work under the name of Hedychium Flavescens ; unless it should be thought that this plant is a hybrid between 
Hedychium flavum and H. coronarium. The last mentioned plant has been long cultivated in this country, and 
was the only species known of the genus, and also the only one cited by Dr. Roxburgh, in his Dissertation on 
_ Monandrian Plants, in Asiat. Res. published in 1810. But since that time, the species discovered have been so 
numerous, as to constitute one of the most extensive genera of Scitaminean Plants, as the present work will 
sufficiently show. Jor these numerous and beautiful additions, we are chiefly indebted to Dr. Carey, of Serampore, 
and Dr. Wallich, of Calcutta, who have enriched the Botanic Garden at Liverpool with the greater portion of the 
plants of this genus here figured, and the latter of whom has furnished the author with a specific description of 
several other species now cultivated in the Botanic Garden at Calcutta. _ 
This plant, like the rest of the genus, is peculiar to the more temperate climates of India, and has not, I 
believe, been found in its native state in any other quarter of the world. I have been told that it is grown for 
the beauty and fragrance of its flowers, in some of the islands in the West Indies, under the name of Myrosma 
Cannecfolia—a very different plant, which is now indisputably ascertained to be a Phrynium. 
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