MONANDROUS PLANTS, S45 



7. ZINGIBER. 



<JGen. CiiAR. Corolla with interior border unilabiate. ^wi/i^r double, crowned 

 with a single (horn-shaped,) curved beak. CrtjpsMZe 3-ceiled, 3-valved. Seeds 

 ms,ny, arilled. 



The plants, which fall under the above essential character, further differ 

 from the Amomums in being herbaceous : (whereas in that genus they 

 are all, at. least biennial.) Their inflorescence uniformly radical, or ter- 

 ininal spikes : compadly(') or openly (^^ imbricated with one-flowered 

 bradles. To render the specific chara6ters of the different species more 

 concise, I have, arranged those with radical spikes in one se6fionj and 

 those with terminal in a second. 



Sect. 1. S-pikes radical. 



.1. ..ZiNGijjER officinale. Roscoe in Trans, of Linn. Soc. 8. 348. 



Xeaves Hnear-lanceolate. Spikes compact, strobiliforra, elevated, Bractes 

 acute. Lip 3-Iobed. 



Common Ginger. 



Amomuni Zingiber. Lifin. sp. pi. ed. Willd. \. 6. 



Ischi. Rhced. tnal. 11. f. 12. 



Zingiber majus. Eumph. amb, 5. /. 66. /. 1. 



Ada, or Adrac of the Hindus, and Bengalese. 



A PLANT too well known, to require any further descriptioii. 



ZINGIBER OFFICINALE. 



Inschi. RnEED. Alea, RuMPir. 



Sans, A'rdraca, A rdra, S'nngavera. ' 



Hind. Adrac, Adarac, A da, A'd. 



Beng. and Or. Ada. 



Tirh. A'd. 



(1) As in officinale, ^erumbet, Cassumunar, and the two ^vith terminal spikes. 



(2) As in squarrosum, roseu/rij rubens, and ligulattim. 



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