PLATE DLV.
Z I N G I B E R CLTFFORDItE.
Cliff or dian Zingiber^
CLASS I. ORDER I.
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. One Chive. One Polntal.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX monophyllus. Corolla 4—5-fida. Antherae
2. Filamentum simplex ultra autlieras
productum.
SPECIFIC
ZINGIBER scapo simplicissimo, crasso, brevi,
capitulo subovato, bracteis inferioribus latoovatis
obtusis ; corolla 4-fidà, laciniis tribus
exterioribus oblongis marginibus invol
u t i s j alteris sub-cordatis duplo majoribus,
mox convolutis.
EMPALEMENT of one leaf. Blossom either 4 - o r
5-clefl:. Anthers two. Filament simplest
extended beyond the anthers.
CHARACTER.
GINGER with an unbranched, thick, shortfiowerstalk,
the lower flower-scales broadly-oval
and blunt: the blossom 4-cleft, the three
outer divisions oblong with tlieir marginsturned
inwards, the inner inversely nearly
heart-shaped and doubly larger, soon folding,
together.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. Sheath at the base of the calyx.
2 . A det-iched flower.
3. Seed-bud, anthers, and pointal, summit magnified^.
4 . The plant in miniature.
THIS fine species of Ginger, we are informed, is a native of Guinea, and in the gardens has long been,
supposed to be the plant which produced the Grains of Paradise, Amomum Granum Paradisi of I,innsens;
but it certainly by no means accords with the character of that plant, either as given in the
Hortus Kewensis or by Linna;us himself. From the other species of Zingiber enumerated in the eighth
volume of the Linnaean Society's Transactions it is easily distinguished. Having as yet only blossomed
in England in the collection of Lady de Clifford at Paddington, in honour of that patroness and lover
of botany we have given its specific designation. The culture is the same as for other plants of the
Ginger family. Our drawing was taken in 1804.
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