í 
dnt when’ ‘compared with the rest of this natural order.— Calya P 
 one-leaved, opening on one side, apex three-toothed.— 
k- imooth 
and  amnual.— Leaves sub-sessile on their long, vaginated sheaths, bi- 
-farious, lineàr-lanceolate, very smooth above, and nearly so under- ' 
neath. — Sheaths - smooth, crowned with a bifid. stipulary ligula.— 
| Peduncles radical, solitary, a littleremoved from the stems, from sixto | 
— margins coloured. - Lip three-lobed. | Bee: 
Amomum Zerumbet. Linn. Sp. PL. ed. Wild. 1. q ti = KAKI 
be Visus S ‘Butch, or mahaburee-butch. 
1 i : / a w 
Zingiber. ES EN mon ANDRIA NONOGYNIA- j E 2 
A 4 
Root substoun, bien — Stems erect, iad oblique, . invested i in 
sheaths of the leaves ; : generally three or four feet high, | - 
twelve inches long, enveloped in a few obtuse sheaths, the upper- 
most of which sometimes end in tolerably long leaves.—Spikes, vb. 
long, the size of a man's thumb.— Bractes. Exterior imbricated, one- 
lowered, obovate ; smooth, membranaceous-bordered, faintly min. 
i ed lengthways.. Interior solitary, euseloping the germ, perianthj anid 
the: greater part of the tube of the corol.— Flowers ewe 
double border; exterior of three, nearly equal, oblong segments. Lip | 
three-lobed, and of a dark purple colour. Nectarial filaments of 
Koenig large, subulate, fine-pointed.— Filament short. Anther ob- 
long, double, crowned with a long, curved , tapering, grooved hornlet. 
—Germ oval, three-celled, with many ovula in each. Style f filiform. 
Stigma fuonel-shaped, ciliate, lodged just under the apex of the horn- 
let of the anther. This famous plant is too well known to orga. 
«t further description, : 
* d z, zerumbet. A in Trans. of in. Soc. vi. 348. 
Stems declinate, Leaves bifarious, sessile, lanceolar. Spike dee 
"Toeduncled oval, compact, obtuse. Bractes. bros obovato obtuse, 
E b 
nt ;^ m 
Katou-[nschi-Kua. Rheed. Mal. 11. . p. 27. tab. 13. tM 
Lampujum. Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 148. tab. 64. fe he 3 * 4 
Zinziber spurium. Kon. in Retz. obs. 3. 60. b 
round wild i in pir woods about Calcutta. : 
