Zingiber. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, =+——(si(itséi 
every part of the embryo, which is clavate, and nearly antong 
as the seed, ot 
8. Z. panduratum. R. 
Leaves petioled above heir cent broad-lanceolar, 
smooth ; ligula large and scariose. Spikes radical, half im- 
mersed in the earth, lax, Bractes lanceolate, Lip ee 
form, with oval, emarginate lamina,” : 
This middling sized species is a native of the country 
about Rangoon. From thence Mr. F, Carey sent seeds to the 
Botanic garden in 1808, and in July,“1810, the plants raised 
from them blossomed abundantly. 
_ Root; numerous, long, fleshy, fibrous fibres, some of 
which swell into lanceolar tubers, as in Curcuma ; no palmate 
tubers, as in that genus. It possesses but little taste and no’ 
fragrance. Stalks erect, herbaceous, about three feet high. 
Leaves bifarious, petioled above their sheaths, broad-lanceo- _ 
lar, acute, smooth on both sides; from six to twelve inches 
long, from three to four broad. Sheaths smooth above their 
respective leaves; each ends in a very long, scariose, smooth: 
ligula. Spikes vais the. lower half immersed in the soil, 
oblong, and rather loosely imbricated with lanceolate, colour- 
ed,» concave, one-flowered, interior and exterior bractes, 
Flowers rather small ; exterior border of three, nearly equal, 
lanceolate, acuminate, pale red segments ; inner or lip very 
pale yellow, panduriform, that is with two, pretty large, 
rounded lobes at the base, and the /amina nearly oval, retuse, 
truncate, or emarginate, Filament broad, and short. An- 
ther double, and crowned with the usual beak. Germthree- _ 
celled, with many ovula in each, attached to the inner — | 
of the cell. oe — 2 
es SECT. il. Spike ermindh 
, aise, ert: sixcbiliform ; benctes Stein 
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