Hedychium. | MONANDRIA MONOGYNIAY 11 
bractes. Flowers large, pure: white,* very fragrant, from 
two to four to each common bracte, but seldom more»than 
one or two expand at the same time. Bractes; besides 
the common exterior ones, already mentioned, there are as 
many interior as there are flowers in the fascicle; the largest 
of which is about half the length of the common bracte, and 
envelopes not only the most forward (exterior) flower, but 
all those of the same fascicle, gradually diminishing in size ; 
all have a sheathing base, are membranous, and striated, 
_ Calyx superior, one-leafed, a little inflated, contracted at the 
mouth, a little hairy, striated, half the length of the tube of 
the corol. Corol one-petalled. Tube long and_ slender, 
from the apex of the exterior -bractes recurved. Border 
flat, double. Exterior three-parted ; divisions equal, lan- 
ceolate, acute, membranaceous, striated. Interior resupinate, 
three-parted ; lower two divisions obliquely oval, short- 
clawed ; upper division broad, obcordate, banner-like, with 
the amid deep, and the lobes roundish ; margins waved ;, 
towards the base tinged yellow. Dingle (of Kénig. and 
Retzius) two short, fleshy, subulate bodies embracing the 
base of the style. Filament from the lower margin of the 
mouth of the tube, between the insertions of the inner 
border of the corol, ascending ; upper side channelled for 
the’ tyle,“and inserted into the anther a little above its base. 
Anther linear, sub-erect, two-lobed. Germ obsoletely three- _ 
sided, three-celled, with many ovula in each, attached to the — 
axis, Sty/e slender, in length sufficient to elevate the large, 
hairy, perforated; glandular, green stigma just about the — 
apex of the anther. Capsule oblong, three-celled, three- , 
valved, opening from the apex; inside orange coloured. 
Seeds many in each cell, invested in their proper, multifid, 
crimson: seine ate two.- ibis’ and vee. 
