68 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Alpinia, 
much recurved, much shorter than the calyx ; border double. 
Exterior three-parted ; superior divisions incumbent, oval, 
concave, inferior two smaller, linear-oblong, narrower than 
the superior one; all are obtuse and of a pure glossy white 
colour. Lip or inner border, large, elegantly variegated 
with crimson and yellow, surrounded with an orange-colour- 
ed edging, three-lobed; the two lateral lobes semi-lunar, 
and inate into a large sub-campanulate tube under the 
upper segment of the exterior border ; exterior lobe smaller, 
curled, and bifid. In this species there are no spurs between 
its base and the filament, as in most of the other species of 
this genus, Filament nearly as long as the broad double 
anther, which projects over the middle of the lip. Germ 
round, villous, three-celled, with many ovula in each attached 
to the partitions near the axis, Style filiform, embraced at 
the base by a single, truncate, dentate, glandular body, (nec- 
tary of Kénig, Retzius, and Willdenow.) Stigma funnel- 
shaped, ciliate, rising with a curve through the bifid apex 
of the anther. Capsule berried, size of a large gooseberry, 
deep orange, or yellow, according to their state of maturity ; 
not opening spontaneously as in A, nutans, when dry, wrmk- 
led, and a little hairy, Seeds numerous, angular, arilled, 
Aril complete, but thin, and when perfectly dry scarcely 
traceable. Integuments two; exterior thin, inner dark brown, 
and spongy. Perisperm cartilaginous, a deep pit at the 
base, and a deep cleft from the apex down to near the mid- 
dle. Vitellus as in Alpinia malaccensis, in the centre of each 
of the superior lobes of the perisperm, is a somewhat clearer, 
distinct body, as if a continuation of the horns of the crescent , 
of the embryo, but perfectly distinct, and readily separable 
from them and the perisperm. Embryo an inverted crescent, 
with the cylindric radicle descending-from the convex side — 
through the pit at the. base of the perisperm to the umbilicus, 
psc abe ' is also a very degeuk species, and holds a mich 
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