MONOCOTYLEDONES. 121 



Var. e major. 



ft. Leaf a flowering scape. 



Ant. Prov., Ceylon ; March, 1866 ; G. W. H. K. Thwaites. 



6. Leafy stem, with flower scape. 



Ayamalay, near Paiilaghaut j Sept., 1850; Ex Herb. 

 Wight; -22 June, 1859. 



563. Elettaria speciosa, Bl. : var. fructibus purpureis. 



a. Leaves. 



Tepees Bener, Java; S. Binnendyk ; received 1865. 

 [Seeds small, elliptical, angular, greyish black, nearly 

 tasteless.] 



554. [Globba Schomburgkii, Bot. Mag. (t. 6298)]. 



a. Flowering branch. 



Slam ; T. Christy, Jr. ; 1867. 



555. Hedychium Gardnerianum, Wall. (H. speciosum, Wall.) 



a. Inflorescence and dissected flower. 

 Cultivated specimen ; 1861 ; grown in England. 



b. Leaves and detatched seed. 



Seed large, greyish, almost plano-convex, mth a brownish 

 branched arillus. Flavoui- strongly aromatic, 

 resembling a mixture of ounmin and turpentine. 

 At the back of sheet b the following memorandum 

 occurs : 



"Tlie flowers are generally in twos, each two being surrounded by a 

 concave green bract. Within the bract is a tubercular transparent 

 sheath, and within this the two flowers, one of them surrounded at the 

 base by two smaller sheathing bracts of unequal size. Each flower has 

 a transparent sheath or tube growing from the upper part of the ovary 

 and embracing the tube of the perianth. From examination of the 

 recent flowers."- — D. H., 1866. 



556. Hedychium spicatum, Sm. 



ft. Slender rhizome and leaves. 



The plant is said to afford the rhizome sold as "Kapur 

 Kachri"; from near Swatow, China; 1872. [The 

 taste of the rhizome is very similar to that of the 

 drug.] 



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