Kenpferia.] CXLIX, SOITAMINEX. (J.G. Baker.) 219 
Sugeen. I. Sincorus, Horan. Stemless. Leaves contemporary with 
the flowers, Spikes central, radical. Lip usually bifid. 
* Anther crest 2-lobed, 2-fid, or toothed, 
l. X. Galanga, Linn. Sp. Pl. 3; Hort. Cliff. V. 3; leaves sub- 
orbicular subsessile, corolla-segments lanceolate, staminodes obovate- 
cuneate white, lip white with a lilac throat deeply bitid, anther-crest 
uadrate, lobes two rounded. Rose. in Trans. Linn. Soc. viii. 351; Kcit. 
Lt. 99; Roxb, in Asiat. Res. xi. 327; Hort. Beng. 1; Fl. Ind. i. 15; 
Wall. Cat. 6581; Wight. Ic. t. 899; Grah. Cat. Pl. Bomb. 208 ; Dalz. & 
Gibs. Bomb, Fl. 274; Horan. Prodr. 21. K. sessilis, Kænig in Retz. Obs. 
m. 67. K. humilis, Salisb. Prodr. 6. K. plantaginifolia, Salisb. in Trans. 
Hort. Soc. i. 986. Alpinia sessilis, Kænig in Retz. Obs. iii. 62.— Rumph. 
Amboin. v. t. 69, fig. 2. Rheede Malab. xi. t. 41. 
In the plains throughout British Inp1a.—DisrR1B, Malay isles. . 
colstock tuberous; root-fibres cylindric. Leaves 3-6 in. long, spreading flat 
on the ground, tip deltoid, thin, deep green, 10—12-ribbed, margin not thickened 
nor coloured ; petiole short, channelled. Flowers 6-12, fugitive, sweet-scented, 
opening successively ; bracts lanceolate, green, small. Calyx as long as the bract. 
?rolla-tube 1 in. ; segments 4 in. ; staminodes 3 in. long and broad; lip 1 in. broad, 
Wel below the middle, lobes obtuse; anther-crest small, with two shallow obtuse 
, Var, K. LATIFOLIA, Donn. Hort. Cant. ed. vi. p. 3; lip spotted at the throat 
with brown, K, Galanga, Willd., Enum. i. 3; Bot. Mag. t. 850. 
2. K. marginata, Carey in Rosc. Scit. PL t. 93; leaves orbicular sub“ 
sessile edged with brown, corolla-segments lanceolate, staminodes lilac 
jurat, lip lilac cut deeply into two orbicular lobes, anther crest bifid. 
"on, Prodr, 21, 
Burma, Car ey; TENASSERIM, Parish 
fir Root fibres oblong. Leaves spread flat on the ground, 4-6 in. long and broad, 
reg in texture than in K. Galanga, tinged reddish-brown beneath, and with a 
breng? brown margin. Flowers few in a sessile central cluster; bracts and calyx 
ew e l in, ‘Corolla-tube 1 in.; segments as long, white. Staminodes as long as 
id pe segments ; lip 1 in., lobes 4 in. broad, overlapping ; anther-crest deeply 
ps, bes bidentate.— Nearly allied to K. Galanga. An allied plant with purple 
terion Sent by Dr. King from Quedah in the Malay Peninsula, is probably a distinct 
t be E. angustifolia, Roscoe in Trans. Linn. Soc. viii. 951 ; Scit. Pl. 
d lone we ascending lanceolate, corolla-segments long linear, staminodes 
R ong white, lip lilac deeply cut into two obovate lobes, anther-crest bifid. 
a, A Arat. Res. xi, 328; Hort. Beng. 1; Fl. Ind.i. 17; Hed. Lil. t. 
ata Zoran. Prodr. 21. K, Roxburghiana, Schult, Mant. i.33. K. undu- 
& Link. ; Teysm. and Binnen. in Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 598. 
[int of the Eastern Himatayas. BENGAL, Rorburgh.—DistR1B. Malay isles, 
et ootstock tuberous; root-fibres slender or cylindric. Leaves many, Së by l in. 
small, sessile, ascending, lanceolate. Flowers few in a central sessile spike d rac s 
very 7 atya 1 ID, Corolla-tube white, twice as long as the calyx ; segments ; in., 
bi on, white, reflexing ; staminodes erect, i-iin.; lip reflexes, By 3 in 
big, ut ha Way down; lobes suborbicular; anther-crest quadrate, sha y 
l 4. R Ovalifol i. 19; Corom. PI. 
7 ia, Rorb. Hort. Beng.1; Fl. Ind. i. 19; 
3 78; Caves oblong’ distinctly "betioled, spike sessile, corolla-segments 
