que connatus, filiformis, antheram per intervallum loculorum transeuns et 
. @quans, supra compressée subclavatum: stigma continuum breve, transversé 
dilatatum, bilamellosum lamellis parallelis bilabiato-conniventibus ciliatis 
viscosis; lamella antica concaviuscula ord integra rotundata, postica lunulato- 
excisa ex cornt, utroque anticum exsuperans, « dorso convexa et ad basin den- 
tibus 2 (filamentorum rudimentis 2 per stylum ascensis?) collateralibus 
acutis brevioribus stylum anguloso-decurrentibus appendiculata. 
Costus, according to Mr. Brown, may be known at 
once from its coordinate genera by the structure of the pe- 
tiolar sheath, which is continued beyond the insertion of the 
Jeaf in the form of an ocrea (sheathlike bracte); and spe- 
cially from the closely kindred Hextenias by the close- 
spiked inflorescence, and petalshaped filament which is 
broader and longer than the intramarginal anther. 
The subject of our drawing was sent us by Mr. Gowen, 
having flowered in Lord Caernaryon’s hothouse at High- 
clere; where it had been grown from seed obtained from 
Dr. Wallich of the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, and in- 
scribed “ a new species of Costus from Nepal.” We can 
discover no difference from the established spectosus, except 
the narrower foliage and fuller red of the bractes and calyx. 
The two may however be really distinct; though we do not 
think it expedient to separate them without a comparison 
of the two in the fresh state. 
The stigma.consists of two small shallowish transversely 
widened opposite /amine closing together like lips; the 
front one concave with a rounded entire border, the back 
one conyex with a border indented in the form of a crescent, 
the horns of which extend beyond the circumference 
of the front one; behind this at its base appear two short 
teethlike parallel upright pointed excrescences continued 
from their bases in a raised angle down the back of the style: 
these we take to be the rudiments of two filaments which 
have ascended the style in this way instead of keeping their 
station at the base, as is more usual in the order. 
The plant has been likewise raised by Messrs. Colvill, 
at Chelsea, from Nepal seed. 
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1. Calyx. 2. Back of the filament attached to the lower part of the inner 
limb of the corolla. 3. Front of the filament with the anther. 4, Style 
as inserted: in the faux of the corolla. 
