ON THE GENUS HEDYCHIUM. 15 



and the Company's drawings, is that otliers may be able to refer 

 to and consult them if they wish it ; but I have not thought it at 

 all necessary to copy the names of collectors from the former. 



HEDYCHIUM. 

 A. Coronarid). Spica plus minus arete imbricata. 



1. H. coronarium ; foliis oblongo-ellipticis subtus pilosulis, brac- 

 teis ovatis, infimis aliquando apice foliaceo-expansis, tubo 

 corollae serai-exserto, laciniis interioribus lanceolatis vel ovatis, 

 labello latissimo subquadrato obtuse bilobo subsossili, stamen 

 pauUo superante. 

 H. coronarium, Koen. in, Retz. Obs. Fasc. iii. p. 73. Roxb. 

 in Asiat. Research, xi. p. 325. Ej. Fl. Lid. ed. Carey, i. p. 9. 

 Exot. Bot. ii. p. 95. t. 107. Bot. Mag xix. t. 708. Rose, in 

 Linn. Trans, viii. p. 343. t. 20. f. 6. Ej. Monandr. PL n. 51=^ 

 Wight, Icon. vi. p. 17. t. 2010. H. spicatum, Bot. Cab. vii. 

 t. 653. — Gandasulium, Rumph. Amh. v. p. 175. t. 69. f. 3. 

 /3. floribus lutescentibus. 

 H. Havescens, Carey apud Uosc he. cit. n. 50. Bot. Cab. viii. 

 t. 723. Wight, J. c. p. 17. t. 2008, 9. Bot. Mag. t. 2371 

 exclus. synon. 



H. chi-ysoleucum, Bot. Mag. t. 4516. Lindl. et Pa.rt. Flow. 

 Gard. i. p. 110, t. 77. 



H. coronarium, Bot. Cab. vi. t. 507. 



y. floribus intense luteis. 

 H. urophyllum, Bot. Cab. xviii. t. 1785. 



h. statura floribusque ma.ximis. 

 H. maximum, Rose. I. c. n. 52. 



e. foliis angustis, spicis abbreviatis, Bhime. 

 C foliis infra sericeis. Blame. 

 Wild in many parts of the East Indies in moist shady situ- 

 ations on mountains, or in rich grassy plains, and producing a 

 constant succession of fl.owers from May until October. Tlie 

 normal form, -with pure ■white flowers scarcely tinged yellow at 

 the centre, seems to belong exclusively to the Malay Archipelago, 

 and perhaps to the islands and countries still more to the east- 

 ward ; and is that which is most commonly found in tlie gardens 

 throughout Hindostan, being a great favourite with all classes of 



* As neither the pages nor the plates of Eoscoe's Monandrian Plant.s 

 are numbered, I give the numbers in the synoptical table prefixed to the 

 Wiirk, being from 47 to 63 inclusive, and belonging to seventeen species. 



