Alpinia. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 61 
in each cell, attached to the middle of the partition. Style 
filiform. "Stigma funnel-shaped, fringed ; while the flower 
is in vigorous blossom, erect between the lobes of the anther, ; 
afterwards recurved under the anther, Nectarial bodies 
(of Kénig) nearly square, fluted. Germ oblong, smooth, 
three-celled, with two ovula in each, attached to the axis. 
Capsule the size of a small cherry, obovate, smooth, deep 
orange red, three-celled, but entire, as no separation seems 
to exist, the thin dry cortex crumbles, or breaks to pieces, 
without any tendency toseparate into valves, Seed one,rarely 
two. in each cell, much compressed, size of a grain of black 
pepper. Avi/ nearly complete, there being only an opening at 
the apex, thin, rather fibrous, and ofa dull white colour. In- 
teguments two, or three; exterior, tough, fibrous, polished, 
of a dark chesnut colour, a little wrinkled ; inner hard, dark 
brown; between the two is a spongy lamina of the same 
colour, and I camnot well say to which it most properly 
belongs. Perisperm white, friable, and very hard. Embryo 
simple, dull white, (canus,) roundish in the body of the peri- 
sperm, and with the narrow, conic rasiele passing through 
it and pointing to the umbilicus, 
Note by Mr, Colebrooke, “ The root of this plant being 
ascertained to be the Galanga major of the druggists, com- 
formably with what has been said of it by Rumphius, there 
is no doubt of its being Kholinjan of the Arabs, termed 
in Hindee Kulinjan. In Sanskrit it is called Kulanjana, 
according to one authority, (the Rajnighantu;) butt Su-— 
* .gandha-vacha, sweet-scented Acorus; as also Mahalhari- 
vacha, according to another Indian treatise, (the A hava- 
pracasa.) If the first name be genuine Sanskrit, which 
is however doubtful, the similar names in other lang uages,. 
including the European, must be derived Bisa or im- 
mabey fom < igla ci higsim 
Lass nite, alii, Panicle terial. ip ily 
