62 /— MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. - Alpinia: | 
manenttban in the other species, aud of a dull green colour, hiding the 
calyx.— Calyx shorter than the bracte, open on the underside, biden- 
tate.— Corol ; exterior border of three oval, nearly equal, white seg: 
ments; lip somewhat three-lobed ; lateral lobes large and incurved in 
toa tube round the stamina; exterior narrower, with a bifid apex, col 
our a beautiful mixture of crimson and yellow, with a paler belt on . | 
each side.— Filament short, with two curved spurs at its base. Anther 
double, linear.— Germ oval, three-celled ; with many ovula in each 
attached to the inner angle. Stigma funnel-shaped, sub-ciliate. 
4. A. malaccensis. Roscoe in Trans. Linn: Soc. 8- 345. 
Leaves lanceolate, petioled, villous underneath. Raceme terminal, - 
simple. Lip obscurely three-lobed, with two spurs at the base, latera : 
lobes incurved. Capsules obliquely spheriodal. 
Maranta malaccensis. Linn. Sp- Pi- ed. Willd. 1. 14. 
Galanga malaccensis. Rumph. amb. 5. p. 176. t. 71. Xr 
A most beautiful and stately plant, a native of Chittagong, and | 
from thence sent, by Mr. W. M. Maddern, to the Botanic Garden - 
near Calcutta, where it blossoms in April and May, the very hot- 
_ test time of the year; and ripens its seed in the rains. 
Root perennial.— Stems numerous, (within four years, a single - 
root encreased so much, as to produce about fifty,) from six to ten - 
feet in height; those in the centre erect, in the circumference’ bend- 
ing out; in two, three, or four years, the stoutest blossom, ripen 
their seed and decay.— Leaves bifarious , petioled, lanceolate, acute; 
margins. often waved, and slightly fringed with short brown hairs; | 
upper surface smooth; under downy; length from two to three 
feet, and from three to eight or nine inches broad -— Sheaths smooth, 
embracing the stems completely, ligula ovate, obtuse, entire, vil- 
lous.  Petioles (I mean the space between the ligula and leaf), about 
three incheslong and channelled. — Racemes terminal , Solitary, erect, 
always simple; froin six to twelve inches long. Polis round, and - 
villous. Pedicels short, villous, iiio n ered; the largest sometimes — 
d a little from ihe hic of the flow Skee aes of at? or- 
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