HEDYCHIUM CARNEUM. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Se 
SECT. II. SCITAMINES. 
naked, attached at the bac 
embracing the style. 
Gey. Cuar.—Anther double, k to the apex of the filament; filament long, grooved, 
Srrc. Cuar.—Spike inclined, open, regular; flowers growing by threes, and alternating into six rows; lower lip 
two-lobed, papilonaceous ; lateral segments broad-elliptic ; leaves lanceolate; rachis hirsute. 
Syy.—Hedychium carneum. Loddiges, Bot. Cab. 7. 693. 
Hedychium carneum, spica ovato-oblonga, aperta, bracteis patentibus, ovatis, subconvolutis, 2-3 floris; limbi 
interioris laciniis cuneatis ; labello bilobo, infundibuliformi, plicato ; ungue brevi; filamento 
longissimo ; foliis subtus vaginisque villosis, sub-bifariis. Wallich, in MS. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Roots thick, fleshy ; tubers running near the surface, with long fibres ; stem erect, 5—6 feet high, smooth, 
pale green; leaves bifarious, alternate, lanceolate, sessile, dark green above, paler and scattered with fine 
hairs on the margin and mid-rib below, terminating at the base on the stem with a closely adhering pallid 
or slightly coloured villous stipule or ocrea, about an inch in length ; spike terminal, somewhat inclined ; 
rachis triangular, villous; fascicles of flowers growing by threes, and alternating so as to form six upright 
rows or lines; outer bractes inferior, lanceolate, villous, involute in a tubular form, as long as the tube of 
the corolla, each containing two flowers; inner bracte smaller and membranaceous;_ calyx superior, sheathing 
the tube of the corolla; apex obliquely bifid, villous; outer limb of corolla in three equal segments, narrow, 
linear, irregularly diverging, tortuose; inner limb in three segments, the two lateral segments equal, expanding, 
of an elliptic shape; the lower segment or lip on a channelled claw, expanding into two distinct irregularly 
sub-ovate, papilonaceous lobes; flowers flesh colour; filament twice the length of the lip, slender, grooved, 
scarlet; anther double, attached by the back to the apex of the filament, embracing the style; style very 
slender, supported at the base by two blunt yellow germinal processes; stigma concave, ciliated at the margin ; 
germen villous; capsule ovate, three-celled, many-seeded ;_ seeds globular, scarlet, arilled. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Although we cannot intirely agree with Dr. Wallich, that “the present plant is not to be specifically 
distinguished from HH. elatum,” yet we have no doubt of his accuracy when he informs us, that “ it varies 
exceedingly, according to elevation, soil and culture,” having ourselves observed a plant which flowered in the 
Botanic Garden at Liverpool, in the summer of 1826, and which varied from the present with flowers of a chalky 
white, and a crimson spot in the centre, as well as in some other particulars; but which we did not think sufficiently 
distinct to add to the numerous specimens already given. The present plant is more nearly related to angustifolium 
and longifolium than to elatum, from both of which it differs in the peculiar appearance of its more scanty 
spike of flowers, and in its somewhat broader lanceolate leaf. a 
The present drawing was made from a plant received in 1822 at the Botanic Garden in Liverpool, from 
Mr. Joseph Cooper, Lord Milton’s Botanic Gardener at Wentworth House, which flowered in September 1823, and 
perfected its seed. one 
1. Germen and calyx. 
2, Intire flower. 
3. Outer bracte. 
4. Inner bracte. 
3. Germen, style with its processes and stigma. 
6. Seed, with its aril. 
7. Capsule. 
8. Ditto, opened. 
