£9 | MONANDRIA MONOQYNIA. Zingiber C 
other scitamineous plants, abouttwo or three feet high, leaves includ- 
ed.— Leaves somewhat petioled, bifarious, lanceolate, acute, tending 
toone side, smoath, finely veined ; about twelve inches long, and from 
three to four broad. — Spikes remote from the stems just appearing 
above the ground when in flower, imbricated with lax, lanceolate, red- 
dish, one-flowered bractes.— Flowers solitary, colour a mixture of red 
and yellow.— Bractes, besides the exterior one already mentioned, 
there isan interior one for each flower between itandthe rachis, which 
is linear, with an obtuse, notched apex.—Calyz one-leaved, tubular, 
above, membranaceous ; mouth toothed.—Corol; Tube cylindric, 
erect, considerably nget than the bractes. Border double. J jeterior 
three-parted ; in this plant the two approximated divisions are above, 
linear, pointed, and recurved, sometimes revolute ; the lower division j 
stands single, andi is like the superior two, linear and revolute ; all are / 
ofa bright red colour. Interior, or lip single, broad, obtuse, reflexe 
ed over the superior two divisions of the exterior border.— Filament, 
aud anthers as in the other species. —Sty le rather longer than the 
horn of the ‘anther. ‘Stigma perforated, and ciliate. — ''wo similar 
awl-shaped nectarial bodies at the base of the style, are also present 
here. 
Obs. I = not found =~ be natives make any use of this s plant, 
A 
3.5 ligulatum. a de e 
Leaves approximate, sessile, lanceolate. Spikes lax, more that 
half hid in the earth, obovate, Bractes cuneiform, Lip bijih 
À native of Hindoosthan, Flowering time in the Botanic Garden 
the rainy season; the seeds 1 ripen in November and December. 
Root jointed, running horizontally at some depth under the surface 
of the earth, and furnished with long Heshy fibres from the joints; from 
these joints shoots rise, and by them the plant i is readily propagat- 2 
ed.—Stems about two feethigh, bending considerably to one side.— - 
Leaves alternate, approximate, bifarious, sessile on their sheaths, from 
cordate below to lanceolate toward the top of the plant, both sides 
envath, and marked with parallel yesu under side paler green, 
