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like Z. Cassumimar, that the same drawing's and description 

 may well serve for both. 



10. Z. marginatum. R. 



Leaves sessile, lanceolate; Ugula large and membrana- 

 ceous. Spikes terminal. Bractes obovate, with transparent, 

 membranaceous margin. Nectary three-lobed. 



11. Z. elalum. R. 



Leaves bifarious, linear, recurved. Spikes terminal, lan- 

 ceolar, compactly imbricated with lanceolate, one-flowered 

 bractes. 



A native of the interior of Bengal ; in the Botanic garden 

 it blossoms in July and August, and the seeds ripen in Sep- 

 tember and October. 



Root tuberous, as in common ginger, but inwardly yellow ; 

 from the tubers proceed the proper roots, many of which end 

 in oblong, paler coloured tubers as in Curcuma. Stems her- 

 baceous, straight, from four to five feet high, including the 

 spike. Leaves bifarious, linear, recurved, smooth above ; 

 with many ad pressed, short, soft, white hairs underneath ; 

 from twelve to eighteen inches long, and only one inch 

 broad. Sheaths a little hairy ; mouth crowned with a very 

 narrow, membranaceous process. Spikes terminal, solitary, 

 of a narrow lanceolar shape, six inches long, and three in cir- 

 cumference, every part compactly imbricated with lanceolate, 

 one-flowered bractes, which are an inch and a half long, and 

 a little hairy on the outside. Bractes ; interior, or inferior 

 perianth shorter and broader tbitn the exterior, but like them 

 stiff, and a little hairy. Calyx superior, white, smooth ; 

 mouth unequally toothed, little more than half the length of 

 the bractes. Corol exactly as in the other species, only con- 

 siderably longer ; the colour a tolerable bright, lively yellow. 

 Stamina with a short filament, and very long curved beak 

 crowning the linear two-lobed anther. Nectarial bodies su- 

 bulate. Germ oval, hairy, three-celled, with numerous ovula 



