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every part of the embryo, which is clavate, and nearly as long 

 as the seed. 



8. Z. panduratum. /?. 



Leaves petioled above their sheaths, broad-lanceolar, 

 smooth ; ligula large and scariose. Spikes radical, half im- 

 mersed in the earth, lax. Bractes lanceolate. Lip panduri- 

 fonn, with oval, emarginate lamina. 



This middling- sized species is a native of the country 

 about Rangoon. From thence Mr. F. Carey sent seeds to the 

 Botanic garden in 1808, and in July, 1810, the plants raised 

 from them blossomed abundantly. 



Root; numerous, long, fleshy, fibrous fibres, some of 

 which swell into lanceohtr tubers, as in Curcuma ; no palmate 

 tubers, as in that genus. It possesses but little taste and no 

 fragrance. Stalks erect, herbaceous, about three feet high. 

 Leaves bifarious, petioled above their sheaths, broad-lanceo- 

 lar, acute, smooth on both sides ; from six to twelve inches 

 long, from three to four broad. Sheaths smooth above their 

 respective leaves; each ends in a very long, scariose, smooth 

 ligula. Spikes radical, the lower half immersed in the soil, 

 oblong, and rather loosely imbricated with lanceolate, colour- 

 ed, concave, one-flowered, interior and exterior bractes. 

 Floxvers rather small ; exterior border of three, nearly equal, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, pale red segments ; inner or lip very 

 pale yellow, pandariform, that is with two, pretty large, 

 rounded lobes at the base, and the lamina nearly oval, retuse, 

 truncate, or emarginate. Filament broad, and short. An- 

 ther double, and crowned with the usual beak. Germ three- 

 celled, with many ovula in each, attached to the inner angle 

 of the cell. Stigma infundibuliform. 



SECT. II. Spikes terminal. 



9. Z. capitatum. R. 



Herbaceous ; leaves linear-lanceolate, stem-clasping. Spikt- 

 terminal, erect, strobiliform ; bractes lanceolate. 



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