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sheaths, lanceolate, very entire, very smooth, parallel-veined ; 
above a foot in length. Sheaths smooth, prolonged into a 
very long ligula. Spike terminal, nodding, short, dense, 
strobiliform.  Bracts lanceolate, as long as the calyx; within 
this the ovary is embraced by a tubular bract about half the 
length of the other. Flowers numerous. Calyx superior, 
tubular, oblique at the mouth. Corolla long, outer limb 
three-parted, with long narrow segments; two segments of 
the interior limb much shorter and broader; the third 
segment or lip, which is united to the filament, bifid, the 
divisions narrow and diverging. Filament very long, embrac- 
ing the style. Anther recurved, naked. Style length of the 
stamen. Stigma thick. Ovary pilose, three-celled, several- 
seeded. Nectarial bodies oblong. 
Oss. This is a handsome species, and though its flowers 
are not so large and showy as those of the H. coronarium, 
this is in some degree compensated by the greater number 
which expand at one time. It is the first wild species I have 
met with in the Eastern Islands. 
ALPINIA ELATIOR. W. J. 
Scapis radicalibus elatis, spicis ovatis, corolla labio integro 
basi mutico, foliis basi subcordatis glabris. 
Bunga Kenchong. Malay. 
Found on Pulo Nias also at Ayer Bangy, on the west 
coast of Sumatra. 
The stems are from five to eight feet high, round, some- 
what compressed, smooth, striated ; leaves alternate, bifarious, 
petiolate on their sheaths, ovate-oblong, broad, subcordate at 
the base, acuminate, very smooth on both sides, polished 
above, striated with fine parallel nerves; from one to two 
 feetlong. Ligula of the sheaths rounded. — Scapes rising at 
a little distance from the stems, two or three feet high, erect, 
round, smooth, invested by sheaths which are rounded at 
their points and mucronate below the apex. Spikes short, 
thick, ovate, compact, densely covered with flowers. 'The 
