*4, MONANDRii H#K&«Ya2A. ^tng^ber^. 



smooth liguia. — Spikes radical, the lower half imiuerscd in. the soil, 

 oblong, and rather loosely imbricated wiih lanceolate, coloured, cou- 

 cave, one-flowered, interior and extfiior bjactes. — Flmcers iuthef 

 small, exterior border of three, nearly e<jual, iauceolute, acuminate, 

 pale red segments ; inner or lip very pale yellow, paudunform, that 

 is with two, pretty large, rounded lobes at the base, and tlie lamwa 

 nearly oval, recuse, truncate, or emargiuate. — Filament bioad, and 

 short. Anther double, and crowned with the usual beak. — Gen.-j 

 three-celled, with many ovula in each, attached to the inner an'jle 

 of the ceil. Slig/na infundibulirGrm. 



Observation by N. 17. The Burman name is Toukia. — Cap- 

 sule ripening in November and December, ovate, triangular, acute, 

 Nviih fattened sides, smooth, pale, retuse at the base, and sur- 

 rounded with numerous withered bractes, as large as u walnut. — 

 Valves thick and flesh}', three-cornered, inner surface waved, shming, 

 scarlet ; skin leathery ; flesh spongy, pallid. — Dissepiment oblong, 

 ventricose, triangular, scarlet, at the bursting of the capsule adher- 

 ing to the inner angle of one of the valves. — Seeds obovale, horizon- 

 tal, in each cell about twelve, attached by small white fleshy placen- 

 tas to the sides of the dissepiment, faintly aromatic. — Arillus railk- 

 %vhite, leathery, loosely surrounding the seed, perforated at its top 

 •with a small toothed opening. — Integument simple, dark-purple, 

 smooth and shining, porous within and replete with a violet-co- 

 loured juice: it enters the umbiiicated base of the seed and re- 

 ceives the apex of the radicula. — Albumen white, amygdaloid, 

 conform to the seed and occupymgcliicfly its lower half, sub-obliter- 

 ate above. — Vitellus wbite^audfleahy, turbinate, constituting almost 

 entirely the upper part of the seed, ending below in a very thin .sheath 

 which covers the substance of the embryo. — Embryo cylindric-ven- 

 tricose, a? long as the seed, erect. — Cotyledon sub-cylindric, almost 

 naked. — Radicula thick, somewhat enlarged at its apex, centripetal. 



Sect. 2r Spikes termiriaL 

 9' Z. capitatum. R, 



Herbaceous, leaves linear lanceolate, stera-cl?.sping. Spike ter- 

 minal crcct^ strobiiiform^ hraci&: lanceolate. 



