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KiEMPFERIA elegans. Tab. 27- 



Caulescens, basi repens, radice simplici, fibrosa; Mis oblongis, dlmidiato-cordatis, petlolatis ; spica terminall 

 basi involuta spatha nervosa ; lacinils corolte interioribiis obovatis ; crista filamenti subrotunda, indivisa, revoluta. 

 Frequens in sylvis Pegu et Martabanise, vigens et florens tempore pluvioso. 



Planta pedalis, subcsespitosa. Radix constans fibris simplicibus, carnosis, fuscescentibus, teretibus. Tubera nulla. Caulis erectus, 

 digitum minimum ferfe crassus, leviter complanatus, glaber, constans vaginis petiolorum paucis, subbifariis, pallidis, striatis, apice obtusfe 

 bidentata solutis ; e basi emittens caules aliquot annotinos, inferiore parte repentes. Folia oblongo-ovata, acuta, leviter undulata, sub- 

 plicata, basi obliqufe et subdimidiato-cordata, erectiuscula, suprk saturate viridia, subtus glauca, costa crassa, pilosum, oblique et tenuiter 

 nervosa, 6-polIicaria. Petioli crassiusculi, canaliculati, pubescentes, 1— 4-pollicares, basi vaginantes. Spica terminalis, solitaria, 

 erecta, 4-pollicaris, gracilis, pauciflora, cylindrica, vix medium folii summi attingens, suffulta peduncido gracili, filiformi, vaginis caulis 

 involuto, supern^ libero, poUicesque duos longo. Bractea exterior spathacea, foliacea, viridis, floras miernh amplecteps, conyoluta in 

 cylindrum pennam anserinam ferfe crassum, e basi parum attenuatum, 2i-pollicarem, lineis elevatis, parallelis, copiosis, striisque inter has 

 transversis, brevibus, fuscis ornatum ; apice expansa in laminam patulam, lanceolatam, acutam. Flores 4 vel 5, rhaclii brevi, occulta; 

 inserti, altemi, singuli suffulti bracted tenui, membranacea, lanceolata, acuta, spatha breviore. Calyx cylindricus, sursiim parJim ampliatus, 

 tubo corolte dimidi^ brevior, glaber, ad medium obliqufe fissus, hinc attenuato-ligulatus, apice 3-denticulatus. Corolla tubus gracilis, 

 filiformis, pallidus, 3-pollicaris, basi cum calyce spatha occultus, supernfe exsertus et liber. Limbus duplici serie 3-partitus ; exterioris 

 lacinice pallida, albicantes, membranaceee, lanceolatse, acuminatse, fere poUicares, patentes, supreme subreflexa ; interior plano-paten- 

 tissimus, supr^ purpureus, subtus albicans : lacinice superiores obovatse, Isevissimfe retusa;, limbo exteriore reflexo partim breviores ; 

 inferior sive labellum illis dupl6 majus, profundi 2-partitum in lobos semiovato-rhomboideos, obtusos, marginibus interioribus rectis et 

 parallelis, laciniis limbi exterioris vix breviores. Filamentum membranaceum, brevissimum, fauci infra laciniis superioribus limbi inte- 

 rioris insertum, purpureum, antice concavum et gerens antheras 2 oblongas, 2-loculares, apice lata coronatum cristd magna, indivisa, 

 rotundata, revoluta. Ovarium pubescens, ovatum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma clavato-complanatum, ciliatum, carnosum, filamenti basi 

 involutum, apice vix exsertum. 



This very beautiful plant is a native of the kingdom of Pegu and of Martaban. I found it growing abundantly in 

 the thickets about Rangoon and near Amherst and Moalmyne. Like all other East Indian scitamineous plants, it is 

 in full vigour during the rains, dying down to the root soon after their cessation. It is totally different from the 

 species noticed by Dr. Roxburgh in his Flora Indica, and belongs to the section, which I have long ago indicated 

 in that work (vol. i. p. 20) as differing from the other in the caulescent habit, absence of tubers, and entire crest. 

 The two other species of that section, Kcempferia secunda and linearis, I have repeatedly received in a growing state 

 from the Pundua mountains, bordering on Sillet ; but I have never been able to keep them alive in the Botanic 

 Garden at Calcutta. All three ought perhaps to be removed from K(smpferia, and formed into a distinct genus, 

 for which I would propose the name oi Monolophus, in allusion to the entire crest of the anther. 



The flowers of our species expand successively, and are of a beautiful purple colour on the upper surface, and 

 white below. The outer bract or spatha is elegantly nerved, and marked with numerous short, transverse, brown 

 stripes. No part of the plant possesses any remarkable aromatic smell or taste. 



Plate XXVII. Fig. 1. Spike with the spatha opened. 2. Calyx and corolla; tube of the latter opened. 3. Stamen and pistil, 

 the corolla being cut away from the place where the filament is decurrent on the inside of its tube. 



JUSTICIA GUTTATA. Tab. 28. 



Caule subsimplici, erecto ; foliis oblongis, utrinque attenuato-acutis, subcrenulatis, breve petiolatis, leevibus ; 

 racemo terminali; floribus fasciculatis ; dentibus calycinis bracteisque linearibus ; labio corollse superiore recto, 

 bilobo, lateribus reflexo ; laciniis labii inferioris ovatis, obtusis, patentibus ; antheris nudis, carnosis, erectis, demum 

 divaricatis, loculis anticis, parallelis, gracilibus. 



Incolit montes Pundua, Bengalae orientali confines, florens initio anni. In horto botanico Calcuttce floret mensibus 

 Decembre et Januario. 



Nomen Khasianum : Beeja. 



Planta glabra, fraticosa, erecta, pedalis, 2-pedalis. Radix gracilis, ramoso-fibrosa. Caulis obsoletissim^ 4-angularis, pennam scrip- 

 toriam crassus, supra foliorum insertionem ventricoso-intumescens, supern^ fuscescens, sajpissim^ simplex, nunc ramulo uno alterove brevi, 

 gracili. Folia patentia, oblonga, utrinque attenuata, brevfe acuminata, obsolete et distanter crenulata, basi acuta, interstitiis bis terve 



