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HEDYCHIUM heteromallum. 
Colvill’s Garland-flower. _ 
me aL 
Le 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CANN. Jussieu gen. 62. 
SCITAMINER. Brown prod. 1. 305. 
HEDYCHIUM, Supra vol. 7. fol. 526. 
Hi. heteromallum, foliis supra nudis subtds pube longa mollissima sericeis, 
spica sparsa multiplici conica, fasciculis subbifloris subimbricato-dis- 
tantibus divergentibus, ungue lineari laminz 2 partite lobis dimidiato- 
ellipticis subbreyiore, filamento corollam plurimim superante. _ 
Fol. superiora elliptico-lanceolata, acumine subtili spirali precocins 
emarcescente, supra glabra subtis pilis longis mollissimis sericea. Spica co-- 
nica, subtriuncialis? sparsa, multiflora, laxé imbricata, fasciculis subbifloris 
patulis. Bractez tring, una communis herbacea subsericea. Flores albi, 
thus incensum remissivs redolentes. Cor. 6-fida: tubus chloroleucus, cylin- 
dricus ; limbus exterior tubo equalis, chloroleucus, lacintis 3 tenuioribus flac- 
cescentibus, angustis, lanceolato-linearibus, involuto-concavis, glabris, subina- 
qualibus, aristula arescente prejixis ; interior candidior firmior diuturnior bila- 
biato-expansus, laciniis lateralibus planis ligulatis obtusis muticis extertoris 
angustioribus: labelli unguis lamind firmior et subbrevior linearis canalicu- 
latis, Jamina obovato-oblonga bipartita ochroleuca, lobis dimidiate oblongis 
hine apice oblique subacutatis. Filam. corolld plurimum longius. — Anth. 
biloba lutescens, linearis, basi sagittata. Stigma virens cyathiforme, orifi- 
cio obliquatum hirsutum ceterum glabrum: germ. villosum; corpuscula 
nectarea-2 collaterali-contigua, cylindrica, oblonga, lutea, tubo floris mul- 
totiés breviora, — ‘ nig Spee Ge 
ry 
Drawn from a plant of the Calcutta Garden, which 
flowered this summer at Mr. Colvill’s. Bae 
We think it may not be without use to subjoin in Eng- 
lish the full and elaborate character in Latin by which the 
SCITAMINE# are distinguished by Mr. Brown, and. by which 
they are detached from the Canne&. bia 
~ Calyx and Corolla superior, tubular: the former the 
shortest of the wo with a shallow 3-lobed orifice; (it seems 
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doubtful whether this is to be considered an accessory or a 
constituent part of the flower). Limb of the corolla two- 
fold: outer tripartite with nearly even segments, or with a 
front one different from the others, and not unfrequently 
reversed so as to be the one at the back: inner tripartite, 
_ unlike the outer, with the middle sezment (label) inserted 
between the outer lateral segments and often 2-3-lobed, - 
larger than its own side-segments, which are sometimes 
diminished to the appearance of small teeth, or even quite 
obliterated, Stamen a single one, inserted within the edges 
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