12 MONANDRIA MONOGYXiA. Hedychium, 



3. H. gracile. R. 



Leaves lanceolar. Spikes terminal, open ; flowers solitary, scat- 

 tered ; segments of the bifid, sessile lip, semi-lanceolar, the other 

 five segments of the corol linear. 



Khasee name, Kattia Laphi/a. 



Obs. This is a slender species, about three feet in height, a native 

 of the mountains on the North-East border of Bengal. Like the pre- 

 ceding two species it flowers in the rainy season. Its solitary-flow- 

 ered spike of white* corols with their scarlet filament, and its lan- 

 ceolar leaves, distinguish it from H. angu^tifolium. 



Note. The following fzm species, discovered since the Author oj this 

 work left the Botanic Garden, are added bj/ Mr. N. Wallich, the 

 present superintendent of that institution. 



4. H. tillosum. Wall. 



Spike elongated, villous, open. Fascicles approximate and co- 

 pious, scattered or paired, three-flowered ; lip short-clawed, bifid, 

 of equal length with the five linear segments of the corol. 



A native of the mountains North-East of Bengal, from whence 

 our indefatigable collector of plants, Mr. Matthew Robert Smith, 

 sent specimens to me jn 1815. Flowering time the rainy season, 



Khasee name, Kattia Ram Rait. 



Stems upright, slender, smooth, as well as the' leaves, from two 

 to three feet. — Leaves ij^t, lanceolar-oblong, elevated from the back 

 of the sheaths by a very short petiole ; glaucous underneath. Sheaths 

 terminated by an oblong, obtuse, closely adpressed, long ligula. — 

 Spike terminal, erect, cylindric, obtuse, from 10-12 inches long; 

 all its parts covered with a short, sericeous down. — Bractes oval, 

 much shorter than the tube, of a reddish tint ; exterior or com- 

 man, three, seldom two-flowered, flat ; interior, one to each flower, 

 the base of which it embraces. — Flowers delightfully fragrant even 

 when dry, less succulent than those of H. coronarium and angusti- 



• There is a variety of this species with cream-coloured flowers. Ed, 



