62 MONANDRIA MONOGYNTA. = Alpinia. 
debi retuse. Capstiles — — re ee 
seeded, : = 
Hellenia Allughas. intk: sp. pl. ed. Willd. 1. A. 
Mala-inschi-kua. Rheed. Mal. 11. p. 29. t. 14. 
“Sans. Taruka. 
Ben). Taruka, or Tara. 
This plant is common near Calcutta, in low moist places, 
among brush mod: Flowermg time the ing the 
eee season, 
Root tabersus biennial, or perennial, horizontal, brownish, 
with many pretty thick fibres, considerably aromatic. Stem 
erect, slightly compressed, entirely covered with the sheaths 
of the leaves; from three to six feet highs Leaves alternate, 
 pifarious, petioled, oblong, ending in a fine twisted point ; 
both sides smooth, and glossy ; the under side paler colour; 
veins numerous, straight, exceedingly fine, going off at an 
acute angle; generally about a foot long, aid ‘four inches 
broad. Petioles sheathing with a aapdlary rounded process 4 
rising above the insertion of the leaf. Panicle terminal, 
bending slightly to one side. lowers numerous, in succes- 
sion, large, of a beautiful rose colour, modorous, Calyx 
superior, gibbous, fleshy, generally two or three-toothed. 
Corol one-petalled ; tube short ; border double; the exte- 
rior three-parted ; divisions cheat equal, outwardly downy, 
concave, particularly near the ends, pale greenish. Fone, colour ; 
the superior one more remote. Interior border, or lip two- 
cleft, with two fleshy protuberances near ‘the base ; divisions 
with two-toothed apices and waved margins, colour a beau- 
tiful mixture of deep, and pale’ rose. Nectary (of Konig and 
Retz.) two oblong, ¢ SEC » fleshy bodies, embracing tl the’ 
base of the style. “Filament short, broad, much flattened. 
Anther double, each lobe ending in an obtuse’ hornlet, et. Germ 
= globular, Style lodged in the groove of the fila-" 
‘ment, Sa clubbed, somewhat three-sided, are 
