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cent. The writer lias seen only one specimen of H. maxhnum and 

 that a cultivated one. Its native country is unknown. 



Two species wliicli are closely related to H. coronarinvi and 

 whicli in common with it have the filament and anther together 

 shorter than the lip must now be considered. Both have yellow 

 flowers which are smaller than those of H, coTonarium, The first, 

 H, urophyllum, Lodd., Bot. Cab,, t. 1785, 1831, has frequently 

 been reduced either to H. coronarium or to H. fiavum or kept as a 

 variety of one of these species, but in accordance with our present 

 knowledge it seems best to consider it a distinct species specially 

 characterised by having all the parts of the corolla and androecium 

 deep yellow in colour, the lip entire or with only a slightly bilobed 

 or undulating margin, and a stout filament which with the anther 

 is distinctly shorter than the lip. The only flowering specimens 

 of this plant at Kew are from Khasia, 900-1200 m. There is an 

 excellent figure in the Botanical Magazine, t. 3039, under the 

 name //. flavum, Roxb., from which plant, however, it is quite 

 distinct, having larger flowers and a relatively shorter calyx. 



The second species, H\ Ehvesii, is also known only from the 

 Khasia Hills district, where it has been collected by H. J- Elwes 

 and C. B. Clarke and figured by Sir J. D.' Hooker. It was described 

 by J, G. Baker in the Flora of British India, vi., p. 226, 1892, and 

 has the following distinguishing features : flowers' bright yellow; 

 lip broad and distinctly two-lobed; filament slender, of a bright 



led colour. 



HedychiuTn flavescenSj Carey ex Roscoo, PL MoHandr., t. 50, is 

 a distinct species with the following important characters : flowers 

 large, up to 14 cm, long, yellowish, the colour deeper in the basal 

 portion; calyx nearly half as long as the corolla-tube; lip obovate- 

 orbicular, bilobed, narrowed below to form a distinct claw; fila- 

 ment with the anther slightly longer than the lip- Apparently 

 wild specimens of this plant are preserved at Kew from India and 

 the Mascarenes, and it is often found in cultivation. Besides the 

 accurate figure in Hoscoe's work that in Wallich's Icones, 

 t. 2008-9, may be mentioned. 



Hedychium chrysoleucuniy Hook., figured and described in Bot. 

 Mag., t. 4516, is probably only a form of H. flavescens, with the 

 base of the lip and lateral staminoides a deep orango-yellow. This 

 form is also figured in Lindley and Paxton, Plower Garden, 



p. 110, t. 77. 



We have now to deal with two plants concerning which there 

 has been an unfortunate confusion. The Hixiae H edy ch iutu flavum 

 was first applied by Roxburgh in the Hortus' Bengalensis. p. 1, 

 1814, to a plant called by the natives Kattea-tilook-seer, and said 

 to have been collected in Silhet by Mr. M. R. Smith in 1810. There 

 is at Kew one of Roxburgh's drawings. No. 2153, named H. 

 flavum, R., and this, on the whole, agrees with the description 

 published in Roxburgh's Flora Indica, 1., p. 81, 1820, which was 

 edited by W. Carey with the assistance of Wallich, but here the 

 native name is given as Kattia-rityam. In the manuscript 

 editions of Roxburgh's Flora Indica at Kew and the British 

 Museum Catteah-tilluk-see and Catt^ek-tilluk-seer are given as the 

 vernacular names of H. flavum. Whatever Carey and Wallich 



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