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42. Ros = MONANDRIA MONOGYXLA. eee ie Amon mee 
| edi dob kim: is a small hortjek.. Auther double, or tw 
n and crowned. "A a beautiful, broad, semi-lunar < crest. Ne 
sii idelled, Mad, three-celled, with nci ts in cach, e 4 
ed tothe inner angle, (aris). Style slender. Stigma funnel-shaped, 4 
, | but shut transversely, except during anthesis Hee PEE almost glo- + 
bular, size of a gooseberry, three-celled, three-valved, ornamented with. T 
nine, firm, short, ragged (when old, and dry) membranaceous wings | $ 
Obs. The seeds possess a warm, pungent, aromatic taste, not un- 4 
like that of Cardamoms, but by no means so grateful. | 
5. A. dealbatum. R. Eus 
Leaves: broad-lanceolar, Villousddderbeutit: bois cided, bractes 
lanceolate, obtuse, (very perishable.) Exterior border vaulted. Lip 
i round-oval, Crest of one, broad, truncated I lobe. Capsules ovate 
| form the eastérm frontier of r Boa; Bot the former it has been intros E 
ducedi into the Botanic Garden near Calcutta, where it grows luxurie | T } 
antly, and flowers freely during the months of March and ae ad | 
the seeds ripen in September and October. 3 
— Roots perennial, tuberous, crooked, jointed, creeping, like cotati” : 
quies, with strong, fleshy fibres; inward colour of the tubers pale 1 
dull yellow, and when newly cut considerably aromatic.—Stems nu- - 
merous, erect in the centre, and ‘oblique in the circumference o 
i ‘the clump, from three to five feet high.— Leaves sub-bifarious, t he 
_ lower sessile on their sheaths and oblong, the superior short-petiolec 
‘and lanceolar ; all are very villous, and paler und erieath, length n 
ie ‘to eats NE inches, breadth. from. three to six. x.—Sheath 
-dfotitifih above: Scape short and imbricated wit scales, &c.— 
-Bractes from ovate to lanceolate, obtuse, very perishable, pale, one 
flowered. In this species there is no inner bracte, like an interior ca- 
"Wye attached to the base of the germ, so general in this natural ot- 
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