72 A MONANDRIA MONOGXNIA. Alpinia, — 
` Sheaths. idis on both sie fising. into a.sliort, ciliate ligula, — | 
above the insertion of the short, semi-cylindric, proper petioles.— 
Spikes radical, half immersed in the earth, sub-cylindric, pretty com- 42 
pactly imbricated with from oblong to lanceolate, coloured, smooth, 
one-flowered bractes.— Flowers large, colour a bright red, like the fin. 
est carmine.—Bractes interior, ovinferior perianth, tubular, length of | 
the tube of the corol; with an unequally two, or three-toothed month. _ 
— Perianth proper superior, tubular, length of the tube of the corol; | 
mouth generally bifid.—Corol with long, slender tube hid within the 
bractes, and perianths.— Exterior border of three, small, paler colour- 
ed, lanceolate segments. Exp highly coloured, large, entire, horizontal, : 
sub-parabolic, the Jower part broad, and encurved round the stamina; — 
lamina linear, with entirely rounded, ‘or. slightly marginate apex.— a 
Filament short, base.spurless, Anther. double, apex. bifid, and. na- 7 
ked.— Germ three-celled, with numerous ovula in each, attached to " 
ée s, a little removed. dam the axis. Base of p 
the crois two. dapes. nectaries. Stigma a lamellate, 
their respective recepta 
ciated gape 
ad : 
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Leaces lanceolar, villous underneath, Spikes radical, ma Ti ovate 
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lanceolate. Capsules Mic, of an ovate oblong, conical shape, 4 
and nine-winged. à 
A native of the: hilly countries in. the vicinity of Silhet, pa or de | | 
plantis called Do-Keswa. It blossoms about the beginning of the rains, d 
in June, and the fruits ripen in September, when n hey are gathered, nd 
sold to the dealers in drugs. 
Leaves petioled above their sheaths, Vilis E icon under- af 
neath, from two to three feet long, by two to four inches broad.— _ 
Sheaths villous, rising in an obtuse ligula above the -insertion of — 
the leaf— Spikes radical, oblong, laxly imbricated, rising but little — 
above the earth ; lower part, or scape hid im the soil, and clothed » with | 
shorter scariose bractes.— Flowers numerous, large, red, fragrant.— 
Bractes exterior, one under each flower, a lanceolate,’ ribbed; smooth, . 
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