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50 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. = = Zingiber. 
fresh of a deep yellow ; possessing a strong, not very agree- 
able, camphoraceous smell, and warm, spicy, bitterish taste. 
Stems annual, erect, round, from three to five feet high, en- 
tirely enveloped in the imbricated sheaths of the leaves. 
Leaves bifarious, approximate, sessile on their sheaths, linear- 
lanceolate, deep green above ; villous, and paler underneath, 
where the nerve also is hairy like the sheaths ; from one 
to two feet long, and about three inches broad, Sheaths 
clothed with exceedingly pungent hairs on the outside; 
their mouths ending in a stipulary process on each side of 
the insertion of the leaf. Scapes radical, from six to twelve 
inches long, invested in several oblong, downy sheaths. 
Spikes oblong, strobiliform, compact, sharp-pointed, closely 
imbricated with numerous obovate, acuminate, greenish 
ferruginous (where exposed), villous bractes. _ Flowers so- 
itary, (that is, one to each bracte of the spike, and blossom- 
ing in succession,) large, every part ofa pale, uniform, sul- 
phur colour, Calyx double; the exterior smooth, spathi- 
form, three-dentate one, may be considered a bracte; it is 
inserted round the base of the germ, which, as well as the 
inner, or proper perianth, it entirely envelopes; when forei- 
bly expanded, oval, Inner or proper perianth, superior, one- 
leaved, somewhat gibbous, membranaceous, three-toothed, 
on the outside divided nearly half way down. Corgh s tube 
slender, as long as the scale of the spike; upper division of 
‘the exterior border boat-shaped, projecting over the stamen; 
under, two narrower and reflexed under the lip. Lip three- 
lobed ; lateral lobes obliquely obovate, erect; middle lobe 
meaty: round, with the apex emarginate, and the. border — 
slightly curled, Stam, tdaithet ending ina a papesios'g 
recurved beak. 
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_4. Z. rosenm. Boece : in Tank of Kites Sics 8, 34s, eit 
Leaves short-petioled, lanceolate. Spikes lax, half ims 
in the earth. Bractes SP ae ealdureds asa 
