Tap. 8237. 
ALPINIA Wacormiri. 
Eastern Himalaya. 
ScITAMINEAE. Tribe ZINGIBERACEAE. \ 
Aupinia, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 648; Petersen in Engl. 
& Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. vol. iii. pars vi. p. 23. ‘oe 
Alpinia bracteata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 2 (1811); F7. Ind. ed. Carey and Wall. 
i. p. 61 (1820); Baker in Hook.f. Fl. Brit, Ind. vol. vi. p. 255; K. Schum. in 
Engl. Pflanzenr. Zingib. p. 336; species A. nutanti, Rosc., affinis, racemo 
simplici, bracteolis viridibus differt. 
Herba perennis. Caulis erectus, 1-2 m. altus. Folia ad 60 cm. longa, 15 em. 
lata, ovato-oblonga, acuminata, superiora lanceolata, supra glabra, subtus 
tomentosa pallidiora, marginibus dense ciliatis; vagina circiter 20 cm. 
longa; ligula obtusa, glabra; petioli 2 cm. longi, alte canaliculati. Racemi 
terminales, erecti, simplices, 12-20 cm. longi; rhachis dense hirsuta; 
pedicelli breves, hirsuti; bracteae virides, ellipticae. Ca/yx campanulatus, 
unilateraliter fissus, 8 mm. longus. Corol/lae tubus infundibuliformis, 
8 mm. longus; lobi oblongi, 3°5 em. longi, 1°5 cm. lati, albi roseo tineti. 
Labellum corollae lobis paullo longius, ovatum, concavum, 4 cm. longum, 
2°5-3 cm. latum, extra dilute roseum, intus rubro-purpureum, prope 
apicem luteum, ad margines dilute roseum. Ji/amentum complanatum, 
pubescens; staminodia subulata, 4 mm. longa, Ovariwm subglobosum, 
dense sericeo-villosum.—A. Roxburyhii, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2, p. 493; 
Horan. Monogr. Scit. p. 34.—C. H. Wrieur. 
Alpinia bracteata belongs to a group of rather closely 
allied species, and most resembles A. nutans, Rose., which is 
readily distinguished by its more compound inflorescence, 
and A. Henryi, K. Schum., which has the indumentum on 
the rhachis more silky in texture. It must not be 
confounded with the species described as A. bracteata by 
Roscoe in the Transactions of the Linnean Society, vol. xi.” 
p. 281 (1815) “from a Chinese drawing belonging to the 
Right Hon. Lord Stanley, F.L.S.” which has been referred 
by Schumann both to A. alata, A. Dietr., and also, as Mr. 
Wright points out, to A. calearaia, Roxb. 
The plant from which the figure now given was made, 
was raised at Kew from seeds received from the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Calcutta, in 1882. It flowered at Kew for 
the first time in a tropical house in May, 1908. The species 
Fesruary, 1909, 
