18 "MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ; Kempferia, 
the bifid ligula, deeply channelled, and from 9 to 6 or 8 inches long; 
the lower portion sheathing, and forming something like a stem.— 
Spike hid in the centre of the sheaths of the leaves, unilateral, being 
imbricated on one side, (say the anterior,) with many, sessile, slen- 
der, lanceolate, colourless, one-flowered pairs of (exterior and inte- 
rior) scales or bractes.— Flowers pretty large, expanding in succes-— 
sion, and rarely more than one at a time.— Calyx superior, membra- 
naceous, irregularly three-toothed.—Corol; Tube long, and slender. 
Border double ; Exterior of three, slender, lanceolate, nearly equal, . 
straight, pale pink-coloured segments. Inner of three unequal porti- 
ons; the two superior, or lateral, obovate, the colour and length of 
the exterior three ; the lower, or lip, somewhat panduriform, much: 
broader and longer than the former, and of a much deeper colour.— 
Filament very slender. — Anther two-lobed, and crowned with an 
: 3er ce-celled, each cell contain- 
ing many ovula, attached to the axis. Stigma large, with a semi- 
lunate opening, which has the straight portion of its margin three- 
emarginate, recurved helmet.—Germ three- 
toothed, and the semicircular one even.— Nectarial scales long, and : 
slender. 
5. K. ovalifolia. Roxb. - 
‘Leaves oval. ` Spikes central, crest of the anthers laciniate. 
A native of the peninsula of Malacca, and from thence sent, by 
Major Farquahar, to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it A 
blossoms in July. Tt is an intermediate species, both with respect — 
_ to size and habit, between K. Galanga and rotunda, and ough 
be placed between them in the system. T = ee 
Root tuberous, as in the other species tb GR 
il.— Stems 
“very short. I may say scarcely any.— Leaves few, bifarious, patent, | 
oval, with a short acute point, smooth on both sides, about 6 inches 
long, by 4 broad.— Spikes central, hid by the short sheaths of the 
leaves, few flowered ; the flowers expand in succession, all pure white 
except the purple lip.— Coro? nearly as in rotunda and angustifolia, 
. the upper two segments of the inner border are obtusely lanceolate, 
ESS Te ELSE. CMTE Ee VET erm ee Pee NIS 
