A mo mum. Si o'S hdUWiX mo n o g y N i /i . ^ 



form apcA. funning uiicommonly deep pcucUcs for ihe small yellyw 



Jloicefi . 



jiMOMUM. Scfneb. gen. plant. _V. 3. 



Coroljta Vvitli the interior border unildLbiaie. Anther double, f>ui- 

 jnoiuited v,ilh an taiire, or lubate ciest C'a/7^w/e three-celled, three- 

 .: -.' ot-'ft/* -luiuiy, arilled. • JbVw^ryo siiiiplf^ and turuislicd with 

 ^u.,jjciiiSj)ei"UJ, a!id Ulelius. 



1. A. c(:rdamai7iUiu. Linn. qjec. pi. ed. JViltd. i. 8. 



J^euve|,shortr.ptitiok;d, lunceolar. Spikes liulf immosfd irt-the 

 ^eart!.', loosely iiubricaled witli viiious, laiiceoliile, ucuic, one-ilovi tred 

 br.ctes. Lip \vitli. the auLcrior mariiin iliroe-iobtd. Crest llnee-iobed- 



Caruaunjivmiu luiuu;. Rnmjj/i. uiub. o. p. l^iS. t. Cij. /". i. 



A uaiive of Sumutm, and otlitr islands Lo tlie.eub'.Vcasd kj- I'le Bav 

 vX. Bengal, and sent by Dr. Cliurie**, Campbell houi Bencodku, to 

 tl;e Botanic (>arden at Cti/c/<//c2, \i lierc il blosboni.s lu April, 



Root perennial^ creeping undei the fciviface of the s^jil, like tbat of 

 idfig^er; but smaller, less flesliy, more. ligneous, and wlutq ; fri^.i^.wiueli 

 descend, and spread, many lloshy fibres. — StetKS about bieia.ia!, 

 several rising obliquely lo tlie height of from two to four luct, 

 about a^ thick as a stout ralan, invested iu the smoolh, deep green 

 i)healhs of the leaves. — Leaves alternate, bifarious, short-petioied 

 un their smoodi stem-claspmg sheaths ; from broad-ianceolaie l>o- 

 ioWj^tO uairo\v-!anceolule at top, entire and smooth oa both -sides; 

 point long, andj-vt;r.} tine; length from si.\ to twelve inches.— ^/^iAv* 

 radical, sessile, oblong, appeariiig.^iupugst the sterns,, half immeised 

 in the earth, loosei\ imbricated Vvith one-tiowered, lanceolate, acute, 

 viilqiiSj nervous, scariose, ash-coloured bractes ; when old their brit- 

 tle tops.areofien.biokeu ofi.- — Brucics. iiesidessthe CKterior one- 

 tiowered oue§, jusi mentioned, there is an iauer, striated, downy, 

 scariose, two-toothed, tubular. one, (which i have sometimes consi- 

 dered an exterior and inferior cali/x, and which Koenig sometimei 

 called an iavoJucrej) inserled round the base of the ^eim.^^Fiowers 



