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Tas. 6054. 
KAIMPFERIA rorunpa. 
Native of the East Indies. 
Nat. Ord. Sciraminez#.—Tribe Zrvzipera. 
Genus Kamprertia, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen., p. 228). 
Karreria rotunda, radicibus tuberiferis, scapis precocibus, vaginis latis 
acutis viridibus v. luride purpureis, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis acutis disco 
saturate viridi ceterum colore pallidiore irrovatis subtus fusco-purpureis, 
ovario glabro, perianthio exteriore spathaceo, petalis 3 exterioribus 
anguste loriformibus albis interiores excedentibus, interiorum 2 supe- 
riorum late oblongis apiculatis fere albis, inferiore 2-lobo lobis 
orbiculato-oblongis apiculatis purpureis, anther connectivo superne in 
laminam 2-fidam polymorpham fisso. 
Kampreria rotunda, Linn. Flor, Zeylan., p. 9; Tab. nost., 920. Roscoe 
Scitam. Pl., t. 97. Wight Ic. Pl. Ind. Or., t. 2029. Flore des Serres, 
vol. x t= 1044 
K. longa, Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr., t. 317. Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, vol. xv. 317, 
t. 20, f. 5-8. Redouté Lil., vol. i. t. 49. 
Matan Kua, Rheede Hort. Mal., pt. xi. p. 17, t. 9. 
At first sight, on comparing this with the early figure of 
K. rotunda (Tab. 920), it would appear to be a very different 
plant, and its close accordance with Jacquin’s fine figure of 
C. longa, led at once to its reference to that species. After, 
however, a careful comparison with the excellent dissected 
specimen of K. rotunda in the Kew Herbarium, and the 
numerous published plates of that plant, including the above 
cited very indifferent one published nearly seventy years 
ago in this Magazine, I cannot but regard K. longa as a 
well cultivated form, of rotunda, which, as in the case of the 
specimen here figured, produced its flowers in April, and its 
leaves at about midsummer. This opinion is, indeed, ex- 
pressed by Sims (see Tab. 920), who, notwithstanding that 
his figure bears no great resemblance to Jacquin’s, perti- 
nently says, “ Upon what ground Jacquin considers his K. 
longa as a different species I cannot conjecture. 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1873. 
