HEDYCHIUM GARDNERIANUM. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYN IA. 
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SECT. II. SCITAMINE®. 
Gey. Cuar.—Anther double, naked, attached at the back by a flexible ligament, to the apex of the filament; 
erect, grooved, embracing the style. 
Spec. Cuar.—Spike Open, regular; 
filament long, 
flowers alternating in six rows; bractes biflorous ; lip broad-ovate, bifid ; 
filament twice the length of the lip ; 
capsule three-celled ; seeds numerous, arilled. 
Syy.—Hedychium Gardnerianum, 
Mr. Garpyer’s Garland-flower. Bot. Register, No. 774. 
DESCRIPTION. 
perennial, running near the surface of the earth, and throwing out numerous long fibres ; 
stem simple, herbaceous, smooth, from six to eight feet high ; leaves alternate, 
Roots tuberous, 
bifarious, broad-lanceolate-acute, 
from eight to twelve inches long, smooth on both sides ; sheathing ending in an obtuse smooth stipule, 
or ocrea ; spike terminal, smooth, slightly declined at the base ; flowers alternating on the spike in six rows; 
common bractes ovate, smooth, biflorous ; inner bracte one to each flower, ovate, smooth, except a small tuft 
of hairs at the apex; calyx tubular, tribolate, slightly ciliated at the apex, sheathing the tube of the corolla 
nearly half its length; outer limb of the corolla in three segments, narrow, equal, linear, reflexed; inner 
limb in three segments, two of them equal, lanceolate; the third or lip broad-ovate, bifid at the apex ; filament 
erect, twice the length of the lip, grooved, embracing the style, and supporting the anther by a. flexible 
ligula inserted at the back, at about a third of the distance from its base; anther oblong, ovate, double, 
naked ; style long, linear, supported at the base by the germinal processes, and terminated with the concave 
stigma projecting beyond the anther, and beautifully ciliated; capsule three-celled, seeds numerous, arilled, 
dark red, aril scarlet. The flowers are of a pale yellow, or lemon-colour, strikingly contrasted with the 
scarlet filament, and have a powerful fragrance, resembling that of the jonquil. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Our first knowledge of this superb Plant, was derived from a fine dried specimen, the spike of which 
was eighteen inches long, sent by Dr. Wauzicu, from Calcutta, to which we had given the name of 
HI. excelsum; but having afterwards, (in September 1819,) received from the same liberal quarter, the living 
Plant, under the name of H. Gardnerianum, a name adopted by Dr. Wauiicn, in honour of Epwarp 
Garpyer, Esq. British Resident at the Court of Napal, and having since communicated it to other collections 
under that name, we now wish it to be confirmed. This plant, which Dr. Wauxicu justly denominates 
species omnium pulcherrima, flowered in the Botanic Garden at Liverpool, on the 4th October, 1820, and 
produced seeds, which have vegetated. 
REFERENCES. 
Calyx. 
The corolla intire. 
. Style and stigma. 
Common bracte. 
Proper bracte. 
Seed vessel. 
Ao ato Sm 
Capsule opened. 
. Seed arilled. 
. Seed naked. 
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