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Ovula in each, attached to the inner edge of the partitions. 

 Stigma on the first expansion of the flower erect through 

 the fissure of the apex of the anther; afterwards, as the style 

 lengthens, its apex becomes involute, and throws the stig- 

 ma under the anther. Nectaries (of Konig) two, square, 

 fluted, fleshy bodies within the tube, on the apex of the germ, 

 embracing the base of the style. 



Obs. This is no doubt one of the most gaudy of our East 

 Indian Scitaminecp. It multiplies itself by the root very fast, 

 grows quickly, and continues to produce its numerous, large, 

 elegant, drooping panicles, of beautiful flowers for two 

 months, and more or less the whole year round. 



(>*. A. mutica. R. 



Zeares short-pet iol<d, narrow-lanceolar, polished. Racemes 

 erect, compound. Lip three-lobed, base spurless. Cap- 

 sule buri< r, d. Seed* numerous, angular. Aril evanescent. 



Found indigenous in the forests of Prince of Wales' Island 

 by Mr. W. Roxburgh, and from thence introduced into the 

 Botanic garden near Calcutta, where it flowers about the 

 beginning of the rains, and ripens its seed from October till 

 January. 



Stems numerous, erect, involved in the sheaths of the 

 leaves, from four to six feet high, generally biennial, as they 

 do not perish till after the seed is ripe. Leaves alternate, bifari- 

 ous, short-petioled, narrow-lanceolar, acute polished, and en- 

 tire, from ten to twenty-four inches long. Sheaths smooth, 

 ending in a rounded ligula, above the insertion of the leaf. 

 Racemes terminal, erect, compound, conical, many-flowered; 

 peduncles a little downy. Pedicels alternate, short, villous, 

 two, three, or even four-flowered. Bractes of the pedicels, 

 and pedicelli solitary, oblong, caducous. Flowers numer- 

 ous, large, drooping. Calyx longer than the tube of the 

 corol, widening from the base ; mouth irregularly three-tooth- 

 ed, with the lower fissure deepest, pure white. Corol ; tube 



