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: | MONANDRIA MONOGYNd. 
ii Ry Bieontch ‘ean gen. 62; PM erttachees 
ScrraMINER. Brown prod. 1. 305 pias CANNEIS, > 
HED YCHIDM. «gle vol. 7. ee: af Sco 
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H. anibisstagsings spica numerosa_sparsa Atotruiscale lato-patente, fasci- 
culis Plurifloris ? distantibus, bracteis flores arcté involventibus tubo per- 
brevioribus ;_ laciniis duabus_ interioribus cuneato-spathulatis. cacumine 
‘ovato obtuso;- labelli lamina obovata. bifida lobis dimidiatis obtusiusculis 
divergentibus, ungue »brevi. canaliculato ; filamento iciscolorin ‘corollam 
superante. » 
Hedychium see eas im bors iverpoot 
ead “ if” 
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The drawing of *this Sindh plant, was taken in a hot- 
house belonging to Mr. Hatfield, at the Alp’ ha Cottages. We 
were told, that it had attained the height of about four feet ; 
but had no portunity of seeing any part of the” plant. 
The ert ic, AAR PT been derived from the an- 
nexed figure ; “and as far as we can judge consists in the 
scattered numerous, somewhat oblong, broadly spreading 
spike; several flowered distantly removed fascicles; bractes 
much shorter than the tube, and enveloping the flowers 
closely; two cuneately spatulate inner segments, with ovate 
obtuse terminations; a labellum with an obovate two-cleft 
lamina, the lobes of which are halved, diverging, and ob- 
tuse; a short channelled unguis; and a filament longer than 
the corolla, and of a different colour. But the most strik- 
ing distinction from all the species known to us seems to 
be the great breadth of the inflorescence. 
The plant has been only lately received in this country 
from the Calcutta garden; where we hear it was introduced 
by Mr. Gardner, the East India Company’s resident at the 
seat of the Nepal government. 
Of this genus our gardens, till of late years, contained 
but one species, H. coronarium; and, indeed, until the ap- 
pearance of the oe Indica, that was the only one record- 
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