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HEDYCHIUM spicatum. 
Spiked Garland-flower. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nar. Orv. SCITAMINER, Brown.—C ANNE, Juss. 
Gen. Cuar.—Corolla tubo longo gracili, limbo duplice utroque tripartito, in- 
teriore resupinato. Capsula trilocularis, trivalvis. Semina numerosa, aril- 
lata. Embryo simplex, perispermo vitelloque instructus—Rorb. in Fl. 
Ind. 
Hedychium spicatum; floribus laxe spicatis, spathis obtusis unifloris, sta- 
mine labelli limbo rotundato emarginate breviore. 
Hedychium spicatum, Surru, in Rees’ Cycl—Bot. Mag. t. 2300. 
Stem of the plant which flowered in our stove between 3 and 4 feet high. © 
afoot or more in length, distichous, lanceolate, glabrous and dark 
green above, pubescent and paler beneath, slightly waved, with a central 
rib and several parallel oblique nerves, their bases furnished with long 
sheaths, and having an ovate, concave ligule, where the sheath joins on 
to the blade of the leaf. 
Spike of flowers terminal, from 6 inches to a foot in length, composed of many 
oblongo-ovate circumvolute, large, green bracteas, within each of which 
is always a single fragrant flower, having two delicate inner bracteas, 
veloping its base, and reaching a little above the outer bractea. Corolla 
of 3 very unequal segments, of these two are linear-spathulate and sp 
ing, the third a lip, having a short unguis or claw, and a very large or- 
biculate waved subcarinated emarginate lamina or border. Filament much 
shorter than the labellum, incorporated with the tube, thickish, grooved 
for the reception of the style and between the lobes of the oblong, yel- 
lowish 2-celled, and, at the base, 2-lobed Anther. _Germen obtusely trian- 
gular, green, glabrous, $-celled ; ovules attached to the centre. Siyle 
one side, two cyli upright (abortive sta- 
mens?). Stigma funnel-shaped, depressed in the centre, green, 
y fringed at its margin. 
