280 Mr. Roscor’s Remarks on Dr. Roxburgh’s Description 
very short distance from the anthera: vol. x. tab. 5. fig. 4, 5, 6. 
These characteristics seem to me to separate the Elettaria from 
every other genus; the hornlets not being attached to the base 
of the larger petal or nectarium, as in Alpinia, where they seem 
to perform the office of honey-cups, but being, as in Amomum, 
a simple process of the filament, of no perceptible use in the 
ceconomy of the plant, and contributing merely an additional 
feature to its discrimination. TUR 
To the fine genus of Alpinia, it is not improbable that consi- 
derable additions may yet be made. In a splendid collection of 
Chinese drawings, belonging to the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, 
F.L.S. I find figures of three species, which appear to me to be 
undescribed, although they equal in beauty any of those hitherto 
known. 'The drawings, as usual in Eastern figures, are not ac- 
companied by dissections of the plants ; but such an account of 
them as can be given will not, I flatter myself, be uninteresting 
to you. l á 
-. Of the first of these, the inflorescence is terminal and pendu- 
lous; the calyx or exterior petal short and pointed; the interior - 
-or nectarium, broad, simple, emarginate ; its colour bright yellow, 
regularly streaked with crimson ; filament simple, the stigma just 
appearing beyond the termination; leaves lanceolate, regularly 
nerved, margins simple, and like some others of the species, the 
unfolded blossoms have the appearance of fine China-ware, (Al- 
pinia pennicellata.) — 
The second of these varies greatly from any of the order hitherto 
known, and may perhaps constitute a new genus. The inflores- 
cence is terminal, inclining, but not pendulous; the calyx or 
exterior petals ovate ; nectarium flat, broad, panduriform, colour 
bright yellow, with a mid-rib or nerve through the middle, from 
which diverge crimson streaks ; leaves lanceolate, glaucous below, 
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