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HEDYCHIUM angustifolium, 
Red Garland-flower, 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNI4, 
Nat. ord. Cannm. Jussieu gen. 62. 
Sciraminex. Brown prod, 303, ‘ 
HEDYCHIUM. Anthera duplex. Filam. (lineare) geniculatum, 
extra antheram non elongatum. Stylus filamento duplo longior filiformis, 
tenacissimus, in sylco anthera receptus, Roscoe in Trans, lin, soc. 8, 
342. 
H, angustifolium, spica sexfariim decussata patentissima @ fasciculis 
subtrifloris verticillato-ternis: labello didymo. 
Hedychium angustifolium. Roxb. coram. 3. t. 251. 
Hedvchium coccineum. Smith in Rees’s cyclop. in loco. - 
Rhizoma carnasum, perenne, subtuberoso-incrassatum, stoloniferum. Caules 
erectt, simplices, inflorescentia tenis vaginati petiolis fistulosis foliorum. Folia 
bifaria, patentia, decrescentia ; petioli zntzs trans pedem lamine membrana 
tenut semivaginante ovato-rolunda ochreati; laminge ad maximum pedales v. 
artim longiores, unciam late, ovato-lanceolate, longé attenuate, aristato- 
cuspidate, nervis rectis parallelis ascendentibus costa media utringue eductis 
conferté striate. Inflor. terminalis, composita, spicata, stricta, cylindracea, & 
‘asciculis numerosis rard quadrifloris, vie excedens folia ; rachis robusta, ri- 
gida, virens. Spatharum foliola arcté invicém amplexa, exteriora herbacea, 
calyct @qualia, interigra membranosa, flores distinguentia. Flores sessiles, 
subbiunciales, miniati, udorati. Germ. hirsutum, Cal. superus, membranosus, 
tubulosus, subdiaphanus, 3 partes uncia longus, corollam infra arctd vaginans, 
breve et obtusé 3-dentatus, hinc longitis dehiscens, eatus rare pubescens. Cor, 
1-pet. tubulosa, resupinata, nitens ; tubus teres, uncialis, paulo penna passerina 
crassior; limbus duplex, exterior 3-partitus, tantillim longior tubo, laciniis 
eequalibus, flaccidis, angusté ligulatis, involutis, acutis ; interior Geet, 
Jirmior, difformis, bilabiatus, laciniis lateralibus 2 subbrevioribus lanceolato-line+ 
aribus infra attenuatis, media (labello) ¢nsidente ungui longo lineari, lamina lata 
obcordato-biloba lobis elliptico-ablongis obtusis, supra dive 
reentibys. ‘Trunculi 
thalamei 2, lutez, connati, teretiusculi in gummo germine. Fil. in tubi ore posi~ 
tum, feré duplo longius labello, crassiusculum, inclinato-porrectum, canalicu- 
tum, corolla concolor, pariim attenuatum. Anth. coccinea, linearis, bast sub- 
sagittata, vic t nartem uncie longa, ex loculis 2 linearibus marginalibus, pro 
tribus suis partibus adnatis filamento. Stylus vir filo bombacyno crassio 
et ‘ eat Ad ’, 
parim altior stamine. Stig. exiguum, viride, triquetro-infundibuliforme. 
The fine natural order of plants to which the present 
belongs, has been lately illustrated by Mr. Roscoe, the 
accomplished historian of the Medici, Of this genus, 
however, only one species, well known in our collections 
by the specific name of coronarium, had fallen under his 
observation, No other had been recorded until four were: 
added by Sir James E. Smith, in Rees’s Cyclopedia, from 
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