<^26 ; DESCRIPTION OF 



With Retzius and Jussieu, I was long inclined to consider this a 

 species of Kcsmpferia, They agree in being herbaceous ; in the long, 

 slender tube of their corollas, in both the borders being three-parted,- 

 with all the segments exceedingly alike ; and lastly in the stru6lure, and' 

 contents of their germs. 



In the following particulars they disagree, Hedychium being caules- 

 cent, with terminal inflorescence ; whereas in KcBfnpferia, all the species 

 (known to me,) are stemless, with radical leaves, and spike. In the 

 former, the interior border of the corolla is resupine, (that is, the large 

 bifid lobe is uppermost, the two smaller under it, having the filament 

 between, with the two polliniferous grooves of the double anther on the 

 upper side, fronting the broad, two-lobed lip ;) and lastly, in having a crest- 

 less anther. For these weightier reasons, I am now induced to consider 

 it a distin6l genus. The inverted position of the stamen, and inner border 

 of the eorolb, seem fully as cogent as the nakedness of the anther, 



4. KiEMPPERIA, 



Gen. Char. Corolla with long slender tube^ and both borders three-parted. 

 Anther double, surmounted with a two=lobed crest. Capsule S-celled, many- 

 seeded. 



This genus, as it now stands, is neat, and natural. The plants that 

 compose it are all natives of India. They have all tuberous, biennial 

 roots; no stem; their leaves radical, and herbaceous; this inflorescence a 

 lateral, radical 5/>/^^ in rotunda; in the other three central ( that is, rising: 

 in the centre of the leaves.) The superior calyx is subcyhndric, with', 

 contracted , unequally divided mouth. The tube of the corolla remarkably 

 long, and slender; the lower segment of the inner border, answering ta 

 the Lip J or Jfectary, is large, two-lobed, and more highly coloured thai-s 



