Alpinia, MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 67 
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ovula in each, attached to the inner edge of the partitions. 
Stigma on the first expansion of the flower erect through | 
the fissure of the apex of the anther; afterwards, as the style 
lengthens, its apex becomes involute, and throws the stig- 
ma under the anther. Nectaries (of Konig) two, square, 
fluted, fleshy bodies within the tube, on the = of the oe, 
ppg} g the base of the style. | 
Obs, This is no doubt one of the most gaudy of our East 
Indian Scitaminee, It multiplies itself by the root very fast, 
grows quickly, and continues to produce its numerous, large, 
elegant, drooping panicles, of beautiful flowers for two 
months, and more or less the whole year round. 
6. a mutica, R, 
Leaves short-petioled, narrow-lanceolar, polished. Recenie 
erect, compound. Lip three-lobed, base spurless. Cap- 
sule buried. Seeds numerous, angular. Ail evanescent. - 
Found indigenous in the forests of Prince of Wales’ Island 
by Mr. W. Roxburgh, and from thence introduced into the 
Botanic garden near Calcutta, where it flowers about the 
We oe the es and ripens its seed from October till 
January. 
‘Stems numerous, erect, involved in the sheaths of the 
deiivés, from four to six feet high, generally biennial, as they 
do not perish till after the seed is ripe. Leaves alternate, bifari- 
ous, short-petioled, narrow-lanceolar, acute polished, and en- 
tire, from ten to twenty-four inches long. Sheaths smooth, 
- ending in a rounded ligula, above the insertion of the leaf. 
Racewes terminal, erect, compound, conical, many-flowered ; 
peduncles a little downy. Pedicels alternate, short, villous, 
ewe three, or even four-flowered. Bractes of the edicels 
= a’, with te Biwi Eaure deepest, he white, Coro 15 tae 
