Zingiber. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 51 
‘Teling. Bumacatchicay. 
Is a native of the northern Circars, where it flowers i in 
the rainy season. 
~ Root biennial, horizontal, jointed, and white; with many — 
large fibres, Stems several, invested in the sheaths of the 
leaves, &c, as in the other scitamineous plants, about two or 
three feet high, leaves included, Leaves somewhat petioled, 
bifarious, lanceolate, acute, tending to one side, smooth, fine- 
ly veined, about twelve inches long, and from three to four 
broad. Spikes remote from the stems, just appearing above 
the ground when in flower, imbricated with lax, lanceolate, 
_ reddish, one-flowered bractes, _ Flowers solitary, colour a 
mixture of red and yellow. Bractes, besides the exterior one 
already mentioned, there is an interior one for each flower 
between it and the rachis, which is linear, with an obtuse, 
notched apex. Calyx one-leaved, tubular, above, mem- 
brahaceous; mouth toothed. Corol ; tube cylindric, erect, 
Sidersbiy longer than the bractes, Border.double; ex- 
terior three-parted ; ; in this plant the two approximiated di- 
visions are above, linear, pointed, and recurved, sometimes 
revolute ; the lower division stands single, and is like the su- 
perior two, linear and revolute; all are of a bright red colour. 
Interior, or lip: single, broad, obtuse, reflexed over the su- 
perior ‘two divisions of the exterior border. Filament, and 
anthers as in the other species. Style rather longer than 
the horn of the anther. Stigma perforated, and ciliate. 
Two similar awl-shaped nectarial bodies at the base of the 
style, are also present here. : 
Obs, I have not found that the natives” make oy use ce of 
this plant, ae 
5. ZL. ligulatum, R. 
Leaves approximate, ; sessile lanceolate. Spikes lax, m more. 
“A native of finilooaban eeeick time in the Botanic ae 
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