66 - MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Alpinia, 
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and I cannot well say to which it most properly belongs.— Perisperm 
white, friable, and very hard.—Enmbryo simple, dull white, (canus,) 
roundish in the body of the perisperm, and with the narrow, conic 
radicle, passing through it and pointing to the umbilicus. 
Note by Mr. Colebrooke. — **'The root of this plant being ascer- 
*' tained to be the Galanga major of the druggists, comformably with 
“ what has been said of it by Rumphius, there is no doubt of its being — 
* Kholinjan of the Arabs, termed in Hindee Culinjan. In Sanskritit 
“ is called Culanjana, according to one authority, (the Rajnighantu 3) ; 
“ but Sugaudha-vacha, sweet-scented Acorus; as also Mahabharis 
"e gae, according to another [udian treatise, (the Bhava _pracasa.) E 
“ IF the first name be genuine Sanskrit, which is however doubtful, f 
‘ Ce similar names in other languages, including the European, mus 
*' be derived directly, or immediately from it.” 
2, ^. Allughas. Roscoe in Trans. Linn. Soc. 8. 346. 
Leaves lanceolar, polished. Panicle terminal. Lip bifid ; lobes : 
fetuse. Capsules spherical, (black,) one-valved, haraa 
Hellenia Allughas. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. Willd. 1. 4. 
Mala-inschi-kua. Reed. mal. 11. p. 99. i. 14. 
Sans. ques :, Taruka. 
Beng. Taruka, or Tara. 
This plant is common near Calcutta, in low moist places, among 
brush wood. Flowering time the beginning of the rainy season. 
Root tuberous, biennial, or perennial, horizontal, brownish, with 
| many pretty thick fibres, considerably aromatic.—Stem erect, slightly 
compressed, entirely covered with the sheaths of the leaves; from three 
to six feet bigh.— Leaves alternate, bifarious, petioled, oblong, end- 
ing in a fine twisted point ; both sides smooth, and glossy; the under 
side paler colour; veins numerous, straight, exceedingly fine, going off - 
at an acute angle ; generally about a foot long, and four inches broad. 
— Petioles sheathing with a stipulary rounded process rising above the i i 
insertion of the leaf.— Panicle terminal, bending slightly to one side, E 
— Flowers numerous, in succession, large, of a beautiful rose colour, ' 
inodorous,—Calyx superior, gibbous, leshy,. generally two or threes ; | 
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