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natives, as well as Europeans. It deserves to be noticed that 

 another white flower, still more universally cultivated and equally 

 fragrant, the Gardenia florida, is called Gandaraja (the King's or 

 regal perfume) in Sanscrita, as our plant, as we have mentioned 

 already, is denominated Queen's perfume. Variety j3 in Nipal ; 

 Simla, Thomson ; Qxlikim, Jos. Hooker ; Kasia, Hooker, Thomson, 

 and Griffith ; Hills in or near Assam, Mrs. Mack and Griffith ; 

 Dindygul, Wight; Concau, Law; Ceylon, Walker: Tavoy and 

 Mergui, Griffith and Gomez ; Malacca, Blame ; Cochiu-China? 

 Finlayson; y Kasia, Hooker and Thomson; 8 Nipal ; Sikkim, 

 Hooker ; e Province of Bantam in Java, Blume ; ^ Province of 

 Cheriban, Java, Idem. 



Roxburgh observes very justly in his Flora Indica, that H. 

 coronarium is a most charming plant, throwing out a profusion of 

 large, beautiful, and fragrant flowers during many months of the 

 year; that is, throughout the rainy season. This remark applies 

 more or less to the whole genus, the plurality of its members 

 being exceedingly handsome and sweetly perfumed ; some to a 

 still greater degree even than our present species. What I be- 

 lieve to be the type of the species, having almost pure-white 

 flowers, with a pale yellow tinge towards the throat, does not grow 

 wild in Nipal; at least I never found it there; but it is much 

 cultivated in the gardens of Bengal, where it is a common prac- 

 tice to pull out the flowers from the spike as they open in 

 succession, which they will continue doing for weeks together, 

 and putting them in water or wearing them as ornaments. 



2. H. flavum ; foliis oblongis glabris, bracteis ovatis, tubo corolla 



plus dimidio exserto, laciniis exterioribus anguste linearibus, 



iiiterioribus oblongis cuneatis, stamine labellum subrhoraboi- 



deum bilobum acutiusculum subaequante vel paullo superante. 



H. flavum, Boxh. Fl. Lul. i. p. 8. Wall. Cat. Herb. n. 0542. 



Bat. Cab. vh. t. 004. Bosc.Mon. PI. n. 4S. Bot. Mar/, t. 3039. 



Wild on the Kasia Mountains, Boxhurgh. 



As far as I know, this is a good species, and entirely confined 



to the range named above ; nor have I seen it vary. It is smaller 



than H. coronarium : the flowers decidedly so. The filament is 



mostly a little shorter than the lip, sometimes slightly longer. 



The specific name correctly indicates the colour of the flower. 



3. H. elliptimtm ; foliis ellipticis, spica fastigiata, bracteis laxiuscule 



imbricantibus, corolljE tubo dimidio exserto, limbi interioris. 



