Hedychium.. MONANDRIA MONOGYNTAs — — 
resembles when in flower. Arither with a similunar wing on each: 
side — Germ one-celled, containing As d ócula," Steed to three. 
pus rietal vecepaicles.® ; | 
The poe plaut, which was omitted through an oversight in itë 
proper place, viz, neat after Hedychium éoronarium, is here inserted > 
at the end of the natur al order ef Scifamineg. 
` Hedychium flavum. R. iu E 
Leaves broad-lanceolar. Spikes terminal, imbricated. — Bractes . 
about four-flowered ; interior. 7 cct of the orol linear; ip : 
obcordate, with ; apex deeply PHONE ^ t 
A native of thé vallies amongst the hills: near Silhet, whe 'e it is call- 
ed Kattia-rityam by the natives. Flowering time the rainy season. < 
+ Root tubcroüs, like that of most other Scitamtnee.— Stems erect 
two or three feet high, and rather stout.— Leaves lanceolar, very fine 
pointed, smooth on both sides. Sheaths smooth, with a very large, .- 
smooth membranaceous stipula rising far above the mouth.—Spiketer~ | 
minal, solitary, erect, oblong, imbricated ; length six or-eight inches. 
— Flowers numerous, large, yellow, resembling those of H. coronari- 
um, fragrant.— Bractes; exterior between oval and oblong, rather 
obtuse, smooth, finely nerved, three-or four-flowered, about. two or. 
two and half inches long and nearly one and a half broad. Interior, Te 
one se. each flower and much smaller.—Calyr superior, nearly s as 
- ig as the tube of the corol, membranaceous, inflated, obliquely two. 
 Orfhree-toothed, —Corol; Tube slender, length ofthe exterior bractes, ` s 
all the five proper segments of the border linear, the i inner. two more . 
. deeply coloured and obtuse. Lip or sixth segment, obcordate, € | 
ly retuse, placed on the enterior or upper side opposite: to the 
ment.— Filament linear, and together with the two-lobed anthe 
about as long as the lip.—Germ hairy, thiee-celled, with - RE. 
9oula i in each, attached to the i inner angle. Style length. of ‘ie có 
"This beantiful plant is a second species of the genus Mantisia, which ha ia 
by Dr. Sims, and confirmed by the #lastrious — 
in Rev’ Nen Cyclopædia.—N. Ww. E 
K. 
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