46 ■ IViON-AN'DKIA MONOCIYMA. Ztngt'le**. 



bnlur, villous, uml iliate-toolhcd.— FIoK-crs large, wlate, centre o{ 

 the lip variegated with pink veins ou a joUo'.v ground ; exterior bor- 

 der of three, nearly equal, oblong, white segments, the upper one 

 puds subulatelv iVom an obtuse apex; two large spurs between the 

 base of the lip and thai of the rather lung tilaraent; aut/n'r of two 

 linear lobes, crowned with a verv large, curled, seu)i-lunar crest.— 

 Gert7i villous, nine-ribbed, tluee-celled, &c. as iu the genus. Cap- 

 sule long, nuiiow, ovate-oblong, three-celled, three-valved, surface 

 even and sniooilj, colour a biownitih red, inside deeper and bjigliter. 

 — i*Seeds manv, obovate, black, and pretty smooth, :uil white and 

 fleshy. Einhryo simple, erect, length of the seed, and furnished 

 with botlj perisperm and vitellus. 



ZimUBER, 



Corolla with the hiterior border Mniiabiale. il;/?/icr double, crowned 

 with a single, horn-shaped, cuived beak- Capsule three-ceiled, tluee- 

 valved. Seeds many, arilled. Eiabrijo simple, and furnished widi 

 both perisperm and vittdlus. 



Sect. \. Spikes radical. 



1. Z. ojjicinnle. Roscoe in Trans, of Linn. Soc. viii. 348. 

 Leaves sub-sessile, linear-lanceolate, smootlu Spikes elevated, 

 oblong; bractes acute. I^ip three-lobed. 



Amomum Zingiber. Linn. sp. pL cd. Willd. 1. 6. 

 Sans. ^T^ci^, AvdruVuw, 'sgil^'^, Shrnig?/ver?/m. 



Arab. Zenjabil. 



Beng. and Hind. Adrako, or Ada. The dry root Soantliff. 



Teling. Ailam. 



Inschi, sel Insciu kua. Jihesd. Mai. l\. p. Q\. i. 12. 



Zingiber niaj us. Riunph. Amb. 5. p. 156. t. 00. fig. 1. 



This plant is univertially known, and cultivated over all the warmer 

 parts of Asia ; Vvhere to be found iadigenou.i i know not. Flow- 

 ering time the rainy season ; buiit is very rureiy futiudiiilhat state ; 

 nor have I ever met with the s^eds. 



