ZLingiber. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 49 
Stems annual, oblique, about three or four feet high, com- 
pletely invested in the sheaths of the leaves. Leaves bifa- 
rious, sessile, broad-lanceolate, entire, smooth, waved ; veins 
numerous, slender, parallel ; deep-green above, pale under- 
neath. Sheaths crowned with a large, broad, membranaceous, 
emarginate ligula. Peduncle solitary, a little removed from 
the stems, erect, from twelve to twenty-four inches long, en- 
veloped in imbricated sheaths. Spikes oval, obtuse, or with 
a round excavation on their apex, about the size of a goose- 
egg. Bractes (or scales of the spike) the exterior one-flower- 
ed, imbricated, broad-obovate, obtuse, with a broad mem- 
branaceous border ; interior (or proper) solitary, one-flower- 
ed, enveloping the germ, perianth, and most of the tube of 
the corol. Flowers large, pale, of a sulphur colour, Calyx 
superior, one-leaved, sheathing the lower half of the tube of 
the corol. Corol; exterior border three-parted, &c. as in 
the genus; interior, or lip broad, with the lateral lobes _ 
thereof particularly large ; middle division two-parted; they 
are all beautifully curled, and of a pale yellow colour. 
Nectarial filaments of Kénig as in the order. Filament 
scarcely any. Anther large, double, with its long, curved 
chorn projecting over the lip. Stigma funnel-shaped, fringed 
=p done distinct hairs. 
3. 7. ait R. ok « ie: teamed 
Straight. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate. Spikes radi- 
Br strobiliform, oblong, acute, Bractes obovate, acumi- 
. Lip three-lobed. : 
aa Vuna Ardrukum. sigs 
Hind, and Beng. Bun Ada, (wild ial 
Teling. Karpushpoo, (small turmeric.) = 
A native of Coromandel, Bevan and Bahar. "Flowering 
fleshy Feat and rant like g ginger, but wai larger 
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