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HEDYCHIUM spicatum. 
Spiked Garland-flower. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA — Nat. Ord. SCITAMINEM, SrowM.— CANNiE, Juts. 
Gen. Char. — Corolla tubo longo gracili, limbo duplice utroque tripartite, in- 
teriore resupinato. Capsula trilocularis, trivalvis. Semina numerosa, aril- 
lata. Embryo simplex, perispermo vitelloque instructus. — Roxh. in Ft. 
Ind. 
Hedychium spicatum; floribus laxe spicatis, spathis obtusis unifloris, sta- 
raine labelli limbo rotundato emarginato breviore. 
Hedychium spicatum. Smith, in Rees' Cycl — Bot. Mag. t. 2300. 
Stem of the plant which flowered in our stove between 3 and 4 feet high. 
Leaves a foot or more in length, distichous, lanceolate, glabrous and dark 
green above, pubescent and paler beneath, slightly waved, with a central 
rib and several parallel oblique nerves, their bases furnished with long 
sheaths, and having an ovate, concave ligule, where the sheath joins on 
to the blade of the leaf 
Spike of flowers terminal, from 6 inches to a foot in length, composed of many 
oblongo-ovate circumvolute, large, green bracteas, within each of which 
is always a single fragrant flower, having two delicate inner bracteas, en- 
veloping its base, and reaching a little above the outer bractea. Cwolla 
with a long slender tube, slightly curved, and of a yellowish dingy brown 
colour. Limb in two portions, nearly equal in length; outer one of 3 nar- 
row linear segments, an inch or an inch and a half long, at first erect then 
patent, and twisted, dirty white. Inner portion of the limb pure white, 
of 3 very unequal segments, of these two are linear-spathulate and spread- 
ing, the third a lip, having a short unguis or claw, and a very large or- 
biculate waved subcarinated emarginate lamina or border. Filament much 
shorter than the labellum, incorporated with the tube, thickish, grooved 
for the reception of the style and between the lobes of the oblong, yel- 
lowish 2-celled, and, at the base, 2-lobed Anther. Germen obtusely trian- 
gular, green, glabrous, 3-celled; ofvules attached to the centre. Style 
very long, protruded just beyond the Anther, and having at the base, on 
one side, two cylindrical upright orange-coloured glands, (abortive sta- 
mens }). Stigma funnel-shaped, depressed in the centre, green, beauti- 
fully fringed at its margin. 
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