50 ^ TA MCA L MA GA ZFNE. [Vol. x vi. 



seniiorLicular, rounded or emarginate and ciliated at the apex. Corolla 

 tubular below ; the tube cylindrical, slightly shorter than the calyx, about 

 2i mm. across in the middle, with a minute puberulent elevated ridge 

 under the lateral staminode-lobe ; lobes longer than the tube and about 

 li cm. long, oblong, rounded-obtuse and thinly ciliated at the apex, white, 

 membranaceous, trans[)arent towards the margin, glabrous, loosely nerved, 

 the upper one a little larger. Lip patent, sessile, broadly ovate, about 

 23 cm. Ions, 2 cm. broad, truncato-rounded at the base, truncato-subemar- 

 ginate at the apex, eroso-crispate en the upper margin but even-sided 

 below, thickened longitudinally in the middle jiortion, but menibranaceons 

 on both sides, white, shaded yellow, numerously and divergingly veined 

 scarlet near the centre, the main nerves closely placed in centre, the lateral 

 veins numerous, patulous and delicate ; lateral lobes small, subulato-linear, 

 about fj mm. long. Stamen about 2 cm. long ; filament filiform-linear, 

 flattened but conduplicate, glabrous; anther square-rectangular, truncate at 

 top, auriculatc b.elow, about 7-imm. long, the cells linear, with thick walls; 

 rudimentary stamens 2, erect, oblong, emarginate, glabrous, thick, 2i-3nim. 

 long. Style a little exceeding the stamens, filiform, thinly pubescent to- 

 wards the top, white ; stigma oblongly peltate, with a fissure and ciliated 

 margin. Ovary ellipsoidal, glabroiis, 4J mm. long. 



AJpinia Galaiiga Savat. in linuma's Somoku-Dzusetsn, ed. 2, I. Ibl. 

 10 recto, no. 9, non Sw. 



Alpinia chincnsis Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. p. 20, non Rose. 



Nora. Jap. Kumatalce-ran. 



Icon. Iwasaki's Honzo-Dzufu X. fol. 5 verso-6 recto ; linuma's Somokn- 

 Dzusetsu I. fol. 10 recto. 



Hah. Prov. Kii : Inami, cult. (.7. Matsumnra and S. Oknho ! herb. 

 Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, July 22, 1883). 



iSfative of China ; it was early introduced into this country. It 

 evidently differs from Alpinia chinensis Eosc, to which Franchet errone- 

 ously referred it, as cited above. 



Alpinia (Catimbium) speciosa (Wendl.) K. Schumann Fl. Kaiser- 

 Wilhelmsland p. 29, et in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. (1899) p. 284, tab. 3. 

 fig. AB. 



Zcrumhet speciosum Wendl. (1798). 



Costus Zerumhet Pers. Syn. PI. I. (1805) p. 3. 



Alpinia nutans Eosc. in Transact. Linn. Soc. VIII. (1807) p. 346 ; 

 Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, I. (1810) p. 4; Eann. et Schult. Syst. Veg. I. 



