Bingibera MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA» 49 
from three to five feet high, entirely enveloped in the imbricated - 
sheaths of the leaves.— eaves bifarious, approximate, sessile on 
their sheaths, linear-lanceolate, deep green above ; villous, and paler 
underneath, where the nerve alsoishairy like the sheaths; length from 
one to two feet, and about three inches broad —-Sheaths clothed with 
exceedingly pungent hairs on the outside; their mouths ending in a 
stipulary process on each side of the insertion of the leaf.—Scapes 
radical, from six to twelve inches long, invested in several, oblong, 
downy sheaths.—Spikes oblong, suobiliform, compact, shai p-point- 
ed, closely imbricated with numerous obovate, acuminate, greenish 
ferruginous (where exposed), villous bractes.— Flowers solitary, (that - 
is, one to each bracte of thespike, and blossoming in: ccession,) large, | 
every part of a pale, uniform, sulphur colour. — Calyx double ; ; the 
exterior, smooth, spathiform, three-dentate one, may be considered a 
bracte ; it is inserted round the base of the germ, w hich, as well as 
the inner, or proper perianth, it entirely envelopes ; when forcibly 
expanded, oval. Inner or proper perianth, superior, one-leaved, some- 
what gibbous, membranaceous, three-toothed, on the outside divided 
nearly half way down,—Corol. Tube slender, as long as the scale of 
the spike, upper division of the exterior border boat-shaped, projecte 
ing over the stamen; under two narrower and reflexed under the 
lip. Lip three-lobed ; lateral lobes obliquely obovate, erect; middle 
lobe nearly round, with the apex emarginate, and the border slightly 
qaridi toS Auther ending in a long, subulate, recurved beak. 
$ 2 rete: Rio ix Toe of Linn. Soc. 8. 348. 
Leaves short-petioled, lanceolate. Spikes lax, halfi immer: sed in the 
earth. Bractes lanceolate, coloured. Lip entire —— 
Amomum roseum. Corom. pl, 2. N, 196. 
` Teling. Bumacatchicay. , 
- 1s a native of the northern Circars, where it flowers in the rainy 
season. E 
| -Root biennial , horizontal, jointed, and white; with manyla ge fibres 
Sens several, invested in the sheaths of the leaves, ks as in the 
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