14 WONANDELE MONOGYNIA. Kempferia. 
ever point at out as the largest of the genus. The sessile, undivided, 
and acute lips distinguish it from the other species. 
KJEMPFERIA. Lim. gen. pl. ed. Schreb. No. 9. 
Corolla with a long, slender tube, and both borders three-parted. 
Anther double, with a two-lobed crest. Capsule three-celled, many- 
seeded. i; 
1. K. Galanga. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd. 1. 15. 
Leaves sessile, round-ovate-cordate. Spikes central. PE ud 
ments of the inner border of the corol oval. 
Katsjula Kelengu. Feed. mal. 11. p. 81. t. 41. 
Alpinia sessilis. Kon. in Retz. obs. 3. p. 62. 
Soncorus. Ranh. amb. 5. E 173. t. m M 2 
Beng. Einaria, dr Kaa tems d 
A native of various parts of India,* ail common in gardens also. 
Flowering time the rainy season. 
Root biennial, tuberous, with fleshy fibres from the tubers.—Stem 
none.— Leaves radical, petioled, spreading flat on the surface of the - 
earth, round-ovate-cordate, between acute and obtuse; margins mem- 
branaceous, and waved ; uppersurface smooth, deep green; below taper 
and somewhat woolly, streaked length ways with ten or twelve slender 
lines.— Petioles hid in the earth ; in short they are only cylindricsheaths _ 
‘embracing those within, and the fascicle of flowers, their mouths be- 
ing crowned with a membranaceous -process.— Flowers collected in- 
small fascicles, of 6-19, within the sheaths of the leaves, 4 ex] andi 
in succession; pure, pellucid white, except a purple sp« | 
tre of each of the divisions of the inner border, or lip. —i TG e 
to each flower ; a larger exterior; and two within atthe Sides; all are 
linear, acute, membranaceous, and half the length of | the tube of the: 
This plant, whichis said to be very common on the moustainous districts beyond 
Pitta Sick ge A find on further inquiry.tliat it is cultivated by the 
Joomma (m ) Mugs, and by: em brought do 1 and sold in the markets to- 
APER m iR UMEN as an ingredientin their be- 
