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Zingiber, MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA.  - 57 
like Z. Cassumunar, that the same —s and. ae 
— well serve for both. . ‘ 
10. Z. marginatum. R. 
Leaves sessile, lanceolate; ligula large and membrana- 
ceous. Spikes terminal, Bractes obovate, with transparent, 
membranaceous margin. Vectary three-lobed. 
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11. Z, elatum. R. 
. Leaves bifarious, linear, recurved. Spikes terminal, lan- 
ceolar, compactly imbricated with lanceolate, one-flowered 
bractes, > . 
A native of the interior of Bengal; in the Botanic garden 
it blossoms in July and August, and the seeds ripen in Sep- - 
tember and October. 
Root tuberous, as in common ginger, but inwardly yellow ; 
from the tubers proceed the proper roots, many of which end 
in oblong, paler coloured tubers as in Curcuma. Stems her- 
baceous, straight, from four to five feet high, including the 
spike. Leaves bifarious, linear, recurved, smooth above ; 
with many adpressed, short, soft, white hairs underneath ; 
from twelve to eighteen inches long, and only one stele 
broad, Sheaths a little hairy ; mouth crowned with a very 
narrow, membranaceous process. Spikes terminal, solitary, 
of a narrow lanceolar shape, six. inches long, and three in cir- 
» cumference, every part compactly imbricated with lanceolate, 
one-flowered bractes, which are an inch and a half Jong, and 
a little hairy on the outside. Bractes ; interior, or inferior — 
perianth shorter and broader than the exterior, but like them _ 
stiff, and a little hairy. Calyx superior, white, smooth; 
mouth unequally toothed, little more than half the length of 
the bractes. Corod exactly as in the other species, only con- 
poe ol ; the plots mech Dis ct he cal so 
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