14 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA,. Hedychium. 
four in the fascicle, and expanding in succession, Calyx 
superior, cylindric, length of the tube of the corol; mouth 
equally three-toothed. Corol ; tube slender, cylindric, about 
an inch long; five segments of the border linear (sub-fili- 
form,) variously revolute. Lip. lateral, with linear, chan- q 
nelled and two-parted lamina; the segments thereof semi- 
oval. Filament opposite to the lip, and twice its length, — 
nearly straight, filiform, grooved for the style. Anther two- 
lobed, naked. Germ oval, a little hairy, three-celled, with 
many ovula in each, attached to the axis. Style filiform, its . 
base embraced by the usual two subulate bodies, Stigma 
fumnel-form, projecting from the apex of the anther, |” 
Notwithstanding the opinion which the distinguished Bo- _ 
tanist Edwards (in bis Bot. Regist.) has expressed, Lam led — 
to suspect that H. coccinewm: of Sir J. Smith (Rees’s new 
Cyclopedia, in loco) is a distinct species, of which I have — 
examined the original drawing, left by my inestimable friend _ 
and predecessor, Dr, F. Buchanan at the Botanic ac deasaa at j 
ee 
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it H. gracile. R : : 
~ Leaves Julieta: Spikes terminal, open ; fetes eis / 
sonttendil ‘segments of. the bifid, sessile hp, ean eases : 
the other five Rosai of the corol linear. 
- Obs. This is a edibenpiana about three fort in height, 
a ‘native of the mountains on the North-East border of — 
Bengal. Like the preceding two species it flowers in the 
rainy season, Its solitary-flowered spike of white corols — 
with their scarlet filament, and its lanceolar leaves, distinguish ; 
it from-H. icici hoes | 
