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Alpinia, — MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ef^ 
toothed. ais oral one petalled. Tube short. Border double ; the er- 
terior three-parted; divisions nearly equal, outwardly downy, con- 
cave, particularly near the ends, pale greenish rose colour ; the su- - 
perior one more remote. Interior border, or lip buio-chulyy with 
two fleshy protuberances near the base ; divisions with two-toothed 
apices and waved margins, colour a beautiful mixture of deep, and 
pale rose.— Nectary (of König and Reiz.) two oblong, compressed, 
fleshy bodies, embracing the base of the style.— Filament short, 
broad, much flattened. Anther double, each lobe ending in an obtuse 
horalet.— Germ inferior, globular. Style lodged in the grove of the 
filament- Stigma clubbed, somewhat three-sided, obtuse, with acres- 
. cent-like fissure, and ciliate wargin.— Capsule globular, inclining 
to be three-sided, smooth, when ripe black, and friable, not opening - 
by sutures, but crumbling to pieces, crowned with the permanent, 
withered calyx, and coral, three-celled. 
3. A. bracteata. R. 
Leaves \anceolar, villous underneath. Raceme terminal, simple ; pe- 
dicels, one-flowered. Bractes green, 
A native of the Eastern parts of Bengal. In the Botanic Garden 
near Calcutta it flowers in March. This is one of the smallest of our 
East India Alpinias ; this circumstance, and the green bractes, imme- - 
diately distinguish it from malaccensis, which is not so easily done in 
a specific definition, Five 
Root biennial, or perhaps, perennial, —Stems erect, about three 
feet high, entirely invested iu the smooth sheaths of the leaves.— 
Leaves bifarious, petioled, from ovate-oblong below, to lanceolar 
above, fine-pointed ; the upper surface smooth, polished, deep green, 4 
villous and paler underneath ; length from six to eighteen inches. =. 
Petioles proper about an inch long, and deeply channelled. Sheaths ; 
mud; rising a little above the insertion of ihe proper meua 
