670 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA,. Heliconia. 
four or five inches long, smooth, striated lengthways with 
small veins, colour when ripe a mixture of green, yellow and 
pink, three-celled. Seeds, rather nuts, a few in each cell, 
oval, size of a field bean. Integument a perfect, hard, black, 
substantial nut, divided into three transverse cells, the upper- 
most and lowermost filled withspongy matter, the middle one 
is occupied by the friable.white perisperm, in the middle of 
the base thereof is lodged the small, simple, short, sub-obco- 
nic embryo, the whole nearly as in Gertner’s Sapientum, 
Carp, i, 28. t. 11. f. 1. 
HELICONIA. Schreb. gen. N. 403. 
Spathes alternate. Calyx none. Corol six-petalled. .Nee- 
tary one-leaved. Germ inferior, three-celled ; ced/s with one 
or more seeds; attachment iaferior, Pericarp three-celled, 
three-valved, al sitesi or several. 
J. H. buccinata, R. ia 
. Stemless. Leaves lanceolar, glossy. Spadix central, 
flexuose, pubescent ; spathes from six to eight, bifarious, di- 
verging, each embracing from six to ten pedicelled flowers. 
Nectary oblong ; cells of the germ one-seedéd, | 
Folium buccinatum. Rumph. Amb. vy. 141. t. 62.f. 2. 
From Amboyna plants were brought to the Botanic gar- 
an at Calcutta, in 1798, where in seven years they began to 
blossom during the hot season, viz. April and May ; but have 
not yet ripened. their seed in Bengal. 
_. Root consisting of numerous, sirong, fleshy Sine. like: ya 
common batman. and still more permanent than in any spe- 
cies of Musa known to me, Stem no other than the united 
sheathing part of the petioles, except when in flower the seape 
then rises through their centre. Leaves in numerous ae 
_ from the same root, forming an immense, beautiful bush ; b 
farious, petioled, lanceolate, entire, polished, acute, with di 
verging veins, from, two alge feet. Jong, and one foot 
