Alpinia. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 4,07: 
sperm.— Embryo an invested crescent, with the cylindric radicle de- 
scending from the convex side through the pt at the base of the pe- 
risperm to the umbilicus? 
Obs. This i is also a very elegant species, and holds a middle rank 
between nutans and calcarata. S 
7. A. calcarata. dine in Trans. of. Linn. Soc. 8. 347. 
Leaves linear-lanceolar, polished. Spike ee — Lip 
ovate-oblong, apex curled, and bifid. | 
- Renealmia calcarata. Andr. Bot. Repos. 6. t. 421. 
A native of China, and from thence introduced by Captain J. Gar- 
nault, into the Botanic Garden near Calcuttain 1799; pese dia 
luxuriantly in the common soil of the garden, and blossoms in 
. March, April, and May, but more or less all the year. — ade ee 
-Root perennial, horizontal, somewhat woolly, crooked, pale-colour- 
ed, stoloniferous, fragrant, enveloped while young in short, alternate 
sheaths ; when old marked with their cicatrices ; and furnished with 
many fleshy ramous fibres.— Stems oblique, smooth; from two to four 
feet high.— Leaves alternate, bifarious, short-petioled on their sheatlis, 
uarrow-lanceolar, fine-pointed, entire, smooth on both sides ; length 
frequently twelve inches, and the breadth from one to two.— Sheaths 
of the leaves stem-clasping, smooth, with a stipulary process project-- 
ing above the insertion of the leaf.— Racemes terminal, solitary; erect, 
compound.— Flowers numerous, large, generally in pairs or more, but 
anding at different periods. —Bractes solitary, boat-shaped, white, 
anio otaa ianh superior, three-toothed, white, smooth.— . 
Corol with double border. Exterior three-cleft ; divisions equal, linear, - 
expanding, pellucid, white. Interior, or lip ovate-oblong; large, deep- 
ly coloured with dark purple veins on-a yellow ground, aper twos : 
lobed, lobes rounded and curled; there are no lateral lobes in this 
Species, nor are the sides much incurved; but two, incurved, sharp, E 
subulate horns project from its two posterior angles and embrace the - 
- base of the filament.— Filament single, opposite to the ig ; 
corol, projecting, &c. as in the genus.— Germ piena 
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