50 MONANDRU MONOGYNIA. Zingiber. 



fresh of a deep yellow ; possessing a strong, not very agree- 

 able, camphoraceous smell, and warm, spicy, bitterish taste. 

 Stents animal, erect, round, from three to five feet high, en- 

 tirely enveloped in the imbricated sheaths of the leaves. 

 Leaves bifarious, approximate, sessile on their sheaths, linear- 

 lanceolate, deep green above ; villous, and paler underneath, 

 where the nerve also is hairy like the sheaths ; from one 

 to two feet long, and about three inches broad. Sheaths 

 clothed with exceedingly pungent hairs on the outside; 

 their mouths ending in a stipulary process on each side of 

 the insertion of the leaf. Scapes radical, from Six to twelve 

 inches long, invested in several oblong, downy sheaths. 

 Spikes oblong, strobilifonn, compact, sharp-pointed, closely 

 Lubricated v\iih numerous obovate, acuminate, greenish 

 ferruginous (where exposed), villous braetes. flowers so- 

 litary, (that is. »>ne to each bracte of the spike, and blossom- 

 ing in succession.) large, every part of a pale, uniform, sul- 

 phur colour. Calyx double ; the exterior smooth, spathi- 

 form, three-dentate one, may be considered a bracte; it is 

 inserted round the base of the germ, which, as well as the 

 inner, or proper perianth, it entirely envelopes; when forci- 

 bly expanded, oval. Inner or proper perianth, superior, one- 

 leaved, somewhat gibbous, membranaceous, three-toothed, 

 on the outside divided nearly half way down. Carol ; tube 

 slender, as long as the Scale of the spike ; npper division of 

 the exterior border boat shaped, projecting over the stamen; 

 under, two narrower and reflexed under the lip. Lip three- 

 lobed ; lateral lobes obliquely obovate, erect ; middle lobe 

 nearly round, with the apex emarginate, and the border 

 slightly curled. Stapi- Anther ending in a long, subulate, 

 recurved beak. 



4. Z. roseum. Roscoe in Trans, of Linn. Soc. 8. 348. 

 Leaves short petioled, lanceolate. Spikes lax, half im- 

 mersed in the earth. Braetes lanceolate, coloured. Lip entire. 

 Ainomum roseum. Corom. pi. 2. N. 126. 



