Hedychium,. monandria monogynia. 13 



angle. Style length of the corol. Stigma large, and villous 

 Capsule turbinate, size of an olive, smooth, when ripe yellow, 

 three-celled, three- valved. Seeds a few, smooth, bright deep 

 red, with a partial ragged aril of the same colour. Embryo 

 simple, sub-lanceolate, furnished with both perisperm and 

 vitellus.* 



3. H. angustifolium. R. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate. Spikes open ; fascicles of flowers 

 subtern, segments of the cleft lip oblong- ; the other five seg- 

 ments of the corol linear. 



Iieng. Bhoo-ada. 



Native of Chittagong, Silhct, and the eastern parts of 

 Bengal, where it flowers about the beginning" of the rains, in 

 June. 



Root tuberous, horizontal, jointed, &c. as in the oilier 

 scitamineous plants. Stems erect, from three to six feet high, 

 entirely invested in the sheaths of the leaves. Leaves bifarious, 

 sessile on their smooth sheaths, narrow-lanceolate, very fine, 

 I may say filiform, pointed, smooth on both sides ; from ten 

 to fourteen inches long, by one to two broad. Spike terminal, 

 erect, rigid, from six to eighteen inches long, smooth. Fas- 

 cicles of flowers generally three-fold, and spreading out con- 

 siderably from the rachis. B ractes ; exterior of the fascicle 

 cylindrical, linear; interior, one to each flower, and smaller. 

 Flowers rather small, dull red (lateritius,) generally about 



* In January 1816 I received roots of this most charming species 

 from Mr. Smith at Silhet, which produced blossoms in the Bo- 

 tanic garden in October the following year. It differs from H. 

 coronarium, in regard to its flowers, which are about one third 

 smaller, having the inner segments of the corol linear clavate, the 

 fissure of the lip narrow with straight sides, and its base contract- 

 ing a linear claw. They partake not only of the yellow colour 

 of those of Michelia champaca, but possess even the peculiar 

 fragrance of the latter, only in a less powerful and therefore more 

 grateful degree. In stature and leaves both species are alike. 



