Zingiber. MONANDEIA MONOGYNIA, 55 
A native of the forests of Roti lcund, from thence Colonel Thomas 
Hardwicke sent plants to the Botanic Garden, under the vernacular 
name Junglee Adruk. Here it flowers during the t "e aud the 
seeds ripen in September aud October. 
Root composed of many, long peduncled, oval, smooth, pale-co- f 
loured, insipid, watery tubers, issuing from the base and sides of 
the bulb, and palmate tubers, which are of a pale yellow colour, 
apd somewhai spicy taste—Stems_ erect, round, enveloped i in the 
sheaths of the leaves, which are often a little hairy; height of the 
whole plant when’ in blossom, from two to three feet.— Leaves subs 
bifarious, altesnate, sessile on deir ee, narrow-lanceolate, 2 A 
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sheaths ‘of the supesióe "curet lin ear-oblong, 'omewt 
form, manv-flowered. — Flowers sessile, large, pure yellow in every’ - 
part.— Bractes in pairs, one-flowered, permanent ; exterior lanceolate, 
concave, erect, longer than the tube ofthe corol. fgner ovate, skor- 
ter, immediately enveloping the germ, calyx, and nearly the whole of 
the tube of the corol.—-Perianth superior, one-leaved, about half 
the length of the tube of the corol, membranaceous, white, two or 
«o three-toothed.— Corol. Tube cylindric, narrow. Lip with two, oblong, 
very distinct, expanding, lateral lobes; middle lobe very large, and 
nearly round. Aniher with a very long curved beak.—Stignia 
most plants of the order), funnel-shaped, with ciliate margins.— Nec- 
tar ial scales (of Kt mig) , or homlet conical. — Capsule oval, three-sid- — 
ed, with the angles rounded, pretty smooth, size of a small olive, 
three celled, three-valved ; each cell containing : severa » black, shin- 
ing seeds, enveloped ire deeply jagged, white ance pisperm cou» - 
form to the lower half of the seed which it occupies, pure white, cartis 
laginous. Vitellus above the perisperm, occupying nearly the upp 
half of the seed — Embryo vertical, passing through the centre of bo : é 
perisperm and vitellus, sub-cylindric, both ends obtuse, &c. in ever 
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