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HEDYCHIUM elatum. 
Comtesse de Vandes Garland-flower. 
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MONANDRIA AONOGYNIA. 
Nat..ord. CANN®. Jussieu gen. 62. 
SciTaMINER. Brown prod. 1. 305. 
HEDYCHIUM. Corolle tubo longo gracili; limbo utroque tripartito, 
interiore resupinato:, Anthera duplex, nuda. Capsula 3-locularis, 3-valyis: 
semina numerosa, arillata. Embryo simplex, ct perispermo et vitello dotatus. 
Roxb. fl. ind. 9; (¢ textt angl.) 
te tre ap, 
H. elatum, foliis -oblongo-lanceolatis glabris, spicis laxis: fasciculis ternis 
~subtrifloris, Jaciniis interioribus limbi cuneato-linearibus, Jabelli lamin’ 
bifida. Brown MSS. 
Caulis 8-10-pedalis. Folia inferiora elliptico-lanceolata, superiora ob- 
longo-lanceolata, omnia acumine subulato-jiliformi citits marcescentt.. Spica 
6-uncialis: fasciculis distinctis, sepissime ternis, patentibus, trifloris. Ova- 
rium (germen) villosum. Perianthium exterius (calyx) spathaceum scariosum 
pubescens: interius (corolla) tubo cylindraceo ochroleuco, limbo exteriore 
tripartito lacintis angusto-linearibus acutis, interiore lactniis lateralibus 
cuneato-linearibus apice parm dilatato obliquo: labellum ungue. brevi lato- 
lineari, lamina circumscriptione ovata lobis dimidiato-ovatis obtusiusculis. 
Filamentum labello longius. Antheree linearis basi bifida lobis polliniferis. 
Stigma cyathiforme indivisum ciliatum. Nectaria (stamina sterilia) 2, bre- 
vissima, teretiuscula, approximata. Brown MSS, 
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An unrecorded species, determined ‘and described by 
Mr. Brown from native samples in the Banksian Museum, 
of which that. gentleman is now, fortunately for science, in 
the well-earned possession. The samples formed part of a 
collection of Nepaulese plants transmitted by Dr. Wallich, 
the able superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, by 
whom, as was plain from the inscribed notice, they had 
been taken for speciosum, accurately deseribed by himself 
in the Flora Indica of Roxburgh; but on examination by 
Mr. Brown, proved to be essentially distinct from that 
species. 
In speciosum the spike is much longer, the fascicles scat- 
tered and 2-flowered, and the label of the flower entire and 
sharp-pointed, in elatum the spike is much shorter, the fas- 
cicles in verticilli (whorls) of three, and 3-flowered, and the 
label bifid with bluntish lobes. 
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