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a6 MON ANDRIA MONORYNIA. Zingiber, $ 
10. Z, marginatum. R. E 
Leaves sessile, lanceolate ; gula large and membranaceous. Spike | 
| terminal. Bracies obovate, with trausparent, wribrinaceQu! mam 
gin. Nectary three-lobed. : 
Leaves bifarious, linear, recurved. Spikes terminal, lanceolar, come 1 
pactly imbricated with lanceolate, oue-flowered bractes. a 
A native of the interiorof Bengal ; in the Botanic Garden it biok : 
soms in July and August, and'the seeds ripen in September and 
October. 
Root tuberous, as in common ginger, but inwardly yellows froma thet 
tubers proceed the proper roots, many of which end in oblong, peler 
coloured tubers, as in Curcuma.— Stems herbaceous, straight, from — $ 
four to five feet high, including the spike.—Leaves bifarious, lineaty 
ved, smooth above ; with many adpressed, short, soft, white hairs - 
underneath 3 from twelve to eighteen inches long, and only one inch 
broad. Sheaths a little hairy; mouth crowned with a very narrow) 
= membranaceous process .— Spikes terminal, solitary, of a narrow lane — 
-ceolar shape, six inches long, and three in circumference, every pat | 
EI compactly isnbricated with lanceolate, one-flowered bractes, which |. 
are an iuch anda half long, and a little hairy on the outside.— Bractes 
thterior, or inferior perianth shorter and broader than the exterior, 
but like them stiff, and alittle hairy — Ca/yr superior, white, smooth; | 
: mouth unequally toothed, little more than half the length of the brac- 
. tes-—Corol exactly as in the other-species, only considerably longer i 
the colour a tolerable bright, lively yellow. —Stamina with a short | 
filament, and very long curved beak crowning the linear two-lobed an- 
ther.— Nectarial bodies subulate.— Gera oval, hairy, three-celled, 
with numerous ovule in each, attached to the axis. Stigma ciliate.— 
Capsule. oval, size of a small olive, three-celled, three-valved. — Seeds 
numerous, lucid, black, enclosed in a large white ragged aril. — Em- 
éryo simple sub-lanceolate, base truncate, embraced by the ue 
perm; the upper half by the vitellus, ; 
