MONANDROUS PLANTS. Mf 



Tan Rheede, appear to have mistaken it for the Galangal, for thpy n^med it to }AmCalanj(ina, as 

 may be gathered from his text corrected by the Nagari characters in the plate. It is neither of those 

 Celebrated drugs; but bears more resemblance to the CassumUmr, which is ho\revcr the root of the 

 next species. Note by the President. 



3, ZiNGinER.' CassUmunar. Ili- 



Stems erect. Leaved sessile^ lineaif-Tanceolate. Spikes compact, strobill- 

 form, elevated, lanceolate, acute. Bfactes obovate, pointed. Lip 3-lobed, 



Bun-ada of the Hindus, and Bengalese', 



Car-^uspoo of the Tdingas.- 



A NATIVE of various parts of India: Flowering tiitte the rainy season. 

 Seed ripe in November. 



The root of this plant Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. CombeS think the 

 true Cassumunar of the shops. When fresh it possesses a strong, campho- 

 r^ceous odour, and warm, spicy, bitterish taste; when dried considerably 

 weaker, 



^IN&IBEK CASUMIJNAR; ^ 



From the Beng'afe name, as ascertained by Dr. Roxburgh, and which ia composed of words -of 

 Sanscrit origin^ a i'anjcnY name might, be inferred, Vunardrat;a sigmtymg wild ginger ; but I find 

 lio authority for it. This plant was brought to me for the Ditr-haldi, Which is the Ddrvicd of San- 

 strit authors, and noticed as an efficacious- drug jin'the writings of the Hindu physicians. 



I am at a loss to conjecture the origin of the nime by which the drug iS known in England. It 

 ■#as first introduced into practice by MAntoE, as a medicine ,of uacommon efficacy in hystcrick, epi. 

 leptick and paralytick disorders ; but is gone out of repute. Note by the Presidents 



4. ZiNGjBER. roseum'. Boscoe in Trans, of Linn. soc. 8. 348. 



Leaves aliort-petioled^ lanceolate. Spikes lax, half immersed ia. the eirth. 



Bractes lanceolate, coloured. Lip entire. 

 Amomum rosrum. Carom, pi. %. JVb. 1^6. 

 Buma catchicay of the Telingas. 



A NATIVE of the vallies amongst the mountains of the nort?hern Circarsy 

 where it blossoms during the rains. 



