the Botanic Garden in Calcutta, a few roots which I had 

 brought with me produced fresh leaves at the commence- 

 ment of the rainy season of 1827 ; and in July the plant 

 bore a succession of flowers. The leaves are extremely 

 beautiful, being marked on their upper surface with dark- 

 green and purple belts or spots, not very unlike the leaves 

 of Maranta zebrina : in form and decumbent posture they 

 resemble those of Kaempferia Galanga. 



** Besides this species, I have brought three others 

 with me from the Burma countries to Bengal, namely, one 

 from the Teak forests, on the Attran river, in Martaban 

 (K. Candida Wall.), and two from Pegu and Martaban 

 (K. Crawfurdiana and K. parviflora Wall.). I have dedi- 

 cated the species described above, and also a superb 

 Curcuma, with large igneous spikes, which I found in 

 Pegu and the Tenasserim coast, to my highly revered 

 friend William Roscoe, Esq. of Liverpool, whose splendid 

 Monography of the beautiful but most difficult tribe to 

 which both those plants belong, reflects new lustre upon 

 a name already immortalised in the annals of literature 

 and philanthropy." 



For the whole of the preceding very important informa- 

 tion, we have to express our acknowledgments to the 

 liberality of Dr. Wallich. This, and another article in 

 the present Number, will serve to convey some idea of 

 the minute attention which has been given to every part 

 of Indian Botany by our distinguished friend, and of what 

 may be expected from the splendid works, to the publica- 

 tion of which he is now devoting himself. 



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Our drawing was made in October last, in the Garden 

 of the Horticultural Society, from plants brought home by 

 Dr. Wallich ; but as the flowers did not expand perfectly, 

 the figure has been completed, by that gentleman's per- 

 mission, from an Indian drawing in his possession. It is 

 a tender and rather delicate stove plant, native of damp 

 shady rocks, upon the mountain Taong Dong, near Ava, 

 where it was found, in November 1826, at the elevation of 

 about a thousand feet. 



J. L.. 



