48 . MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Ainyilite 
long, vaginated sheaths, bifarious, linear-lanceolate, very 
smooth above, and nearly so underneath, | Sheaths smooth, 
crowned with a bifid stipulary ligula. Pedaneles radical, so- 
litary, a little removed from the. stems, from six to twelve ~ 
inches long, enveloped in a few obtuse sheaths, the upper- 
most of which sometimes end in tolerably long leaves, 
Spikes, oblong, the size of a man’s thumb. Bractes ; exterior 
imbricated, one-flowered, obovate; smooth, membranace- 
ous-bordered, faintly striated lengthway ; interior solitary, 
enveloping the germ, perianth, and the greater part of the 
tube of the corol. Flowers rather small, when compared 
with the rest of this natural order. Calyx superior, one- 
leaved, opening on one side, apex three-toothed. Corol with 
a double border ; exterior of three, nearly equal, oblong seg- 
_ ments, Lip three-lobed, and of a dark purple colour...Nee- 
tarial filaments of Kénig large, subulate, fine-pointed, 
Filament short. Anther oblong, double, crowned with a 
long, curved, tapering, grooved hornlet. Germ oval, three- 
celled, with many ovula in each. Style filiform. Stigma 
funnel-shaped, . ciliate, lodged just under the apex of the 
hornlet of the anther. This famous plant is too aa known 
to require any further description. | 
2. Z. zerumbet. Roscoe in Trans. of Linn, i Vili. © 
Stems declinate. Leaves bifavious, sessile; lanceolar, S 
Jong-peduncled, oval;: sy 3 obtuse, - - Bractes broa 
obovate, obtuse, margins } Lip three-lobed. 
Amomum Zerumbet, Linn. sp jel Wilid.1. 6. 
~ Katou-Inschi-Kua, Rheed. Mal. 11. p. 27, tab, 13. 
~~ Lampujam. Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 148. tab: 64, Fig he 
~ Zimziber spurtum. Kon. in Retz: Obs. 3260, o> 
Beng. Butch, or mahaburee-butch, 6) 
Found wild in the woods about Calcutta. Flowering ti time 
Sony season, the seeds ripen in November and December, 
, nial, tuberous, as in ginger, externally which 
“pale yellow, and of a. Ditter, aromatic: taste. 
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