Zingiber. monandria monogynia. 47 



ed'with a very large, curled, semi-lunar crest. Germ vil- 

 lous, nine ribbed, three-celled, &c. as in the genus. Cap- 

 sule long, narrow, ovate-oblong - , three-celled, three-valved, 

 surface even and smooth, colour a brownish red, inside deep- 

 er and brighter. Seeds many, obovate, black, and pretty 

 smooth, aril white and fleshy. Embryo simple, erect, length 

 of the seed, and furnished with both perisperm and vitellus. 



ZINGIBER. 



Corolla with the interior border unilabiate. Anther dou- 

 ble, crowned with a single, horn-shaped, curved beak. 

 Capsule three-celled, three-valved. Seeds many, arilled. 

 Embryo simple, and furnished with both perisperm and vi- 

 tellus. 



SECT. I. Spikes radical. 



1. Z. officinal. Roscoe in Trans, of Linn. Soc. viii. 348. 



Leaves sub-sessile, linear-lanceolate, smooth. Spikes ele- 

 vated, oblong ; bractes acute. Lip three-lobed. 



Amomum Zingiber. Rinn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 1. 6. 



Sans. Ardn/kwin, Shn'ngMverMm. 



Arab. Zenjabil. 



Beng. and Hind. Adraka, or Ada. The dry root Soentha. 



Teling. Allam. 



Inschi, sel Inschi kua. Rheed. Mai. 11. p. 21. t. 12. 



Zingiber majus. Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 156. t. 66. Jig. 1. 



This plant is universally known, and cultivated over all 

 the warmer parts of Asia ; where to be found indigenous I 

 know not. Flowering - time the rainy season ; but it is very 

 rarely found in that state ; nor have I ever met with the 

 seeds. 



Root tuberous, biennial. Stems erect, and oblique, in- 

 vested in the smooth sheaths of the leaves ; generally three 

 or four feet hig-h, and annual. leaves sub-sessile on their 



