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 ALPINIA TUBULATA. Demerara ALPINIA. 
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Class and Order. | 
Monanpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
_ Anthera duplex. Filam. extra antheram non elonga- 
tum, Stylus longitudine filamenti, in sulco anthere recep- 
tus. Stgma obsolete trigonum. Caps. carnosa.” 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Avrrnta tubulata; seapo radicali laterali, bracteis sca- 
. riosis corollam tubulosam subequantibus, labello 
incluso. 
_ Atpinia tubulata; foliis alterne bifariis remotissimis ; scapo 
vaginato laterali bracteis communibus divaricatis ari- 
dis acuminatis persistentibus ; corolla tubulosa ; labello 
incluso ; anthera sessili. Bot. Reg. 777. 
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Mr. Davi Don, who examined this plant very particu- 
larly, considers it clearly to belong to the genus Apinia ; 
Otherwise from theradical inflorescence and tubular corolla, 
with a nectarium or labellum so small as not to be at all ex- 
Serted,'we should scarcely have conceived it to belong to the 
same genus as Atpinia nutans, and the other species with 
Which we are acquainted ; but we had no opportunity of 
examining the structure of the flower; and if we had, we 
‘Should hardly have had confidence enough in our observati- 
ons to have opposed our opinion to that of so good a botanist, 
having had ourselves so little opportunity of studying the 
‘hatural order of Scitaminee. We may remark, however, 
that in Dr. Roxguren’s Flora Indica there is a section of 
the species of Alpinia, all having radical scapes, and that , 
the first botanists do not consider the difference of a cau- 
line or radical infloresence as sufficient to constitute a 
SUnction of genus. Thi 
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