Hed^chium. monandRia tionogynia. 9 



nate, three-sided, pretty smooth, size of a gooseberry, three-celled, 

 three-valved, opening from the apex» — Seed solitary, nearly round, 

 smooth, dark grey, resting on a small, squamiform aril, which is at- 

 tached to and surrounds the short umbilical cord which unites the 

 seed to the bottom of the partition. Integument double ; exterior 

 spongy; inner thin and rather hard, adhering to the exterior, and to 

 the perisperm. — Perisperm conform to the seed, homy, tinged with 

 pale blue ; a fissure replete with a brown substance penetrates from 

 the base to a considerable distance upwards. — Embrt/o pure white, 

 hooked, with the convexity upwards, which corresponds with the 

 periphery of the seed. 



HEDYCHIUM. Kdn. 



Corollawiih a long, slender tube ; both borders three-parted ; inner 

 resupinate. Anther double, naked. Capsule three-celled, three-valved. 

 Seeds numerous, arilled. Embryo simple, and furnished with both 

 perisperm and vitellus. 



1. H. coronarium. Linn, sp.pl. ed. JVilld. \. p. 10. Ku?u'g in Refz. 

 obs. 3. 73. 



Leaves lanceolate. Spikes compactly imbricated; segments of the 

 cleft lip of the corol semi-lunar. 



Gandsulium. Rumph. amh. 5. t. 6Q.f. 3. 



Goruk-nathha of the Bengalees, also by them called Doolala-cham- 

 pa. 



A native of various parts of Bengal and the neighbouring provinces. 

 Flowers during the rains ; and the seeds ripen in the early part of 

 the cool season. 



Root horizontal, perennial, round, fleshy, marked with annular cica- 

 trices, about as thick as a man's thumb, fleshy, with fibrous ramifica- 

 tions issuing from the cicatrices ; taste simply herbaceous. — Stems 

 erect, 3-4 feet high, round, every where covered with the sheaths of the 

 leaves. — ieai'es sessile, alternate, bifarious, lanceolate, tapering to an 

 evanescent point; above, a deep smooth green ; beloW; striated^ pale. 



