18 DR. WALLICH 



Wild in Nipal, growing everywhere both on hills and valle^-s ; 

 Kamoon ; Chalk Rocks of Mussooree, lioyle and Thomson ; the 

 Suen range in 30° N.L., at an elevation of — 7000 feet. Boyle ; 

 Sikkim, at 5000 feet, Hooker; Kasia, Hooker, Thomson, and 

 Cathcart. The varieties are seemingly found in all these places 

 indifferently. 



This is tlie commonest Hedychium in Nipal, where it blossoms 

 during six months of the year. The flowers are white ; in var. 

 y yellowish, with orange claw and stamen. ^ was originally 

 introduced into the Calcutta Garden in 1817, by the Hon. E. 

 Gardner, and afterwards observed by me in the great valley of 

 Nipal, but sparingly. 



6. H. veniistum ; foliis lanceolatis, spica nutante, bracteis subcon- 



^volutis unifloris, laciniis limbi linearibus, labello lanceolato 

 acute bifido stamen superante, capsulis villosis. 



H. venustum, Wight Ic. vi. p. 17. t. 2012. 



H. cernuum, Wight, ibid, t 2011. 



Wild in Coorg? Wight; Nilgerries, Id. and Haniayne. 



The authority of Dr. Wight as a systematic botanist is far too 

 grave to be easily set aside on any occasion ; but on the present I 

 venture to differ from ray friend, by uniting his two species into 

 one. I place comparatively little value on the form of leaves or 

 petioles in this genus ; and the floral leaf is often seen long- 

 petioled, in cases even, where they are ordinarily almost sessile. 

 The perfectly drooping spike is characteristic, as also, as far as I 

 know, the villous capsules. I believe I had the species very 

 many years ago, from Archdeacon Hawtayne, and it was entered 

 into the Calcutta Garden catalogue for H. acuminatum. I 

 omitted to take notice of the particular direction of the spike. 



7. H. viUosum. ; foliis lanceolatis breviter petiolatis, spica elongata 



densiflora, bracteis 1—3-floris, calyce tuboque dimidio exserto 



villosis, laciniis limbi linearibus labelloque oblongo bilobo 



stamine dimidio brevioribus, anthera minuta sagittata. 



H. villosum. Wall, in Ro.rh. Fl. Ind. i. p. 12. Rose. I. c. n. 56. 



Wild in Nipal ; Kasia, Old Collectors, and besides, Griffith, 



Hooker, and Thomson; Hills in Assam, Mrs. Mack. 



The very minute sagittate anthers is a permanent character, 

 which at once distinguishes the species from all others. The 

 spike is long and cylindric; or oval, with flowers altogether 

 larger. This latter state is well represented in Eoscoe s figure ; 



