10 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA., #$Hedychium, 
base to a considerable distance upwards... Embryo. pure 
white, hooked, with the convexity upwards, which corres- 
ee of the seed. : , 
HEDYCHIUM. Kon. | 
Corolla with a long, slender tube; both borders dense 
acted inner resupinate. -4nther double, naked, . Cap- 
_ sule three-celled, three-valved. Seeds numerous, arilled. 
Embryo simple, and furnished with both perisperm and 
vitellus, view 
ae i. coronarium, dine sp. ee ok Willd. i. p. 10, Kinig 
in Retz. Obs. 3.73. . : 
Leaves lanceolate. Spikes oneal coleman cdl 
ments of the cleft lip of the corol semi-lunar, . 
-Gandsulium. Rumph. Amb. 5. t. 69.3. 
_ Goruk-natha. of the Bengalees, also by them called. Doo- 
lala-champa. 
_ A native of various parts of Bengal and the nate 
provinces, Flowers during the rains; and the seada.xipem, 
- im the early part.of the cool season. i 
Root horizontal, perennial, round, fleshy, RSLS with, 
annular. cicatrices, about as thick as a man’s thumb, aa 
with fibrous ramifications issuing from the cic | 
simply herbaceous. Stems erect, from three je hot bet bch, 
round, every where covered. with the sheaths of the leaves,. 
Leaves sessile, alternate, bifarious, lanceolate, tapering _ to. 
» an-evanescent point; abeve, a deep smooth green; below, 
striated, pale, and. slightly covered. with depressed, soft, 
white hairs; from nine to twelve inches long, and. about two 
broad. Sheaths smooth on both sides, striated, ter 
ing in a ligulated process, (as in many ciecmnny sais | 
is often two-parted. Spike terminal, solitary, erect;linear- 
pe » about the size of the thumb, compactly imbricated - 
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