Tas. 5763. 
KAEMPFERIA Partsutt. 
Mr. Parish’s Kempferia. 
Nat. Ord. Sorramine®.—Monanprra Mownoeynta. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 5600.) 
Kamprerta Parishii; caudice tuberoso, radicibus passim tuberiferis, 
scapis preecocibus paucifloris,vaginis inferioribus brevibus late oblongis 
acutis fusco-reticulatis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis basi 
acutis costa valida, ovario piloso, perianthio externo spathaceo apice 
2-caudiculato, petalis 8 exterioribus anguste linearibus apice subulato- 
tereti acuminatis albis, interiorum 2 superioribus oblongis apiculatis 
albis, inferiore bilobo lobis obovato-cordatis purpureis, anthere con- 
morose Superne in laminam apice fissam dilatato, staminodiis filifor- 
mibus. 
This is another of the Rev. C. Parish’s valuable contribu- 
tions to the Royal Gardens; it is a native of the dense forests 
of Moalmayne, whence seeds were sent home which flowered 
in a stove in July of last year. Like its allies of the genus, 
the flowers appear long before the leaves, after the full 
development of which latter, the whole plant goes to rest. 
As a species it closely approaches K. diversifolia, Link (K. 
ovalifolia, Roscoe, Monand. Plants, t. 95), but differs in the 
short, oblong, appressed, reticulate lower sheaths of the 
flowering scape, and in the two lower inner perianth-segments 
not being appendaged in the sinus. ae 
Descr. A glabrous herb. Root stout, tuberous, emitting 
many stout cylindric fibres as thick as a small quill, that 
bear at intervals oblong tubers the size of a nut. Leafing 
stems one inch in diameter at the base. Leaves six to nine 
inches long, pale green, not glaucous, oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate, waved, pale below, with a very stout midrib and 
prominent diverging nerves; petiole short, half to one inch 
MAROH Ist, 1869. 
