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flowered, linear, concave, long, taper, waved, recurved. Inner, one 
or two, (generally one), as long as the tube of the corol, with a three- 
toothed apex.— Flowers pretty large, inodorous.—Calyz superior, &c. 
asin the other species:—=Corol with a slender tube. Exterior border of 
three, pink-coloured, lanceolate, acute segments. Inner, or lip twa- 
lobed at the base ; apex bifid, colour a speckled mixture of purple, 
red, and yellow. Filament short, anther and beak together nearly as 
long as the lip.— Germ villous, three-celled, with many ovula in each. 
Style and stigma asin the genus.— Capsule short-pedicelied, ovate, co- 
nic, three-celled, three-valved, opening from the apex, inside of the 
valves bright scarlet while fresh, Ver T ee 
F. Carey, CS 
: , when they reached me, perfectly dry, and then mea- 
sured three inches in length, and one in diameter.) —Seeds many in 
each cell, arilled, arranged in two rows, and attached to the inner . 
edge of the partitions. Aril complete, fleshy, white.—Perisperm 
conform to the seed. Vitellus covers every part of the embryo, which 
is clavate, and nearly as long as the seed. 
8. Z. panduratum. R. 
Leaves petioled above their sheaths, broad-lanceolar, smooth; 
ligula largeand scariose. Spikes radical, half immersed in the earth, 
lax.  Bractes lanceolate, Lip panduriform, with oval, emarginate 
lamina. 
_ This middling sized species is a native of the country about ad 
goon. From thence Mr. F. Carey sent seeds to;the Botanic Gardea 
in 1808, and in July, 1810, the plants raised fuae blossomed 
abundantly. — . 
+- Root ; numerous, long, PER A snes some of which ee E 
into lanceolar tubers, as. in Curcuma; no palmate tubers, as id — 
that genus. It possesses but little taste and no fragrance.— Sta/ks 
erect, herbaceous, about three feet high.— Leaves bifarious, petioled 
above their sheaths, broad-lanceolar, acute, smooth on both sides;! ro 
six to twelve inches long, by three to four broad.— Sheaths smooth 
above their respective leaves ; each ends in a ver ' lon, 
