Atnommn. Mor^AxoaiA mohooy.vta. 4i 



cleaver colour, and harder texture. — Embryo sub-cyliudiic, the in- 

 ner end, or cotyledou, lodged in the vkcllus, which in some seeds 

 it passes entirely through. Radicle poiutin-;- directly to the unibi- 



4. A. maximum' R. 



Leave* i»etioIed, laiiceolar, vi'lh-us .Pide^neath- Spikes oval, jveu 



.th the earth. Bractes lanceolaie. Lip elliptie. Coronet of one ae- 

 ini-hniar lobe. Capsules round, nine-winged. 



This plant is now growing in the Conipsny'!- Botanic Garden near 

 Calcutta; it was introduced from the j/a/ay islands by the late Co- 

 lonel Kyd. riowernig time the hot season ; the seeds ripen three or 

 '"our months afterwards. 



Root tuberous, as in ginger, but much larger, and with large, 

 -onical bulb-iiko bases to the oldest &itm&.— Stems nearly erect, 

 round, and smooth ; from six to eight or more feet high, mvesled ui 

 the suicoih, long sheaths of i\xe leaves.— Learns alternate, petioled, 

 lancoohir, and linear-lanceolar, acute, smooth above; villous under- 

 neath, Avirh muny large parallel veins ; from two to three feet long, 

 and about six indies broad ; ^*hen dry the underside appears to be 

 more closely covered, with -.nost beautiful soft, sericeous down, than 

 while tVe^li. — Pe//o/t'5, the sheathing part long, between each petiole 

 and its leaf there is a short, somewhat triangular portion, with a stipa- 

 lary process, or liguta at the inside of its base. — Spikes radical, short, 

 their iiower-bearmg apex being only just above the earth ; below the 

 riowers it is covered with large, oval, concave scales. — Bractes sdli- 

 tary, one-tlowcred, lanceolate, membranaceous, rather longer than 

 the tubes of the tlowers. — Gz/j/.r tubular, a little gibbous,lengiliof the 

 tube of thv^, corol •, mouth throe-toothed. — Core/ ; Tube funnel-shaped. 

 Exterior border three-parted, as usual ; but here ihey all converge 

 up\v?^rd into one helmet over the anther and stigma ; as in the Orclndea. 

 Lrp entire, expanding, oblong, marked with a yellow stripe down the 

 •middle; margins 'vaved, and crenulate,' — Filament short, from the 

 mouth of the tube of the corol, opposite to it's interior border, oa 



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