Cl. 4.] ORCIIIDK.R. 81 



the Plumula, in like manner, appears, nor is that of 

 some of the Palm? very different from the last. 



The known genera of these true 8dtamine& are 

 Hedychium, Jllphtia, Plcllenia of WilUlenow and 

 Brown, Zingiber, Corfu*, Kcempferia, Roscoea Sm. 

 Exot. Bot. t. 108, Amomnm, Curcuma, Globba, fig. 1. 

 and Elettaria Ma ton TV. of Linn. Soc. v. 10. 254. 

 These are hardly found without the tropics. 



The puzzling genus Philydrum, Curt. Mag. t. 783, 

 once referred to the Scitamiriea', is better placed by 

 Mr. Broun in the Junn, with Burmannia. 



Ord. 21. ORCHIDE.E, fig. 70-72. " Calyx superior, 

 often coloured, in 6 deep segments, 5 of which are 

 superior, the 6'th inferior, Nectary of Linnanis, most- 

 ly larger and dissimilar. Style 1, ascending, often 

 connected with the upper lip at its base, sometimes 

 very short, or scarcely any. Stigma dilated, not en- 

 tirely terminal, but clapped as it were to the front of 

 the Style. Anther 1, proceeding from the top of the 

 Style under the Stigma, of two separate cells, often 

 remote from each other ; sometimes sessile and close- 

 ly adhering to the two sides of the Style, sometimes 

 supported by their own short filaments ; each of 2 

 valves, and containing a glutinous mass of Pollen. 

 Capsule of one cell, with 3 keeled angles, and 3 valves, 

 bursting between the usually permanent keels. Seeds 

 numerous, in general chaffy, inserted into receptacles 

 attached to the middle of each valve. Root fibrous, 

 usually with 2 knobs, each of which is either undi- 



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