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Hedychium. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 13 
aiigle. Style length of the corol. Stigma large, and villous 
Capsule tarbinate, size of an olive, smooth, when ripe yellow, 
three-celled, three-valved. Seeds a few, smooth, bright deep 
red, with a partial ragged aril of the same colour, “Embryo 
simple, ‘sub-lancéolate, Mariiliied ° bbs Eee perisperm and 
vitellus. - 
“3. H, angustifolium. R . 
Leaves spe bei ‘Spikes open ; fascicles of flowers 
subtern, segments of the cleft lip oblong ; the other five seg- 
ments of the corol linear. 
Beng. Bhoo-ada. ° 
Native ‘of Chittagong, silhet, and the eastern parts of 
engal, where it flowers about the beginning: of the a in 
+3 ut pote 
June. 
Root tuberous, horizontal, oi, &e. as in the other 
scitamineous plants. Stems erect, from three to six feet high, 
entirely invested in the sheaths of the leaves. Leaves bifarious, 
sessile on their smooth ‘sheaths, narrow-lancéolate; very fine, 
I may say filiform, pointed, smooth on both sides ; from ten 
to fourteen tiches long, by: one to two broad. Spike terminal, 
rigid, ix to eighteen inches long, smooth. Fas- 
cles Uf flowers generally three-fold, and spreading out con?’ 
pea from the ‘rachis. Bractes ; exterior of the — G 
cylindrical, linear ; interior, one to each flower, and smaller, 
Flowers rather csivalh: dull red (lateritius,) generally about 
In January 1816 I received roots of this most charming species. 
from ‘Mr. Smith at Silhet, which produced blossoms in the Bo- Ae 
tanic garden in October the following } year. It differs from H 
coronarium, in regard to its flowers, which are about one third 
smaller, having the inner segments of the corol linear clavate, the ; 
et the t depre lei straight: sides, and its base contract | 
wa e latter Maya apcrar i ond therefore more! 
: grateful degree. In stature and leaves both species are alike. silts 
