Hedijclaitm. laexANDRiA MONoaTNjAv 8ii 



resembles ulien in flower. Anther with a similunar ^ving oa eac'it 



side. Germ one-celled, containing many ovida, attached to three-, 



parietal receptacles.* 



The foUozcing plant y zchich was omitted through an oversighiin ici* 

 proper place, viz. next after Hedychiam coronarium, is here inserted 

 at the end of the natural order of Scitaminea^ 



JiedycJiium favum. Tl. 



Leaves broad-lanceolar. Spikes terminal, imbricated. Bradest 

 about four-llowered ; interior two-segments of the corol linear; lip 

 obcordate, with apex deeply reluse. 



A native of the vallies amongst the hiii3 near Silhef, whore it is call- 

 ed Kattia-r/t) am by the natives^ Flowering time the ramy bcasou. 



Root tuberous, hke that oS most oiher Scif amines.— Stems evect, 

 two or three feet- high, ai>d rather stout — Leam lanceolar, very line 

 pointed, smooth on both sides. Sheaths smooth, with a very large^ 

 smooth membranaceousstipula rising far above the mouth. — Spikeier^ 

 minal, solitary, erect, oblong, imbricated ; length six or eight inches. 

 — Flozcers numerous, large, yellow, resembling thoffe of H. coronari^. 

 im, flagrant.— Bracto ,• ea/e/w between oval, and oblong, rather 

 obtuse, smooth, tinely nerved, three or four-flowered, about two or 

 two and half inches long and nearly one and a. half broad. Interior, 

 one to each flower and much smaller.— Ca/yx superior, nearly as 

 long as the tube of the corol, membranaceous, inflated, obliquely two 



or three-toothed Corol; Tube slender,length of the exterior bractes, . 



all the iwe proper segments of the border linear, the inner two more 

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

 Iv retuse, placed on the enterior or upper side opposite to the fi\di' 

 menu— Filament linear, and together with the two-lobed anther 

 about as long as the Wp.—Germ hairy, three-celled, with numerous 

 ovula in each, attached to the inner angle. Style length of the co- 



* This Ijeautiful plant is a second species of tlie genus Manfisia, w hich has been 

 ejtablisbed by Dr. Sims, and confirmed by the illustrious author of the article GMba^. 

 in Rees's New C yclopaedia.— N. W. 



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