56 _  _MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Zingiber. 
A native of the forests of Rohilcund, from thence Colonel 
* Thomas Hardwicke sent plants to the Botanic garden, under 
the vernacular name Junglee Adruk. Here it flowers during 
the rains and the seeds ripen in September and October. 
Root composed of many, long-peduncled, oval, smooth, 
pale-coloured, insipid, watery tubers, issuing from the base 
and sides of the bulb, and palmate tubers, which are of a 
pale yellow colour, and somewhat spicy taste. Stems erect, 
round, enveloped in the sheaths of the leaves, which are of- 
ten a little hairy ; height of the whole plant whenin blossom, = 
from two to three feet.” Leaves sub-bifarious, alternate, ses- 
sile on their sheaths, narrow-lanceolate, acute, smooth above, 
a little hairy underneath, about twelve inches long, and about 
two broad, Spike terminal, sessile on the mouth of the 
- sheaths of the superior leaves, linear-oblong, somewhat stro- 
biliform, many-flowered. Flowers sessile, large, pure yellow 
in very part. Bractes in pairs, one-flowered, permanent ; 
exterior lanceolate, concave, erect, longer than the tube of 
the corol. Inner ovate, shorter, immediately enveloping the 
germ, calyx, and nearly the whole of the tube of the corol. 
Perianth superior, one-leaved, about half the length of the 
tube of the corol, membranaceous, white, two or three-tooth- 
ed, Corol ; tube cylindric, narrow. Lip with two, oblong, 
very distinct, expanding, lateral lobes; middle lobe very 
large, and nearly round. Anther with a very long curved 
beak. Stigma (as in most plants of the order), fumnel-shap- 
ed,’ ‘with, ciliate margins. Nectarial scales (of Konig), or 
hornlet conical. Capsule oval, three-sided, with the angles 
rounded, pretty smooth, size of a_ small olive, three-celled, 
three-valved ;- each cell containing several, black, shining 
seeds, eivelapel in a deeply jagged, white aril. Perisperm 
conform to the lower half of the seed which it occupies, pure 
white, cartilaginous. Vitellus above the perisperm, occupy- 
: Seely the upper half of the seed. Embryo vertical, fond 
