360 JACK’S MALAYAN PLANTS, 
lower bracts are of a fine rosy colour, large and spreading, so 
as to form a kind of involucre to the head; the upper bracts 
are shorter, imbricated, oblong or tongue-shaped, rosy, with 
white ciliate edges, each supporting a single flower. The 
involucel or inner bract, which embraces the ovary, is tubular 
and irregularly bifid, being cloven more deeply on one side 
than the other. Calyx reddish, deeply cloven on one side, 
by which the three regular segments become secund. Corolla ; 
outer limb three-parted, segments nearly equal, erect, the 
upper one rather the largest; inner limb unilabiate, longer 
than the outer, lip ascending, involving the anther, deep 
purplish red with yellow edge, rhomboid-ovate, entire, some- 
what crisped at the point, without spurs or sterile filaments 
at the base. Stamen shorter than the lip; anther naked. 
Style as long as the anther. Stigma thick, triangular, 
anteriorly concave. Ovary sericeously pilose, three-celled, 
many-seeded. l 
Oss. This is a very remarkable species, easily dis- 
tinguished from the other A/pinie with radical inflorescence 
by the great height of the sie and the fine rosy colour of 
the lower bracts. 
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ALPINIA CAPITELLATA. - J. 
Foliis longe petiolatis supra glabris, racemo vtemali 
composito, capitulis florum bracteis involucratis. 
In the interior of Bencoolen. _ 
Stems four or five feet high. Leaves alternate, bifarious, 
long petioled on their sheaths, broad lanceolate, fine-pointed, 
entire, parallel-veined, smooth above, slightly tomentose 
beneath. Sheaths villous near the top, terminating above 
the petioles in a long ciliate ligula. Raceme terminal, 
compound, inclining, red. Flowers in heads, which are 
embraced by large round bracts. Calyx tubular, three- 
cornered, nearly entire. Corolla; outer limb three parted, 
the upper segment fornicate; the inner limb unilabiate, of 
one large coloured "rt Stamen one; anther two-lobed, 
