12 MOXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Hcdljchhtm. 



together conform to the seed ; the former occupies the lower 

 and exterior portion; and the latter the upper and interior 

 portion, and is in immediate contact with the embryo. Em- 

 bryo simple, subcylindric, nearly as long as the seed. 



Obs. This, to me, is the most charming of all the plants 

 of this natural order that I have yet met with ; the great 

 length of time it continues to throw out a profusion of large, 

 beautiful, fragrant blossoms, makes it particularly desirable. 



2. U.favum. R. 



Leaves broad-lanceolar. Spikes terminal, imbricated. 

 Bractes about four-flowered : interior two segments of the 

 corol linear; lip obcordate, with apex deeply retuse. 



A native of the vallies amongst the hills near Silhet, where 

 it is called Kattia-n'tyam by the natives. Floweriiuj time 

 the rainy season. 



Root tuberous, like that of most other Scitaminea. Struts 

 ,ivct, two or three feel high, and rather stout. Leans 

 laneeolar, very fine pointed, smooth on both sides. Sheaths 

 smooth, w itli a very large, smooth membranaceous stipula 

 rising far aboi e the mouth. Spike lerminal, solitary, erect, 

 oblono-, imbricated: from six to eight inches long. Flowers 

 numerous, large, yellow, resembling those of II. coronarinm, 

 fragrant. Bractes; exterior between oval and oblong, rather 

 obtuse, smooth, finely nerved, three or four-flowered, about 

 two or two and half indies long ami nearly one and a half 

 broad. Interior, one to each flower, and much smaller. 

 Calyx superior, nearly as long as the tube of the corol, mem- 

 branaceous, inflated, obliquely two or three-toothed. Corol ; 

 tube slender, length of the exterior bractes, all the five pro- 

 per segments of the border linear, the inner two more deeply 

 coloured and obtuse. Lip or sixth segment, obcordate, deep- 

 ly retuse, placed on the interior or upper side opposite to 

 the filament. Filament linear, and together with the two- 

 lobed anther about as long as the lip. Germ hairy, three- 

 celled, with numerous ovula in each, attached to the inner 



