MONANDROUS PLANTS; S2B 



numerous, ere 61, or oblique, according to their place in the clump; (for 

 they grow in tufts, many springing from the same root ; ) quite simple, 

 polished, deep green, jointed: lower joints considerably swelled ; general 

 height from 6 to 8 feet. Leaves bifarious,short-petioled on their sheaths, 

 lanceolate, polished, from 6 to i8 inches long. Inflorescence long, slender, 

 curved, dichotomous, terminal spikes. Flowers rather small, pure white^ 

 inodorous. Calyx, corolla, &c. as in the genus. 



3. PiiRYNiUM cfl-jizYfl/i^m, Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. J. 17. 

 Stemless. Leaves radical, 

 P.hyllodes placentaria. Loureir, Cachincji. 17. 

 Naru-kila. Rheed. vial. II. /. 34. 

 Cadali of the Bengalcsc, which also signifies a plantain. 



A NATiv,E of Bengal, and like the former species, thrives best in a wet 

 spil ; and flowers about the beginning of the rainy season. 



S. HEDYCHIUM. 



CrEN. Char. Corolla with long §lender tube; both borders three-parted ; inner 

 resupinate. Anther double, naked. Capsule 3-celled. 3-valved. Seeds nume- 

 rous, arilled. 

 J. Kedychium coronarium. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 1. 10, Curt. Bot, Mag. 

 708. Retz. obs. 3. 73. 



Qandsulium. Rumph. ajnb. 5. t. 69. f. 3. 



Gooruk-nadtah, also Dulala-champa of the Bcngalesc. 



I HAVE only seen this most beautiful plant in its cultivated state, though a 

 native of various parts of India; the Malay Archipelago, &c. It rises with 

 a^straight, herbaceous stem, furnished with alternate, bifarious, lanceolate 

 leaves ; and a terminal, oblong, compactly imbricated spike, of very large, 

 pure white, exquisitely fragrant y?oz£;^r5, which continue to expand in suc- 

 cession, during the greater part of the rainy season. 



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