

PLATE DLV. 



ZINGIBER CLIFFORD!^. 



Cliffbrdian Zingiber. 





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CLASS I. ORDER I. 



MONJNORIA MONOGYNIJ. One Chive* One Pointal 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



altx monophyllus. Corolla 4 — 5-fida. An- 



therae 2. Filamentum simplex ultra an- 

 theras productum. 



Empalement of one leaf. Blossom either 4- or 

 5-cleft. Anthers two. Filament simple,, 

 extended beyond the anthers. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Zingiber scapo simplicissimo, crasso, breri, 

 capitulo subovato, bracteis inferioribus lato- 

 ovatis obtusis ; corolla 4-fida, laciniis tri- 

 bus exterioribus oblongis marginibus invo- 

 lutis j alteris sub-cordatis duplo majoribus, 

 mox convolutis. 



Ginger with an unbranched, thick, short flower- 

 stalk, the lower flower-scales broadly- oval 

 and blunt: the blossom, 4-cleft, the three 

 outer divisions oblong with their margins 

 turned inwards, the inner inversely nearly 

 heart-shaped and doubly larger, soon folding 

 together.. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . Sheath at the base of the calyx. 



2. A detached flower. 



3. Seed- bud, anthers, and pointal, summit magnified 

 4- The plant in miniature. 



This fine species of Ginger, we are informed, is a native of Guinea, and in the gardens has lon^ been 



pposed to be the plant which produced 



naeus 3 but it certainly by no means accords with the character of that plant, either as given in the 

 Hortus Kewensis or by Linnaeus himself. From the other species of Zingiber enumerated in the eighth 

 volume of the Linnzean Society's Transactions it is easily distinguished Having as yet only blossomed 

 in England in the collection of Lady de Clifford at Paddington, in honour of that patroness and lover 

 of botany we have given its specific designation. The culture is the same as for other plants of the 

 Ginger family. Our •drawing \ taken in 1801. 



