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KEMPFERIA ROTUNDA. — ~~ ZEDOARY. 
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SYNONYMA.  Zedoaria. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. 1. Zedoaria 
longa. IL. Zedoaria rotunda. Bauh. Pin. p. 31. Park. Theat. 
p. 1612.  Raii. Hist. p. 1340. Gerard, Emac. p. 1623. Malan- 
Kua. Rheed. Hort. Malab. tom. 11. p. 17.Aabe9. 
Class Monandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 7. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cor. 6-partita: laciniis 3 majoribus patulis, unica 
bipartita. Stigma bilamellatum, 
Sp. Ch. K. fol. eget ae 
THE root is perennial, tuberous, fleshy, compressed, externally 
of an ash colour, internally of a bluish grey: the flower stem is 
covered with sheaths, and rises very little above the ground: the 
jeaves are large, radical, nearly elliptical, pointed, veined, and 
stand upon broad footstalks: the calyx is small and obscure: the 
corolla is monopetalous, consisting of a long slender conical tube, 
divided at the upper extremity into six parts, three of which are 
long, narrow, spreading, inserted below the others, of which two 
are oval, pointed, and erect; the remaining one is deeply cut into 
two obversely heart-shaped divisions, of a reddish colour, and 
beautifully striated with purple: there is but one filament, which 
is membranous, and notched at the end: the anthera is linear, 
doubled, entirely adherent, and scarcely rises above the tube of 
the corolla: the germen is roundish, and supports a style, which is 
about the lengthy of the tube, furnished with a folded roundish 
stigma: the capsule is triangular, divided into three cells, and as 
many valves, and contains numerous small seeds, 
On the authority of Linnzeus, the Colleges of London and Edin- 
_ burgh have referred the officinal Zedoary to this plant, which is a 
native of the East Indies. But Bergius informs us, that he received 
