48 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Zhltjllxi . 



long-, raginated sheaths, bifarious, linear-lanceolate, very 

 smooth above, and nearly so underneath. Sheaths smooth, 

 crowned with a bifid stipnlary ligula. Peduncles radical, so- 

 litary, a little removed from the stems, from six to twelve 

 inches long, enveloped in ;i few obtuse sheaths, the upper- 

 most of which sometimes end in tolerably long" leaves. 

 Spi kes, oblong 1 , the size of a man's thumb. Bractes ; exterior 

 imbricated, one-flowered, obovate; smooth, membranace* 

 ous-bordered, faint!} striated lengthway; interior solitary, 

 enveloping the germ, perianth, and the greater part of the 

 tube of the corol. Flowers rather small, when compared 

 with the real of this natural order. Calyx superior, one- 

 leaved, opening on our side apex three-toothed. Corol with 

 a double bonb-r: < tterii / of three, Dear!) equal, oblong seg- 

 ments. Up three-lobed, and of a dark purple colour. Nec- 

 tarial filaments of kniiiL: large, subulate, tine-pointed. 

 Filament short. Anther oblong, double, crowned with a 

 long, curved, tapering, grooved hornlet* Germ oval, three- 

 celled, \\\\\\ many ovula in each. Style filiform. Stigma 

 funnel-shaped, ciliate, lodged just under the apex of the 

 hornlel of the anther. This famous plant is too well known 

 to require any further description. 



2. X. zerumbet. Roseoe in Trans, of Linn. Soc. viii. 3 I s . 



Stems declinate. Leavis bifarious, sessile, lanceolar. Spike 

 long-pedum led. oval, compact, obtuse. Bractes broad- 

 obovate, obtuse, margins coloured. Lip three-lobed. 



Amomum Zerumbet. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. I. (>. 



Katou-Ins( In Kua. Rheed. Mai. II. p. 27. tab. 13. 



Lampujum. Rumph. Amb. 5. />. 14*. tab. 64.,/fy. 1. 



Zinziber spurium. Kon. in lidz. Obs. 3. 60. 



Bentj. Butch, or mahaburee-butch. 



Found wild in the woods about Calcutta. Flowering time 

 the rainy season, the seeds ripen in November and December. 



Root biennial, tuberous, as in ginger, externally whitish ; 

 internally pale yellow, and of a bitter aromatic taste. 



