. 
Khasee name, Kattia Ram Rait. 
Stems upright, ‘slender, smooth, as well as the leaves, from ee? | 
to three feet — Leaves flat, lanceolar-oblong, elevated from the back 
of the sheaths bya very short petiole ; glaucous underneath, Sheaths — 
terminated by an oblong, obtuse, closely adpressed, k 1 E 
“Spike terminal, erect, cylindric, obtuse, from 10-12 | inc long; 
all its parts covered with a short, sericeous down. me 1 re 
mich shorter than the tube, of a reddish tnt; exterior or com= 
mon, three, seldom two-flowered, flat ; interior, one to each flower, — 
the base of which it embraces Flowers delightfully fragrant even : 
when dry, less succulent t those of H. coronarium and angusti- 
, : : Na Oe (00:15:80 SW. x 
Ed, >, Rath 
