|0 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. H-at/chiuM. 



base to a considerable distance upwards. Embryo pure 

 white, hooked, with the convexity upward-. «lnch corres- 

 ponds with the periphery of the >eed. 



HEDYCHIL'M. Kom. 

 Corolla with a long, slender tube; bath borders three- 

 parted : inner re>upinate. Amther double, naked. Cap- 

 sule three-celled, thr v U numerous, ardk-d. 

 Embryo >im faraiehed with both perispenn aud 

 vittrllu*. 



1. H. coronarium. Linn. -p. pi. ed. Willd. i. p. 10. Konia 



m Rtz. Ob*, a. 7a 



Leaves Ian s compactly imbricated ; - 



««•/* of the clett lip ut'thf b atinnar. 



1 .d*uliuin. Rumph. Amb. b. t. 69.f. 3. 



Goruk-nath'i of the Bengalees, also by tliem called Doo- 

 lala-champa. 



A !i iT'.\ . • t rafiona parti !•• .^al and the neighbouring 

 provinces. Flowers danag ike nun>: and tin. needs riptu 

 in the early part of th> cool m - 



Root horizontal, perennial, round, rle-liy. nnrked with 

 annular cicatrices, ■boot a» thick a> a man's thumb, fleshy, 

 with ribrous raniinV.r - _ i die cicatrices; ta>te 



simplv aernaceoas. Stewu i pert, from three to four feet high, 

 round, every wl r»rd with the Hheathsof thelea 



Leaves sessile, alternate, bikariona, lanceolate, tapering to 

 an evanescent point ; above, a deep smooth green ; below, 

 striated, pal*-, and slightly i ivered with depressed, soft, 

 white hair> ■ from aine to twelve inches long, and about two 

 broad. Shtmtiu smooth on both sides, ^rriut* il. terminat- 

 ing in a ligulated process, (as in man) _ tases) which 

 -parted. Spike terminal, solitary, erect, linear- 

 oblong, about the size of the thumb, compactly imbricated 

 with many large, oval, concave, green, common, permanent 



