49 ALPINIA COSTATA. 
Flowers numerous, large, red, fragrant. 
Bractes: exterior, one under each flower, lanceolate, ribbed, 
smooth, pale yellowish pink ; itertor or inferior perianth 
tubular, length of the proper perianth. 
Calyx superior, length of the tube of the corol, tubular, with 
- $-toothed, coloured apex. 
Corol. Tube cylindric, long and slender ; segments of the border 
linear-oblong, obtuse. zp with pretty broad cordate base, 
from thence taper to its entire obtuse point, greatly longer 
than the segments of the exterior border, margins curled. 
Filament, anther, germ, style, stigma, and nectarial bodies as in the 
genus. ; 
Capsules pretty long-pedicelled, ovate-oblong, while fresh above 
an inch and a half long, and nearly one in diameter, 3-celled, 
somewhat 3-lobed, each angle marked with a longer vertical 
rib, and two smaller on the sides, between the large ones. 
Seeds numerous, obovate, a groove on one side. Integuments 2 3 
exterior soft, and while fresh, it may be called the succulent 
aril: zntercor white, firmer, and rugose. 
Albumen conform to the seed, white and friable, perforated by a 
spongy brown substance above the embryo. 
Vitellus somewhat hyaline, and rises on each side of the perforation 
like two horns. 
Embryo subclavate, its small end lodged at the umbilicus. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
The form of the capsules (which is not unlike Gertner’s Zingiber 
Ensal) and the acrid aromatic taste of the seed, induces me to 
believe it to be the plant which furnishes the Middle Cardamom, or 
Cardamomum medium of our writers on the materia medica, 
253. ZINGIBER LIGULATUM Roxs. 
Leaves approximate, sessile, lanceolate. Spikes lax, more than 
half hid in the earth, obovate. Bractes cuneiform. Lip subhastate. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A native of Hindustan. Flowering time, in the Botanic Garden 
at Calcutta, the rainy season, 
DESCRIPTION. 
Root jointed, running horizontal, at some depth under the surface 
of the earth, and furnished with long fleshy fibres from the 
joints; from these joints shoots spring, and by them the 
plant is readily propagated. 
Stems about two feet high, bending considerably to one side. 
Leaves alternate, approximate, bifarious, sessile on their sheaths, 
from cordate below, to lanceolate toward the top of the 
plant; both sides smooth, and marked with parallel veins, 
the under a paler green; length from three to twelve 
inches, and about four broad. 
Sheaths smooth ; from the mouth of each rises a remarkably large 
long strap, or ligula, which, by the growth of the plant, 
becomes bifid, and by age scariose. 
Spikes radical, half hid in the earth, oblong, loosely imbricated 
with cuneiform, pink coloured, one-flowered, exterior scales, 
or bractes; and the same number of inner, colourless, 
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tridentate, shorter bractes, or they may be called inferior 
perianths. 
Calyx superior, one-leaved, spathiform, about half the length of 
the tube of the corol, irregularly tridentate. 
Corol. Tube slender, the length of the exterior scales of the 
spike, incurved. 
linear, acute, smooth, reddish divisions. 
Exterior border of three, nearly equal, 
Inner (Nectary 
Linn,), oblong, obtuse, margins much curled; two expand- 
ing, more or less acute, lobes, at the very base ; colour, a 
pale yellow. 
Filament short, below the two-lobed Anther linear, above it ends 
in a long, taper, curved, grooved beak. 
Germ oval, villous, three-celled, each contains many ovula, 
attached to a central receptacle. Style very slender, and as 
long as to elevate the funnel-shaped ciliate stigma even with 
the apex of the filament. 
Nectarial scales long and slender, embracing the base of the style 
within the bottom of the tube of the corol. ; 
Capsule ovate, size of a large olive, three-sided, 3-celled, 3-valved, 
opening from the apex down the angles, inside of the cells 
crimson. Cortex leathery, striated, pale dull yellowish straw 
colour. 
Seeds many, oval, blackish brown, a little rugose, arilled. Aril 
white, nearly complete, and ragged at the upper end. 
Albumen conform to the seed, cinereous. 
Embryo cylindric, central, nearly as long as the perisperm. 
MILLINGTONIA  Roxs.* 
DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER SAPINDI. Juss. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx 3-leaved, (and calycled). Corol 3-petalled, a nectarial scale 
on the inside of each. Germ superior, 2-celled, cells 2-seeded. 
Drupe with one or two-celled, 2-valved nut. 
Embryo curved, and folded, with little or no perisperm, and 
curved inferior radicle. 
Seed solitary, 
254. MILLINGTONIA SIMPLICIFOLIA Roxs. 
Leaves alternate, simple, broad-lanceolar. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A large tree, a native of Silhet, where it is called Daunt-runggee 
by the natives ; the timber is used for various purposes. Flowers 
in February and March ; seed ripe in July and August. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, broad-lanceolar, and taper most toward 
the base, entire, very remotely subserrate, rather acuminate, 
* Having found it necessary to deprive our countryman, the late Sir Thomas Millington’s 
memory of the genus assigned thereunto by the younger Linnzus (Suppl. p. 45, and 291) 
because on finding the ripe seed vessel of the only species thereof, it proves, as I long 
suspected, to be a real Bignonia ; | have restored that respectable name to the system, 
under a different dress, by giving it to the two trees, at present, constituting this strongly 
marked family, which, I am inclined to think, has not, until now, been described. 
