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a little rugose, arilled. 4ril white, nearly complete, and 
ragged at the upper end. Perisperm conform to the seed, 
cinereous. Embryo apni, central, nearly as long as the 
perisperm. 
6. Z. rubens. R. : ) 
Leaves \anceolar. Spikes lax, half immersed in the earth, 
Bractes linear-lanceolate, straight. Zip narrow-ovate, en- 
tire, 
A native of the interior of Bengal; from the district of 
Rungpore Dr. Buchanan sent the plants to the Botanic gar- 
den, where they blossom in August. 
~ Root tuberous, &c. as in the other species. Stems herbace- 
ous, somewhat declinate, from two to four feet high. Leaves 
alternate, bifarious, sessile on their sheaths, smooth on both _ 
sides; general length about twelve inches, and from four to 
five broad. Sheaths with a large, membranaceous, stipula- 
ry process at the mouth. Spikes several from the base of 
the stems, where they join the root, half immersed in the earth, 
sub-obovate, fastigiate, laxly imbricated with numerous’ 
straight, erect, linear-lanceolate, acute, involute, red, slightly 
ous, exterior bractes. Inner bractes, or inferior perianth, 
the length of the tube, but shorter than the exterior bractes, 
and irregularly tri-dentate. Calyx superior, sub-cylindric, 
membranaceous, pellucid, most slightly villous; mouth three- 
toothed. Corol with a long, slender, cylindric tube; seg- 
ments of the exterior border linear-lanceolate, acute, red. 
Lip ovate-oblong, entire, speckled with red and yellow. 
Filament scarcely any. Anther of two long lobes, crowned — 
with the long, characteristic, curved horn, which is incum- 
bent on and meaches to the apex os the lip. Nectarial, fila 
