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12 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Hedychium, 
together conform to the seed; the former occupies the lower 
and exterior portion; and the latter the upper and interior - — 
portion, and is in immediate contact with the embryo. Em-) 
bryo simple, subcylindric, nearly as long as the seed. ito 
Obs. This, to me, is the most charming of all.the plants 
of this natural order that I have yet met with; the great 
length of time it continues to throw out a profusion of large, 
beautiful, pase: blossoms, makes it particularly desirable. 
= Sates heodiL-knicabtaks Seiko terminal, imbricated. 
pices about four-flowered: interior two segments of the 
corol linear ; lip obcordate, with apex deeply retuse. 
- A native of the vallies amongst the hills near Silhet, where 
it is called Kattia-rityam by the natives, Flowering ti 
the rainy season. Tt i 
- Root tuberous, like that of most sibes Ritomniaa,: calame 
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. Spike terminal, solitary, erect, 
oblong, imbricated ; from six to eight inches long. Flowers 
numerous, large, yellow, resembling those of H. coronarium, 
fragrant. Bractes ; exterior between oval, and oblong, : og 
obtuse, smooth, finely nerved, three: : pout 
two or two and half inches: long and nearly one and a half : 
broad. Interior, one to each flower, and much smaller. 
Calyx superior, nearly as long as the tube of the corol, mem-, 
* branaccous, inflated, obliquely two or three-toothed, Corol ; £ 
tube slender, length of the exterior bractes, all the five pro- 
per segments of the border linear, the inner two more deeply. 
éolcaked and obtuse. Lip or sixth segment, obcordate, deep: 
ayercivee, placed on the interior or upper side opposite t to a 
the ment, Filament linear, and together with the two- 3 
anther about as long as the lip. Germ hairy, tl 
3 celled, with ‘numerous ovals, seamen oa : 
