74 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Alpinia,. 
about six or seven feet, and as thick as a slendér walking 
cane. Leaves sub-bifarious, short-petioled on their sheaths, 
lanceolate, rounded at the base, both sides smooth ; from six ; 
to twenty inches long, by from three to six broad. Sheaths 
smooth on both sides, rising into a short, ciliate ligula, above. 
the insertion of the short, semi-cylindric, proper petioles.. 
Spikes radical, half immersed in the earth, sub-cylindric, . 
pretty compactly imbricated with from oblong to lanceolate, . 
coloured, smooth, one-flowered bractes. Flowers large, colour | 
a bright ‘red, like the finest carmine. Bractes interior, or. 
inferior perianth, tubular, length of the tube of the corol ; 
with an unequally two, or three-toothed mouth. Peridesthi 
proper superior, tubular, length of the tube of the corol ;. 
mouth generally bifid. Corot with long, slender tube hid 
within the bractes, and perianths. -Axterior border of three, . 
small, paler coloured, lanceolate segments. Lip highly | 
coloured, large, entire, horizontal, sub-parabolic, the lower 
part broad, and incurved round the stamina ; /amina linear, 
with entirely rounded, or slightly marginate apex. Filament. 
short, base spurless. .Anther double, apex bifid, and naked. - 
Germ three-celled, with numerous ovula in each, attached . 
to their respective receptacles, a little removed from the axis... 
Base of the style embraced = two subulate nectaries, sere 
a — ciliated gape. iy 
Si cata Faas sg 
Ln. A. Cardamomum siclkang Rs hitn 
Leaves lanceolar, villous underneath. Spikes aerate 
Lip ovate-lanceolate. Capsules pedicelled, of an ovate ob- 
Jong, conical shape, and nine-winged. 
A native of the hilly countries in the vicinity of Silhet, 
where the plant is called Do-Keswa. It blossoms about the 
beginning of the rains, in June, and the fruits ripen in Sep- 
oa when they are amine and sold to the dealers in - 
pa aes P ein above: their ee linear ulna 
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