Kempferia, | MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, VW 
long, slender, cylindric, nearly erect, obliquely funnel-shap- 
-ed towards the mouth; border double, both: three-parted. 
Exterior divisions drooping, linear, with margins involute, 
pure white, Interior border, the two uppermost divisions — 
-erect, lanceolar, acute; colour also white, with the margins 
slightly tinged with purple; the remaining inferior one is © 
divided into two broad, obcordate, deflected lobes, of a deep 
purple colour, particularly towards the centre, and base, 
Nectarial filaments of Konig asin K. Galanga, Filament 
short, erect, broad, inserted on the base of the uppermost 
‘two’ interior divisions of the corol. Anther linear, and 
‘enlarged with an ovate, two-forked, coloured, somewhat 
‘Teeurved: ‘crest. Germ ovate. mgt filiform. Stigma fumel- 
Obs. Woodville observes) at page 362 of his ‘Medical 
Botany, that the roots of Zedoaria longa, and rotunda are | 
both’ produced by the same species of plant, and are indis- 
criminately used in the shops: the former, he says, are 
brought to us in oblong pieces, about the thickness of the 
little finger; two or three inches in length, bent, rough, and 
-angular; the latter are roundish, about an inch i in diameter, 
of an ash colour on the outside, and white within. I have 
never met with any of the roots of this plant that agree with 
‘liis description of the long sort, and they are too:small for 
the round; so that I must conclude they are the produce of 
some other gine at the same time Dr. Woodville’s observa- _ 
tions on the same page, give me reason to think my Curcuma 
Zedoaria may be the paar which site this round sort of 
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