ZINGIBER ROSEUM. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
SECT. II. SCITAMINES. 
Guy, Cuar.—Anther double, filament extending beyond the anther in an awl-shaped beak, grooved, embracing 
the style. 
Spec. Cuar.—Spi i Fi : . 
PE HAR.—Spike lateral, radical, half immersed in the earth, ovate, imbricate; bractes broad-lanceolate-acute, 
crimson towards the apex ; outer limb of corolla lanceolate, crimson ; lip ovate, crenate, pale yellow. 
Syy.—Amomum roseum. Corom. Pl. ii. 126. 
Zingiber roseum. osc. in Lin. Tran. viii. 348. 
Zingiber roseum. Roah. Flor. Ind. i. 49. 
Zingiber roseum. Smith, in Rees’ New Cyclop. 
Zingiber roseum. Roemer & Schultes, i. 24. 
Zingiber roseum. Sprengel, i. 12. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Root tuberous, jointed, white, solid, with strong fibres; stem erect, from 3 to 4 feet high; leaves alternate, 
broad-lanceolate, smooth above and villous below; petioles very short, decurrent, sheathing the stem, and 
terminating above in a long stipule or ocrea, with an acute apex; spike radical, rising from the termination of the 
jointed root ; bractes closely imbricated, the lower ones ovate, with an acute apex, the upper ones lanceolate-acute ; 
inner bractes ovate, closely embracing the germen and tube of the corolla, trifid at the apex; calyx superior, 
tubular, membranaceous, somewhat inflated, bifid, half the length of the tube of the corolla; outer limb of corolla in 
three segments, lanceolate-acute, the upper one rather the largest, and nearly erect, the two lower ones deflexed, 
supporting the lip; tube of the corolla nearly two inches long, cylindrical, white; interior limb or lip ovate, 
slightly emarginate, or crenate, pale yellow, auriculated on each side by a blunt lobe of an orange colour; filament 
linear, erect, extending beyond the anther in a long subulate process, grooved, and embracing the style; style 
filiform, supported at the base by two subulate yellow processes, and extending a little beyond the apex of the 
filament; stigma a ciliated cup. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Of this species, which is a native of moist valleys in the interior of Bengal, Dr. Buchanan sent plants to 
the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where they blossom in August. Plants of it were received at the Liverpool 
Garden from Mr. Brockager at Hoogley, and Dr. Carey at Serampore, in 1822. From one of these which 
flowered in July 1824, the present drawing was taken. It does not appear, according to an observation in 
Flor. Ind. i. 50, that the natives make any use of this plant. 
REFERENCES. 
1. Lip. 
2, Outer bracte. 
3. Inner ditto. 
. Filament and anther. 
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. Germen, with processes, style and stigma. 
6. Calyx. 
7. Intire flower. 
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