68 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA.' Alpinia. " 
celled, "wis many ovula in each, attached to the i inner angle of the 
cells. Stigma funnel-shaped, ciliate. —Nectarial scales nearly four- 
; sided, with apices crenulate. 
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8. A. spicata. R. : “ino basa . 
Spike terminal, oblong, Complets imbricated with narrow lanceo- 
late, acute bractes. S 
_A native of Sumatra, from thesi x scere by Mr. Roxburgh 
into the Calcutta Botanic Garden in 1808. Is the slowest growing | 
and smallest of the genus in this garden. Flowering time the close of | 
the rains. - 
Root as in the other species.—Stems arising in an oblique € 
tion to the height of about two feet, when from two to three years 
old the flowers MR: apd after their functions are performed, the 2 
pes fine-pointed, cem and margins smooth, length from six A 
to twelve inches.-—Sheat/is of the leaves smooth, ending in along, . 
bifid, or simple ligula.—Spikes terminal, strobiliform, compact.— 
Bractes, the exterior imbricate, ensiform-lanceolate, one-flowered, 
outside slightly villous. . Interior or inferior calyx, one-leaved, sub- 
cylindric, length of the perianth proper, mouth obliquely truncate, 
outside villous.—Calyx superior, like the inner bracte, and of the — 
same length, &c.—Corol, exterior border of three, very acute, linear — 
lanceolate segments. Inner or lip uncertain, as the only two spikes Í 
sessile on their sheaths, broad lan- 2 
have yet seen did not expand sufficiently, to allow me to ascertain — 
its form.— Filament short, anther large, of two, long linear lobes with : 
the style sunk between them.— Germ oval, very hairy, three-celled, : 
with numerous ovudain each, attached to the axis. cis slender. Stig- — 
ma; large, canus of two, gaping ‘unequal lobes, onn t i. 
Sect. 9. Inflorescence radical. 
9. A. cardamomum. R. 
Scapes from thé base of the stem, compoundly flexuose, procum- 
bent. Lip three lobed, vih calcarate i E eee : 
