Kempferia. : MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 9 
as in the latter ; the lip or nectarium of a deep variegated purple có- 
lour, the shape cuneate-obcordate, and divided from the apex nearly 
half the length into two long emarginate lobes.—Filament short. 
Anther two-lobed, and crowned with a large, laciniate, erect, White 
crest.— Germ three-celled, &e..as in the genus. 
The fines iiie added dày Mr. N. Wallich. 
Dried specimens of the following two plants were sent to me from 
the mountains North-East of Bengal under the vou name, Kat- 
tia a jorung ee time e and season. © 
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Caulesteit. E 
nal, gently curved, unilateral. Crest of the filament entire. . e. MM. 
The Root appears to send a number of simple fibres from its up- : 
per part.—Stems simple, slightly ascendent, entirely invested with 
long, membranaceous, striate, rather loose sheaths ; 8 or 10 inches - 
long, like the leaves and bractes, smooth.— Leaves acute at the Base, 
tapering from the middle into a very long linear point ; finely stfiat- 
ed, from 3 to 4 inches long.—Petioles short, channelled ; within their 
base an ‘oblong, membranaceous slightly hairy, entire Uta Spie 
scarcely longer than the uppermost leaf, few-flowëéred.— Exterior 
bractes large, two or - three-flowered, imbricating at the back of the - 
spike ; interior, two, small, embracing the base of the flowers.—Flow- 
ers about as large as those of K.G Galanga, expanding successively, 
— Calyx short, cylindric, hairy.—Exter r segments sof thecorol short- ` 
er:than the interior ; all are, lanceolate, acute, spreading g. Nectary ot 
inferior segment of the interior border, large, coi lo Filmen 
short, linear, expanding above the anther into a anceolate, acute“ 
crest. —Anther two-lobed, linear; scarcely marginated by the base of 
the en nn styles se and vh at the base of the topi 
M mifi T 
Leaves petioled, ovate, AP 
as in the geniga jr seine 
Aa pet : 
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