40 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. AniOiniim. 



Iv three-lobed, yellow, and about as long- as the exterior 

 border. Filament broad, particularly toward the base, 

 where it has a small coloured hornlet on eaeli side. Anther 

 doable, surmounted with a large, three-toothed coronet. 

 Germ clavate, obscurely three-sided, thr< e-celled, with many 

 ovula in each, attached to the partitions. Stigma funnel- 

 shaped, somewhat bilabiate. Nectarial bodies of Koniff 

 are here larger, and longer than in the oilier species. 



3. A. aculeatum* /»'. 



Leaves sub-a ssfle, cordate-lanceolate. Spikes obovate, lax, 

 even with the grouncL IAp oval, ventricose. Crest amply 

 three-lobed. Capsules echinate, 



A native of the Malay Archipelago. It was raised from 

 seed sent to the Botanic garden at Calcutta by Mr. W . Rox- 

 burgh, in 1802, where tin- plants blossom in April and May, 

 and ripen their seed in October and November. 



Hoot perennial, tuberous like ginger, with many, thick, 

 fleshy fibres. Stems a little recurvate, the thickness of a 

 walking cane, slightly pubescent ; from five to ten feet high. 

 Leaver alternate, bifarious, \ i i \ short-petioled, cordate-lance- 

 olate, mucronate, smooth, dark green; generally fir twelve 



to eighteen inches long, and from three to four inches broad. 

 Sheaths half stem-clasping, villous on the outside. Liguia 

 short, and of a semi-lunar shape. Scapes issuing from the 

 base of the stem, under the sur&ce of the ground, where it 

 joins the root, diverging a little way under the surface of the 

 earth, invested in oval, fleshy scales; those next to the spike 

 longer, and more pointed. Spikes obovate, rising obliquely 

 among, or near the stems, just so much as to elevate its 

 flower-bearing apex aboye the surface of the earth. Flowers 

 numerous, and expand in succession ; prevailing colour deep 

 orange. Bractes; exterior one-flowered, linear-oblong, length 

 of the tube of the corol ; inner lubnla with two-toothed mar- 

 gin, and inserted round the base of the germ, like an inferior 

 perianth. Calyx above, tubular, two or three-toothed. Corol, 



