Zingiber. monandria monogynia. 49 



Stems animal, oblique, about three or four feet high, com- 

 pletely invested in the sheaths of the leaves. Leaves bifa- 

 rious, sessile, broad-lanceolate, entire, smooth, waved ; veins 

 numerous, slender, parallel ; deep-green above, pale under- 

 neath. Sheaths crowned with a large, broad, membranaceous, 

 emarginate ligula. Peduncle solitary, a little removed from 

 the stems, erect, from twelve to twenty-four inches long, en- 

 veloped in imbricated sheaths. Spikes oval, obtuse, or with 

 a round excavation on their apex, about the size of a goose- 

 egg. Bractes (or scales of the spike) the exterior one-flower- 

 ed, imbricated, broad-obovate, obtuse, with a broad mem- 

 branaceous border ; interior (or proper) solitary, one-flower- 

 ed, enveloping the germ, perianth, and most of the tube of 

 the corol. Flowers large, pale, of a sulphur colour. Calyx 

 superior, one leaved, sheathing- the lower half of the tube of 

 the corol. Corol; exterior border three-parted, &c. as in 

 the genus; interior, or lip broad, with the lateral lobes 

 thereof particularly large; middle division two-parted; they 

 are all beautifully curled, and of a pale yellow colour. 

 Nectarial Jilaments of K&nig as in the order. Filament 

 scarcely any. Anther large, double, with its long, curved 

 horn projecting over the lip. Stigma funnel-shaped, fringed 

 with long, distinct hairs. 



3. Z. Cdssumunar. R. 



Straight. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate. Spikes radi- 

 cal, strobiliform, oblong, acute. Bractes obovate, acumi- 

 nate. Lip three-lobed. 



Sa?ts. Xitna Ardrwk?/m. 



Hind, and Beng. Bun Ada, (wild ginger.) 



Teling. Karpushpoo, (small turmeric.) 



A native of Coromandel, Bengal, and Bahar. Flowering 

 time July and August, seed ripe in November and Decem- 

 ber. 



Root perennial, tuberous, furnished with long, white, 

 fleshy fibres, and jointed like ginger, but much larger; when 



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