43 MONANDaiA MOKociVNiA. ji»u>mum.. 



each sideof ita iuserlion, is a small liornlet. Anther double, or two- 

 lobed, and crowned with a beautiful, broad, senji-liuiai- crt.st. Atx- 

 tarial bodies of Kiinig linear, fluted, and truncate. — Germ shorc- 

 pedicelled, striated, three-celled, with numerous oiWa in fcacb, attach- 

 ed to the inner angle, (axis). Stifle slender. Siipna funne!-i>haj)td, 

 but shut traiisversfcly, except durmg authesis. — Lapsulc almost glu- 

 bvdar, size of u gooseberry, three-t tilled, three-valvi d, oinamtnLed w ith 

 nine, hrm, sliort, ragged (when old, and dr\) mc-mbrLinuceoiii \viiigs. 

 O^w. The seeds possess a warm, pungent, aromatic tiiste, not un- 

 like that of Caruanioms, but by no means so gralelul. 







5. A. dealbaium. li. • 



Leaves broad-lauceolur, villous imderneath. Spikes radical, brac(t:s 

 lanceolate, obtuse, (very perishable.) Exterior border vaulted. Lip 

 Vound-oval. Ciest of one, broad, truncated lobe. Capsules o\ale- 

 (ubloug, nine-vvinj:ed. 



A stately species, a native of Chiiiagoi/g, and other countries w iiich 

 form the eastern frouiier of Bengal i from the former it has b<?en intro- 

 duced into the Botanic Garden near Calcutta, where il grows luxuri- 

 antly', andtlowers freely during the months of March aim April j and 

 the seeds ripen in September and October. 



Roots perennial, tuberous, crooked,jointed, creeping, like common 

 ginger, with strong, fleshy fibres ; inward colour of the tubers pale 

 dull yellow, and when newly cut consideiably uiomatic. — Steins nu- 

 merou erect in the centre, and oblique in tiie circumfeience of 

 the clump, from three to live feet high. — Leaven sub-bifanous, the 

 lower sessile on their sheaths and oblong, the Superior short-petioled 

 and lanceolar ; all are very villous, and paler underneath, length from 

 six to tweniy-four inches, bieadth from three to six. — Sheatlis 

 smooth, rising in a bifid ligula above the mouth. — Spilces radical, 

 roundish-obovate. Scajje short and imbricated with scales, ^c. — 

 Bracles from ovate to lanceolate, obtuse, very perishable, pale, one- 

 Bowered. In this species there is no in?ier bracte, like an interior ca^ 

 i^'X attached to the base of the geria, 'io general in this, Uiitural or- 



