ed in the general systems. Five others have appeared in 
Dr. Roxburgh’s work; one, if not two, in Curtis’s Botan- 
ical Magazine; and two have been published in the Botan- 
ical Register; besides those which may have been recorded 
by Sir James Smith in Rees’s Cyclopedia, the volumes of 
which we happen at this moment not to have at hand to 
refer to. The genus is said to be daily increasing in our 
collections; and the major part of it to be derived from 
Nepal and the adjacent countries, the most copious sources 
of its various species. _ 
The following is the array of the species known to us. 
Hedychium spicatum. Curtis’s magaz. tab. 2800. 
‘Hedychium coronarium, Curtis's magaz. 708. 
Hedychium heteromallum. Supra tab. 767. 
Hedychium flavum. Curtis’s magaz. tab. 2378; (vix tamen Wallichii in 
Jjlor. ind. 1. 81.) ‘ : 
Hedychium coccineum. Smith in Rees’s cyclop. in loco. 
Hedychium angustifolium. Supra tab. 157. « 
Hedychium gracile. Roxb. flor. ind. 1. 12. 
Hedychium villosum. Wallich in flor. ind. 1. 12. 
Hedychium speciosum. Wallich in flor. ind. 1. 18. 
Hedychium elatum. Supra tab. 526, 
Hedychium gardnerianum. In loco presenti. i 
The list may be expected to be considerably longer in 
the proposed work by Mr. Roscoe. — d 
The inflorescence is represented in our plate of the na- 
tural size. The foliage in the annexed engraving greatly 
diminished. = - 
‘ 
ORRIGENDUM. 
In folio 766 of the last fasciculus, in the third line of the specific charac- 
ter of BRoMELIA melanantha, by a slip in writing, the word “ calyce” has 
been used, instead of ‘ germine.” _ 
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