914 Mr. Roscoz's Remarks on Dr. Rosburgh's Description 
centre of the leaves; and Phrynium having no stem whatever, 
its inflorescence bursting from the petiole of the floral leaf. 
. With Retzius and Jussieu, Dr. Roxburgh was long induced to 
consider Hedychium as a species of Kempferia, but is now led to 
believe it a distinct genus; for which he has given additional 
reasons.to those which I had before adduced. Of this beautiful - 
genus only one species is known*, which has long been in this 
country, and of which there is a pea — in yee: Exotic 
Botany, tab. 107. 
To the-three species of Kiempferia already döserihei Dr. Risks 
burgh has added another, K. pandurata ; for which, he observes, 
he could almost wish to quote the Manja-Kua of Rheede, Hort. 
Mal. xi. tab. 10. referred to by Linnaeus, as Curcuma rotunda. 
That Dr. Roxburgh might have cited this figure for the pandurata, 
I have not the least doubt. The only distinctions that appear to 
subsist between that and the figure which he has given, are in the 
form of the leaf, and of the upper lip of the nectary ; and these 
differences it will not be difficult to reconcile. In fact, it clearly 
appears, from comparing Dr. Roxburgh's figure with that in the 
Hort. Mal. that the K. Ovata, in p. 22 of my arrangement, is the 
| pandurata of Dr. Roxburgh. My description was taken from the 
figure of Van Rheede, where the nectary appears to be pointed ; 
but at the time that work was published, minute botanical di- 
stinctions were not sufficiently attended to; and the lip, though 
ovate, might, if viewed aside, take.that appearance. On com- 
paring the leaves as given in the two figures, I- find them 
nearly to agree; and the plants are so similar in their general 
habit, that I have not the least hesitation in withdrawing the 
specific appellation of Ovata, for the more appropriate one of 
* Four more are described by Sir J. E. Smith in Rees’s Cyclopedia, the ellipticum, spisaiin , 
thyrsiforme and coccineum, all found by Dr. Buchanan in Nepaul, | 
pandurata, 
