`- Monandrian Class usually called Scitaminee, = 348 
is nearly allied to Kempferia, seems not to have been founded on 
any actual inspection of the plants, which differ no less in their 
habit than in their fructification. - Not to mention the long linear 
segments of the exterior limb ar the corolla, by which deno: 
feria is distinguished from every other genus, the difference be- | 
tween it and. Hedychium is strongly marked by the anthera-bear- 
ing filament; which in Kempferia extends beyond the anthera, 
and diverges into two foliaceous lobes, whilst in Hedychium the 
anthera is terminal, naked, and affixed to each margin of the 
filament. | ^n 
To Alpinia, Hedychium is more nearly related; but is sufli- 
ciently distinguished. by its long tube. and interior trifid corolla. 
It may also be observed that in Alpinia, the double anthera is 
attached in two adjacent lobes to the front of the filament, and 
not to the revolute margins, as in Hedychium. 
H. coronarium, Willd. Sp. Pl. o. 1. 10. 
—  —Fig. Curt. Bot. M ag. 708. 
Bot. Gard. Liverpool. 
id 
: ib. | 0. the Alpinia racemosa of. Linnzus ;. of which | | 
a “specimen remains in his herbarium, which I have had an — 
oppor tunity of examining, vile the favour gd its Bigs liberal 
