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of Rumphius, Galanga root, = Alpinia Galanga, Sw. Pale 
yellow flowers. Root and seeds used in medicine by the 
Chinese. 
Tavar., Cat., 26, 34:—Kao liang kiang or liang kiang, 
Galanga, Wu114Ms (Chin. Commerc. Guide 120] has 
BE lang kiang, Galangal, the root of Alpinia Galanga. 
The seeds of the same plant are used as aromatic medicine 
under the name of hung tou Kou. Ibid. [p. 84] the same 
seeds are called kao Liang kiang tsz‘.—Hans. [Se. pap., 107, 
252] describes and figures the fruit capsules received from 
Shanghai under the name of kao liang kiang tsz* or hung 
fou Kou. They proved to belong to Alpinia Galanga.— 
P. Sars, 9, 10. 
Another kind of Galanga, the lesser or Chinese Galanga 
of commerce, the Galanga minor of Rumphius, is referred 
in the Flora Hongk. [849] to Alpinia chinensis, Rose., a 
Plant of smaller stature than the A. Galanga, known from 
Canton more than one hundred years ago. But in 1873 
Dr. Hanon described [in the Journ. Linn. Soc, XII] a 
plant which had been presented to him by Tarnror as growing 
Wild and cultivated in the island of Hai nan and called 
liang kiang by the Chinese. Hance named it Alpinia off- 
cinarum, and believes that this yields the true Chinese 
Galanga. It has white flowers, veined with dull red. 
It would seem from the ancient Chinese accounts above 
translated regarding the tu jo and the kao liang kiang, that 
the first is the Galanga minor, the second the Galanga major. 
But probably the above names were applied to different 
Species of Alpinia in various parts of China. Marco Poto 
[Yune’s 2nd ‘edition; Il, 207, 208] mentions the galingale 
produced in immense quantities in the kingdom of Fu ju 
(province of Fu kien), and also in Java [II, 254]. Dr. Fr. 
Hinvn thinks [ China Review, I1, 97] that the name Galanga 
