yee 
- from thence to the Botanic Garden near Calcutta, where the plants 
: thrive remarkably well, and are in blossom during the latter half o 
perennial, or. at least more durable than those of herbaceous 
58 -MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ` Alpinia. 
of them, which they deem wholesome, and nutritious ; the dry root 
does not at all resemble the Costus arabicus of the shops. 
ALPINIA. Schreb. gen. No. 5 
-Corolla with thei interior border unilabiate. Anther double, naked. 
Capsule berried, three-celled. Seeds few, or many, arilled. Embryo 
simple, aud furnished with both perisperm and vitellus. 
"e Sect: 1. Inflorescence-terminal. 
1. A. Galanga. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. 1.12. Roscoe in ps of 
Linn. Soc. 8. 345. 
Perennial. Leaves sessile, broad lanceolar. Punielé ina Lip 
oblong, unguiculate; aper bifid. Capsule obovate, smooth, seeds few. - 
Galanga major. Rumph. amb. 5. t. 63 = = = 
Sans. E Koolunyoga, wae, Diii, stems: 
na aes ty Koolunjuna, sacar, Soogundha, Het 
Row Muhabliura-vucha. - do 289 : 
Hind. Koolinjan. ` 
Arab. Kholinjan or Khoolunjan. 
Dr. Charles Campbell, at Bencoolen, sent the roots of these species | 
the hot season, April and May. Seeds ripen, though pg in No- 
vember. - 
Root perennial, tuberous as in ginger, Ke. possessing a faint : 
aromatic smell, and strong pungent taste, like a mixture of pepper 
atid ginger, accompanied with some degree of bitterness, and now — 
ascertained to be the real Galanga major of the ‘shops.— Stems : : 
plants, nearly erect, round, smooth ; general length, when i in flower, 
about six or seven feet; and as thick as a slender ^ walking cane. 
Leaves occupy from the middle of the plant upward; the lower 
half being inverted in leafless sheaths only; they are Me 
~ bifarious, lanceolár, margins white and somewhat callous, both sur- - 
as 
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