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- 66 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA- — -— | Alpima, | 
four dieet long. Sheaths smooth, ending in a rounded ligula, above 
/ the insertion of the leaf.— Racemesterminal, erect, compound, coni- 
cal, many-flowered : peduncles a little downy. ^ Pedicels alternate, - 
"short, villous, two, three, or even four-flowered. — Bractes of the 
- pedicels, and pedicelli solitary, oblong, caducous.— Flowers numer- 
“ous, large, drooping —Calyr longer than the tube of the corol, wideti- 
Sing from the base ; mouth irregularly three-toothed, with the lower 
"fissüre deepest, pure white. Corol. Tube much recurved, much 
> shorter than the calyx; border double. Exterior three-parted ; supe- — 
"rior divisions incumbent, oval, concave, inferior two smaller, linear — 
* oblong, narrower than the superior one; all are obtuse and of a pure — 
"glossy white colour. Lip or inner border, large, elegantly variegated - 
"with erimson and yellow, surrounded with an orange-coloured edg- 
ing; ; three-lobed:; the two lateral lobes simi-lunar and incurved into a 
large sub-campanulate tube under the upper segment of the exterior — 
border ; exterior lobe smaller,cirled, and bifid. In this species there - 
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“are no spurs between its] base and ‘the filament, as in most of the other - 
“species of this genus a lament nearly as long as the broad double 
"a ther, which projects over the middle of the lip.— Germ round, vil- 
“Jous, three-celled, with many ovula in each attached to the partitions 
near the axis. Style filiform, embraced at the base by a single, truncate, - 
` dentate, glandular body, (nectary of König, Retzius, and Willdenow.) - 
Stigma funnel-shaped, ciliate, rising with a curve through the bifid a- 
.pex of the anther.— Capsule berried, size of alarge gooseberry, deep 
orange, or yellow, according to their state of maturity ; not opening 
: spontaneously as in A. nutans, when dry, wrinkled, anda little hai- - 
Tr ry — Seeds numer ous, angular, arilled. Aril complete, but thin, and 
! perfectly dry scarcely traceable. Integuments two; exterior thin, - 
nner dark brown, and spongy. — Perisperm cartilaginous, a deep 
pit at the base, and adeep cleft from the apex down to near the mid- 
dle. Vitellus as in Alpinia malaccensis, in the centre of each of the 
superior lobes of the perisperm, is a somewhat clearer, distinct body, 
as ifa continuation of the horns of the crescent of the embryo,” but 
perfectly distinct, aud readily separable from them, and the’ pēri- 
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