HEDYCHIUM FLAVESCENS. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
SECT. II. SCITAMINES. 
Gey. Cuar.—Anther double, naked, attached on the back to the apex of the filament; filament grooved, 
embracing the style. 
Sprc. Crar.—Spike terminal, capitate, imbricate, lower bractes broad, flat, obtuse, ciliated at the apex; upper 
bractes cylindrical, 2—3 flowered ; filament scarcely the length of the lip; lip broad, bilobate ; 
leaves villous beneath. 
Hedychium flavescens. Carey. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Roots tuberous, spreading horizontally, with long stringy fibres; stem herbaceous, erect, 6-8 feet high, 
rubescent for a few inches at the base, compressed, slightly villous; leaves alternate, sessile, long-lanceolate, 
marcescent at the point, pale green, smooth on the upper surface, villous below, with a long ligulated pallid 
ocrea; spike terminal, erect, compact, imbricated, lower bractes ovate, obtuse, flat, ciliated at the apex ; upper 
bractes cylindrical, 2-3 florous; calyx tubular, half the length of the tube of the corolla, villous; tube of corolla 
3—4 inches long; outer limb in three equal, narrow, reflexed segments, yellow; inner limb in three segments, 
flavescent, the two lateral ones equal, broad, ovate, obtuse ; lip large, broad, two-lobed ; filament about the length 
of the lip, erect, grooved, embracing the style; anther large, double ; style filiform, supported at the base by two 
blunt processes; stigma cup-shaped, margin ciliated, extending beyond the anther; germen villous, three-celled, 
flowers delightfully fragrant. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
This fine and very distinct species seems to hold a middle rank between Coronarium and Flavum. It was sent 
by Dr. Carxy, from Serampore, to the Botanic Garden in Liverpool, in 1821, and flowered there in October 1822. 
Another plant flowered about a month earlier in the same year, in Lord Milton’s Conservatory, Wentworth House, 
Yorkshire. 
REFERENCES. 
1. Outer bracte. 
2. Inner bracte. 
3. Calyx and ccrolla intire. 
4, Filament, anther, and stigma. 
5. Germen, style, and processes at the base. 
