Kempferia. |= MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 15 
BAS ad 
KZMPFERLA. Line, gen. pl. od. Sohreb. ne 9. 
Corolla with a long, slender tube, and both hovdors pre 
parted, Anther double, with a two-lobed crest. Capes 
thaae;selled, many-seeded, ee 
“1.K; Galanga. Linn. ap. pled. Willd. 1. 15. . avs 
Leaves sessile, round-ovate-cordate. Spikes central,. Upper 
segments of thg inner border of the corol oval. 
Katsjula Kelengu, Rheed. Mal. 11. p. 81. t. 41. 
_ Alpinia sessilis. Kon. in Retz. Obs, 3. p. 62. 
Soncorus. Rumph. Amb. 5. p. secede ea 
_ Sans, Chundra-moolika. f 
A native of various parts of India, and common in gar- 
dens also. Flowering time the rainy season, 
Root biennial, tuberous, with fleshy fibres from. the jokes 
Stem none. Leaves radical, petioled, spreading flat on the 
surface of the earth, samulecemnainialides between acute and 
obtuse ; margins membranaceous, and waved ; upper surface 
smooth, deep green; below taper and: snininniland: woolly ; 
streaked lengthways with ten or twelve slender lines, Pe- 
tioles hid: in the earth; in. short they are only cylindric 
 embracin - those. within, and the fascicle of flowers, 
their months being crowned with a membranaceous process, 
Flowers collected in small fascicles, from six to twelve, with- 
in the sheaths of the leaves, expanding in succession; pure, 
pellucid white, except a purple spot on the centre of each of 
the divisions of the inner border, or lip. Bractes three to 
_ each flower; a larger exterior ; and two within at the sides; 
all are linear, acute, membranaceous, and half the length of 
the tube of the corol. Calyx length of the bractes, Corol ; 
tube long, filiform; border double, both shee oat Ex- 
rig firmion liom: acute ; interior, upper two ¢ 2% 
ther replete earner 0 nia with a bidentate 
