ZINGIBER CAPITATUM. 
MONANDRIA MON OGYNIA. 
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SECT. Il. SCITAMINER. 
Gey. Cuar.—Anther double ; filament extending beyond the anther in an awl-shaped, grooved beak, embracing 
the style. 
Sprc. Crar.—Spike terminal, long, linear, imbricate, fastigiate; leaves linear-lanceolate-acute, sheathing the stem; 
flowers large, yellow. 
Zingiber capitatum. Flor. Indica, vol. i. p- 54. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Root composed of numerous tubers, surrounding, and dependant from, the central bulb, of a watery 
consistence and insipid taste ; stems erect, round, enveloped in the sheaths of the leaves, three feet high; leaves 
alternate, linear-lanceolate, smooth, and bright green on the upper surface, villous and glaucous below; spike 
terminal, sessile, linear-oblong, closely imbricated, fastigiate ; outer bractes inferior, linear-lanceolate-acute, somewhat 
concave, green, margin membranous, slightly tinged with rose colour at the apex, smooth ; inner bracte membranous, 
sheathing the tube of the corolla, greenish, pellucid, slightly villous at the apex; calyx superior, inflated, sub-trifid, 
slightly hairy, sheathing the tube of the corolla half its length ; corolla tubular; outer limb in three segments, one, 
erect, the others equal, linear, extending below and supporting the lip; inner limb in three lobes, the two lateral 
ones equal, oblong-ovate, expanding; the central lobe or lip broad-ovate, slightly emarginate ; the whole corolla a 
bright yellow; filament extending beyond the anther in a grooved beak; anther double; style filiform, rising 
from the germen between two long slender processes, following the course of the filament, and terminating a little 
beyond the beak, in a cup-shaped stigma, germen ovate, villous; mature spike conical, imbricate, red ;. capsules oval, 
three-celled ; seeds numerous, black, imbedded in a white aril. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
The present figure is given from a drawing by a native artist, brought into this country by the Right Hon. 
the Earl of Mountnorris, and by his permission engraved for the present work. The living plant is also in the 
Botanic Garden at Liverpool, having been sent from the banks of the Hoogly, in Bengal, by Mr. Brocager, in the 
year 1822, and flowered there the 9th August 1823; but on comparing the specimen with the present drawing, it 
appeared that the representation could not be improved, and the dissections of the flower only were added. We are 
informed, in Flor. Ind. that “ this plant is a native of the forests of Rohilcund, and that from thence Colonel 
Thomas Hardwicke sent plants to the Botanic Garden (at Calcutta) under the vernacular name Junglee Adruk: ; 
that it flowers there during the rains, and the seeds ripen in September and October.” Row. Flor. Ind. vol. i. 0 OS, 
REFERENCES. 
1. Outer bracte. 
2. Inner bracte. 
3. Intire flower. 
4, Germen and calyx. 
. Anther and awl-shaped beak. 
or 
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. Germen and processes, style and stigma. 
