54 monandrta monogynia. Zingiber. 



7. Z. squamosum. R. 



Leaves lanceolar. Spikes squarrose, half immersed in the 

 earth. Bractes linear, with long, taper, waved, recurved 

 apices. Lip three-lobed, apex bifid. 



A native of Burma, where it ripens its seeds in December. 

 From Rangoon Mr. F. Carey sent the fresh roots, entire 

 capsules, and ripe seeds to this garden, where the plants from 

 both the seeds and roots grew freely, and the latter blossom- 

 ed in August. 



Root tuberous, as in ginger, &c. Stems herbaceous, con- 

 siderably recurvate, from two to three feet high, entirely hid 

 in the sheaths of the leaves. Leaves bifarious, sessile, lan- 

 ceolar, smooth above, slightly villous underneath, cuspidate. 

 Sheaths with two large conical processes rising from their 

 months, one on each side. Spikes from the base of the stems, 

 three-fourths hid in the earth, ovate, laxly imbricated, size 

 of a goose-egg. Bractes green ; the exterior solitary, one- 

 flowered, linear, concave, long, taper, waved, recurved. In- 

 ner, one or two, (generally one), as long as the tube of the 

 corol, with a three-toothed apex. Flowers pretty large, 

 inodorous. Calyx superior, &c. as in the other species. Corol 

 with a slender tube. Exterior border of three, pink-colour- 

 ed, lanceolate, acute segments. Inner, or lip two-lobed at 

 the base ; apex bifid, colour a speckled mixture of purple, 

 red, and yellow. Filament short, anther and beak together 

 nearly as long as the lip. Germ villous, three-celled, with 

 many ovula in each. Style and stir/ma as in the genus. 

 Capsule short-pedicelled, ovate, conic, three-celled, three- 

 valved, opening from the apex, inside of the valves bright 

 scarlet while fresh. (Those sent from Rangoon by Mr. F. 

 Carey, were, when they reached me, perfectly dry, and then 

 measured three inches in length, and one in diameter.) Seeds 

 many in each cell, arilled, arranged in two rows, and attach- 

 ed to the inner edge of the partitions. Aril complete, fleshy, 

 white, Perisperm conform to the seed. Vitellus covers 



