54 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Zingiber.. 
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7. Z. squarrosum. R. | ) =e 
Leaves lanceolar. , Spikes squarrose, half immersed in ‘the 
earth. Bractes linear, with long, taper, waved, recurved * ~ 
apices. Jip three-lobed, apex bifid. 
A native of Burma, where it ripens its seeds in December. 
From Rangoon Mr. F. Carey sent the fresh roots, entire 
capsules, and ripe seeds to this garden, where the plants from 
both the seeds and roots grew freely, and the latter oom’ 
edin August. ee 
Root tuberous, as in ginger, &c. Stems hocbatsouanis con-— 
siderably recurvate, from two to three feet high, entirely hid 
in the sheaths of the leaves. Leaves bifarious, sessile, lan- 
ceolar, smooth above, slightly villous underneath, cuspidate. . 
Sheaths with two large conical ‘processes’ rising from their 
mouths, one on each side. Spikes from the base of the stems, . 
three-fourths hid in the earth, ovate, laxly imbricated, size. 
of a goose-egg.  Bractes green; the exterior solitary, one-. 
flowered, linear, concave, long, taper, waved, recurved.: In-. 
ner, one or two, (generally one), as long as the tube of the 
corol, with a three-toothed apex. Flowers pretty large, 
imodorous. Ca/yx superior, &c. as in the other species, Corol. 
with a slender tube. Exterior border of three, pink-colour-. 
ed, lanceolate, acute segments... Inner, or lip two-lobed at. 
the base ; apex bifid, colour a speckled mixture of purple, 
red, and celia: Filament short, anther and beak: dogetinn. 
nearly as long asthe lip. Germ villous, three- with, 
many oyula in each. Style and stigma as in 5 the genus. 
Capsule short-pedicelled, ovate, conic, three-celled, three- 
valved, opening from the apex, inside of the valves bright 
scarlet while fresh, (Those sent from Rangoon by Mr. F._ 
Carey, were, when they reached me, perfectly dry, and then: 
measured three inches in length, and one in diameter.) Seeds 
many in each cell, arilled, arranged in two rows, and attach- 
edie, the inner edge of the partitions. Aril complete, fleshy, 
White Parispern conten: § to 2 the: gad snd Helles 
