(1903) 
ALpIniA NuTANS: Larce Droopine ALPINIA. 
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Class and Order. 
Monanpria Monoeyrnia . 
_ Anthera duplex. Filam. extra antheram non elongatum. 
Stylus longitudine filamenti, in sulco anthers: receptus. 
Stigma obsolete trigonum. Caps. carnosa. eee ed 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
ALPInia nutans; nectario obsolete trilobato margine invo- — 
luto, foliis lanceolatis, capsula membranacea lanuginosa. 
Roscoe in Linn. Soc. Trans. 8. p. 346. Smith Exot. 
Bot. 2. p. 93. t. 106. 
Groza nutans. Persoon Syn. 1. p. 3. Redouté Liliac. 60. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. 1, 153. ? 
om sylvestris. Rumph. Amboyn. v. 6. p. 140. t. 62. et 
; : 
Reveaumia nutans. Bot. Repos. 360. Single plate, by Syd. 
Edwards. Wilid. Enum. p.3.— : 
biti Manet 3. 4. 18. 
Zerumpet speciosum. Wendl. 
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Linnzus having himself had very little opportunity of 
examining living plants of very few of the natural order of 
Scitaminez, left them established by such vague characters, 
that no Botanist has been able to arrange the several species 
since detected under his genera, which has induced the 
Sreatest confusion in the synonymy. Rerzius attempted to 
establish better defined genera from the descriptions of 
Kenie, but from the insufficiency of his materials could not 
be expected to be very successful. It was not till the publi- 
cation of Roscor’s Dissertation 1 the Scitaminee, in the 
Sth volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society, oa 
