Kempferia. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, — ety 
green on the upper surface; veins parallel, and;pretty. con- 
spicuous, from six to. twelve inches long. Petioles above the 
bifid ligula, deeply. channelled, and from two to six or eight 
inches long ; the lower portion sheathing, and forming some- 
thing like a stem. Spike hid in the centre of the sheaths of the 
leaves, unilateral, being imbricated.on one side, (say the an- 
terior,) with many, sessile, slender, lanceolate, colourless, one- 
flowered pairs of (exterior, and interior ) scales or bractes, 
Flowers pretty large, expanding in succession, and rarely 
more than one atatime, Calyx superior, membranaceous, 
irregularly three-toothed. Corol; tube long, and slender. . 
Border double; exterior of three, slender, lanceolate, nearly 
equal, straight, pale pink-coloured segments ; inner of three 
unequal portions ; the two superior, or lateral, obovate, the 
colour and length of. the exterior three: the lower, or lip, 
somewhat panduriform, much broader ‘and longer than the 
former, and of a much deeper colour. Filament very slen- 
der. Anther two-lobed, and crowned with an emarginate, 
recurved helmet. | Germ three-celled, each cell containing 
many ovula, attached to the axis. » Stigme —" a se- 
anne pening? which hon thes straight portion of its margin 
Nectarial 
+B K. vali fold. Rails ee hype it 
_ Leaves oval. Spikes central, cninanck site Jatiniaté, | 
. A native of the peninsula of Malacca, and from thence 
sent, by Major Farquhar, to the Botanic garden at Calecut- 
ta, where it blossoms in July, _ It is an intermediate species, 
both with respect to size and habit, between K, Galangaand - 
rotunda, and ought to be placed between them in the system. 
- Root tuberous, as in the other species, and about biennial. 
Stems. very short ; ok mem ed sooo san Leaves few, 
