Hedycliium, monandria monogynia. i\ 



vitelhs togt'tlier conform to the seed; the former occupies the lower 

 and exterior portion ; and the latter the upper and interior portion 

 and is in hnmediate contact with the embryo, — Emhrijo simple, sub- 

 cylindric, nearly as long as the seed, 



Obs. This, to nie, is the most charming of all the plants of this 

 natural order that 1 have yet met v.ilh; the great length of time it 

 continues to throw o;\t a profusion of large, beautiful, fragrant blos- 

 soms, makes it particularly desijabie, 



2. H. an gust) folium. H, 



Leaves linear-lanceolate. Spikes open; fascicles of flowers sub- 

 tern, segments of the cleft lip oblong ; the other five segments of the 

 corol linear. 



BenZ' Bhoo-ada. 



Native of Chiitagong, Silhet, and the eastern parts of Bengal, 

 where it flowers about the beginning of the rains, in June. 



Root tuberous, horizontal, jointed, &c. as in the other scitamineous 

 plants. — Stems erect, 3-6 feet high, entirely invested in the sheaths 

 of the leaves. — Leaves bifarious, sessile on their smooth sheaths, nar- 

 row-lanceolate, very fine, I may say filiform, pointed, smooth on both 

 sides ; length 10-14 inches, by 1-2 broad. — Spike terminal, erect, ri- 

 gid, 6-18 inches long, smooth. Fascicles of flowers generally three- 

 fold, and spreading out considerably from the rachis. — Bractes, exteri- 

 or of the fascicle cylindrical, linear ; interior, one to each flower, and 

 smaller. — Flozvers rather small, dull red (lateritius,) generally about 

 four in the fascicle, and expanding in succession. — Calyx superior, cylin- 

 dric, length of the tube of the corol; mouth equally three-toothed. — Co" 

 rol; tube slender, cylindric, about an inch long; 5 segments of the bor- 

 der linear (sub-filiform,) variously revolute. Lip lateral, with linear, 

 channelled and two-parted lamina ; the segments thereof semi-oval. — • 

 Filament opposite to the lip, and twice its length, nearly straight, 

 filiform, grooved for the style. Anther two-lobed, naked. — Germ oval, 

 a little hairy, three-celled, with many ovula in each, attached to the 

 axis. Style filiform, its base embraced by the usual two subulate bo- 

 dies. Stigma f'.mnel-forra, projecting from the apex of the anther. 



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