Alpinia. monandria monogynia. q\ 



in each cell, attached to the middle of the partition. Style 

 filiform. Stigma funnel-shaped, fringed ; while the flower 

 is in vigorous blossom, erect between the lobes of the anther, 

 afterwards recurved under the anther. Ncclarial bodies 

 (of Konig) nearly square, fluted. Germ oblong^smooth, 

 three-celled, with two ovula in each, attached to the axis. 

 Capsule the size of a small cherry, obovate, smooth, deep 

 orange red, three-celled, but entire, as no separation seems 

 to exist, the thin dry cortex crumbles, or breaks to pieces, 

 without any tendency to separate into valves. Seed one, rarely 

 two in each cell, much compressed, size of a grain of black 

 pepper. Aril nearly complete, there being only an opening at 

 the apex, thin, rather fibrous, and of a dull white colour. In- 

 teguments two, or three ; exterior, tough, fibrous, polished, 

 of a dark chesnut colour, a little wrinkled ; inner hard, dark 

 brown ; between the two is a spongy lamina of the same 

 colour, and I cannot well say to which it most properly 

 belongs. Perisperm white, friable, and very hard. Embryo 

 simple, dull white, (eanus,) roundish in the body of the peri- 

 sperm, and with the narrow, conic radicle, passing through 

 it and pointing to the umbilicus. 



Note by Mr, Colebrooke. " The root of this plant being 

 ascertained to be the Galanga major of the druggists, com- 

 formably with what has been said of it by Rumphius, there 

 is no doubt of its being Kholinjan of the Arabs, termed 

 in Ilindee Kulinjan. In Sanskrit it is called Kulanjana, 

 according to one authority, (the Rajnighantu ;) but Su- 

 gand/ia-\nd\a, sweet-scented Acorus; as also Mahabhari- 

 vac/ia, according to another Indian treatise, (the Bhava- 

 pracasa.) If the first name be genuine Sanskrit, which 

 is however doubtful, the similar names in other languages, 

 including the European, must be derived directly, or im- 

 mediately from it." 



2. A. Allughas. Roscoe in Trans. Linn. Soc. 8. 346. 

 Leaves lanceolar, polished. Panicle terminal. Lip bifid • 



