Hedychium. MONANDRIA MONOGY NIA. 18 
folium, of a pale yellow colour.—Calyz very slender, somewhat - 
shorter than the filiform, inch and half-long tube ; mouth obliquely 
bifid .— Border smooth; segments linear, sub-clavate, spreading, half 
the length of the tube; divisions of the claw, or superior segment 
of the interior border, linear-oblong, obtuse.— Filament as long as 
the tube, filiform, smooth, of a scarlet colour; Anther very short, 
ovate, two-lobed.—Germ densely villous ; stigma slightly ciliated. 
Obs. This beautiful species differs from H. gracile, R. (of which 
the Rev. Dr. W. Carey has, favored me with a living specimen in 
blossom), in the length and-villosity of its spikes, its copious fascicled 
flowers, and the equal length of all the ee of the border. It 
— s a larger plant. _ A ee x 
5. H. speciosum. Wall. 
Spike elongated, open, smooth; fascicles approximate ocattonale 
two-flowered ; lip entire sessile, acute. A native of the same coun- 
try with the preceding, and like all the species flowering in the rainy 
season. 
Khasee name, Kattia Lung Mutti. 
Leaves very large, oblong-lanceofate, attenuate at both ends, mes 
pointed ; margins slightly waved.—Spike terminal, large FTS 
spreading and numerous.— Bractes; exterior very large, obtuse, as 
well as the others, with a few white hairs at the end.— Interior, (ij: 
opposite; that close to the rachis obtuse, with a few loothlets at the * 
end ; the other much smaller, linear-lanceolate, acute.— Flowers pale > 
yellow, fragrant—Calyxr cylindric, half the length of the tube; © 
mouth obliquely bifid, with two or three ottite, bearded teeth: Tube ` 
upwards of two inches long, filiform.— Er “segments linear, very - 
_ long, of a greenish colour ; interior clavate. qu of equal length with ^ 
the interior segments, ovate, acute, tapering downwards.—- —“Filament 
filiform, scarlet, somewhat EU than the tube; Anther joco 
arched, 
fined ws a well preserved ee and a few. eaves, only, w 
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