HEDYCHIUM FLAVUM. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
SECT. II. SCITAMINES. 
Grn. Cuar.—Anther double, embracing the style; filament attached at the apex to the back of the anther ; 
capsule three-celled ; seeds numerous, arilled. 
Spec. Cuar.—Spike capitate, imbricate; filament the length of the lip; lip broad, deeply divided into two ovate 
lobes; leaves lanceolate-acute, terminating in a marcescent point, smooth above and downy below. 
Syv.—Hedychium flavum. Wallich in Flor. Ind. vol. I. p. 81. 
Curt. Bot. Mag. No. 2378. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Roots perennial, tuberous, running horizontally near the surface of the earth; stem simple, herbaceous, 
rufescent towards the base; leaves alternate, lanceolate-acute, with a long narrow twisted point, smooth on the 
upper surface, and villous beneath ; sessile on their sheathing base, with a stipula or ocrea 1—2 inches long, deeply 
notched, and covered with soft brown hairs; spike terminal, simple, 5—6 inches long, compact, imbricated ; common 
bractes coriaceous, oblong-ovate, finely ciliated towards the apex, 3—4 flowers in each ; inner bractes membranaceous, 
notched at the apex, striated, one to each flower; calyx sheathing the tube of the corolla half its length; the apex 
trifid, downy ; tube of the corolla upwards, of two inches long; outer limb of three linear segments, equal, narrow, 
reflexed ; inner limb in three segments, two of them equal, opposite, elliptic-ovate ; the third, or lip, larger, broad- 
ovate, deeply divided into two obtuse lobes; filament the length of the lip, grooved, embracing the style; anther 
double ; style supported by two short blunt germinal processes, and embraced by the filament and anther, beyond 
which it projects with a funnel-shaped stigma, finely ciliated; germen a downy capsule, three-celled; seeds 
numerous, arilled; the flower is intirely yellow, and has a scent delightfully fragrant, resembling the jonquil. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A native of Silhet; sent, in 1818, by Dr. Carry, from Serampore, to the Botanic Garden, in Liverpool, 
where it flowered on the 22nd October, 1820. 
REFERENCES. 
. Inner bracte. 
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. Outer bracte. 
 Germen, with its processes, style, and stigma. 
Ss Co WO 
. Intire flower. 
