Zingiber. monandriA monocynia. 63 



flowered, linear, concave, long, taper, waved, recurved. Inmr, oi-n 

 or tvi'O, (generally one), as long as the tube of the corol, with a three- 

 toothed apex. — Flozvers pretty large, inodorous.—Cc/yx superior, See. 

 as in the otlier species. — Curol with a slender tube. Exterior bmder of 

 three, pink-coloured, lanceolate, acute segments. Liner, or lip two. 

 lobed at tho base ; apex bi£d, colour a speckled mixture of purple^ 

 red, and yellow. Filament short, c?it!:er and beak together nearly as 

 long as the lip. — Germ villous, three-celied, with many ovula in each. 

 St^le and stigma as in the genus. — Capsule short-pedicelled, ovate, co- 

 nic, three-celled, three-valved, opening from the apex, inside of tlie 

 valves bright scarlet while fresh. (Those sent from Rangoon by Mr. 

 F. Carey, were, when they reached me, perfectly dry, and then mea- 

 sured three inches in length, and one in diameter.) — Seeds many in 

 each cell, arilled, arranged ia two rov/s, and attached to the inner- 

 edge of the partitions. Aril complete, fleshy, white. — Perisperm 

 conform to the seed. Fitellus covets every part of thecwi6rj/o,whicis 

 is clavate, and nearly as long as the seed. 



8. Z. panduratuni. R. 



Leaves peiioled above their sheaths, broad-lanceolar, smooth; 

 Uguia large and scariose. Spikes radical, half inimersed in thr earth, 

 lax. Bracies lanceolate. Lip panduriform, with oval, emarginatc 

 lamina. 



Tiiis middling sized species is a native of the country about jRan^ 

 goo?i. From tiience Mr, F. Carey sent seeds to the Botanic Garden 

 in 1808, and in July, 1810, the plants raised from them blossomed 

 abundantly. 



Root; numerous, long, fleshy, fibrous fibres, some of which sv^ell 

 into "lanceolar tubers, as in Curcuma ; no palmate tuljers, as in 

 that genus. It possesses but little taste aud no fragrance. — Sialh 

 erect, herbaceous, about three feet high, — Xeacsibifaiious, p«=tioled 

 above their flieaths, broad-ianceokr, acute, smooth on botli sides: ifoxn 

 six to twelve inches lon^-, by th/se to four broad. — Sheathe smooth 

 above their respective leaves j ?£ch ends in ^ very Icugi ;c Afiw^e. 



