52 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Zingiber, 
somewhat declinate, from two to four feet high.— Leaves alternate, 
bifarious, sessile on their sheaths, smooth on both sides ; general 
length about twelve inches, and from four to five broad.— Sheaths with 
a large, membranaceous, slipulary process at the mouth.— Spikes sea — 
veral from the base of the stems, where they joi the root, half ime ; 
_mersed in the earth, sub-obovate; fastigiate, laxly imbricated with nu« a 
merous straight, erect, linear-lanceolate, acute, involute, red, slightly 3 . 
villous, exterior bractes. Inner bractes, or inferior perianth the lengh 1 
of the tube, but shorter than the exterior bractes, and irregularh 
tri-dentate.—Calyz superior, sub-cylindric, membranaceous, pellu- | 
cid, most slightly villous ; mouth, three-toothed.— Coro with a longs - 
slender, cylindric tube ; segments of the exterior border linear-lan«- 
ceolate, acute, red. Lip ovate-oblong, entire, speckled with red and E 
yellow.— Filament scarcely any. Anther of two long lobes, crowned. 
with the long, characteristic, curved horn, which i is incumbent on and 
reaches to the apex of the lip —Nectarial | filaments of Konig oblong, 
and obtuse.—Germ hairy, three-celled, with many ovula in each, — 
attached to the axis. Stigma funnel-shaped, and ciliate —Capsule 
1. Z. squarrosum. R. . ! E 
- Leaves lauceolar. Spikes squarrose, half immersed in the P 1 
Bratt linear, with long, taper, waved, recurved apices. - threes 
lobed, apex bifid. - ; 
Anative of boss where it ripens its seeds in December. From 2 
oon Mr. F. Carey sent the fresh roots, entire capsules, and ripe - 
deed to this garden, where the plants from both the seeds Sameet : 
grow freely, and the latter blossomed in August. d 
< Root tuberous, as in ginger, &c „Stems herbaceous, Sosideribiy. s 
recurvate, from two to three feet high, entirely hid in the sheaths of d 
the leaves.— Leaves bifarious, sessile. ,lauceolar, smooth above, slightly 5 
villous underneath, cuspidate, —Sheaths with two large conical pro- 
cesses rising from their mouths, one on each side.—Spikes from the 
base of the stems, three fourths hid in the earth, ovate, laxhy imbri- 
cated, size of a goosc-ezz.— Dractes green; the exterior solitary, one- 
