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lax reddish, one-flowered bracts : flowers solitaiy, red and yellow : 

 interior bract linear, obtuse and notcLed at the apex: corolla 

 bright red. 



ITorthem Circars„ flowering during the rains. 



(S) Z. EUBENS. (Roxl.) 

 Ident. Koxb. 1. c. p. S3. 



Spec. Chab. Stems 2 — 4-feet: leaves sessile, lanceolate : ligula 

 large, membranaceous : spikes several, sub-obovate, fastigiate, 

 loosely imbricated with numerous straight, erect, linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, involute, red exterior bracts, inner bracts shorter, irregularly 

 34oothed: corolla tube long, slender, segments of the outer border 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, red : Up ovate? oblong, entire, speckled red 

 and yellow. 



Eungpore district, flowering in August. 



(9) Z, CAPiTAiTrM. (Roxb.) 



Idmt. Eosb. 1. c. p. 55. 



Spec. Chae. Stems erect, round, 2 — 3-feet : leaves narrow-lanceo- 

 late, acute, smooth above, slightly haiiy beneath : spike terminal, 

 BessUe on the mouth of tie sheaths of the upper leaves, linear- 

 oblong, somewhat cone-shaped : bracts in pairs, 1-flowered, permanent, 

 outer one lanceolate, concave, erect, longer than the corolla tube, 

 inner ovate, shorter, enveloping the ovary, calyx and nearly the 

 whole of the corolla : . lip of the corolla 3-lobed, middle lobe very 

 large, round, lateral ones expanding: anther with a very long 

 curved beak : flowers large, pure yellow. 



Eohilcund, flowering in the rains. 



(10) Z. EiATUM. (Roxb.) 



Jdent. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 57. 



Spec. Chab. Stems straight, 4 — 5-feet : leaves linear, recurved, 

 smooth above, softly hairy beneath : sheaths slightly hairy : spikes 

 terminal, solitary, narrow-lanceolate, compactly imbricated with 

 lanceolate 1-flowered bracts, the latter hairy outside: calyx 

 white, smooth, mouth unequally toothed : corolla bright yellow : 

 filaments with a long curved beak crowning the linear 2-lobed 

 anther. 



Interior of Bengal, flowering in July and August. 



