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a little rugose, arilled. Aril white, nearly complete, and 

 ragged at the upper end. Perisperm conform to the seed, 

 cinereous. Embryo cylindric, central, nearly as long as the 

 perisperm. 



6. Z. rubens. i?. 



Leaves lanceolar. Spikes lax, half immersed in the earth. 

 JBractes linear-lanceolate, straight. Lip narrow-ovate, en- 

 tire. 



A native of the interior of Bengal ; from the district of 

 Rungpore Dr. Buchanan sent the plants to the Botanic gar- 

 den, where they blossom in August. 



Root tuberous, &c. as in the other species. Stems herbace- 

 ous, somewhat decimate, from two to four feet high. Leaves 

 alternate, bifarious, sessile on their sheaths, smooth on both 

 sides; general length about twelve inches, and from four to 

 five broad. Sheaths with a large, membranaceous, stipula- 

 ry process at the mouth. Spikes several from the base of 

 the stems, where they join the root, half immersed in the earth, 

 sub-obovate, fastigiate, laxly imbricated with numerous 

 straight, erect, linear-lanceolate, acute, involute, red, slightly 

 villous, exterior bractes. Inner bractes, or inferior perianth, 

 the length of the tube, but shorter than the exterior bractes, 

 and irregularly tri-dentate. Calyx superior, sub-cylindric, 

 membranaceous, pellucid, most slightly villous; mouth three- 

 toothed. Carol with a long, slender, cylindric tube; seg- 

 ments of the exterior border linear-lanceolate, acute, red. 

 Lip ovate-oblong, entire, speckled with red and yellow. 

 Filament scarcely any. Anther of two long lobes, crowned 

 with the long, characteristic, curved horn, which is incum- 

 bent on and reaches to the apex of the lip. Nectarial fila- 

 ments ofKonig oblong, and obtuse. Germ hairy, three-cell- 

 ed, with many ovula in each, attached to the axis. Stigma 

 funnel-shaped, and ciliate. Capsule 



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