58 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Costus.. 
in each, attached to the axis, Stigma ciliate. Capsule oval, 
size of a small olive, three-celled, three-valved. Seeds nu- 
merous, lucid, black, enclosed in a large white ragged aril. 
‘Embryo simple, sub-lanceolate, base truncate, embraced by 
the perisperm: the upper half by the vitellus. 
_ COSTUS. Schreb. gen. No. 4. . 
Corolla with the interior border of one, campanulate, back- 
cleft lobe. Filament lanceolate, with the double anther at- 
tached far below its apex. Capsule three-valved, three-cell- 
ed. Seeds numerous, arilled. Embryo simple, and furnish- 
ed with both perisperm and vitellus, ) 
1... speciosus, Smith in Trans, of Linn. Soe. 1. 240. Linn, 
sp. pl. ed, Willd. 1. 11. 
Leaves sub-sessile, spirally exsangiul oblong, combisates 
villous underneath, 
Tjana-Kua. Rheed, Mal. 11. p. 15.f.8. 
Tsiana speciosa. Gmel. 9. 
Herba spiralis hirsuta. Rumph. Amb. 6. p- 143. t. 64, fh. bs 
Sans. Kemooka. 
Hind, and Beng. Keoo, ; 
Banksia speciosa of Dr. Kinig, See Retz. Obs. 4. 75. 
This is one of the most elegant looking plants of the na 
ral order Scitaminea, It is a native of moist shady places, . 
such as the low banks of water moieties, Sone Flowers name: 
the wet season, 
Obs. Kinig’s learns, agrees so nll writh my ae 
that I have scarcely any thing to add: the chief diteomimee 
are, 
Ist. Mine is generally from three to oa foot high, a caaia 
_ ing spirally, with the leaves spirally disposed up and tom. 
the stem, 
2d, In athe the ake} is at all times iene and ri id; fom Se 
