18 monandria monogynia. Kampferia. 



Root biennial, tuberous, with numerous ramous fibres 

 from every part. Stems none. Leaves radical, numerous, 

 sessile, linear-lanceolate, keeled ; margins entire, and much 

 waved ; striated lengthways, with darker and lighter colour- 

 ed green, smooth in every part ; from six to eight inches long, 

 and about one broad. Spikes hid in the centre of the leaves, 

 bearing from four to six large, beautiful flowers in succes- 

 sion. Bractes two or three to each flower ; one or two inte- 

 rior embrace the germ laterally, the exterior one is larger, all 

 much pointed, and of nearly the same length. Calyx supe- 

 rior, one-leaved, half the length of the tube of the corol, 

 opening obliquely, (spathe-like.) near the apex, which is a 

 single acute point. Corol; tube very long, and slender, 

 elevating the border about two inches above the earth ; 

 border double, &c. as in K. rotunda. Nectarial filaments of 

 Konig, stamens, and pistil as in the last quoted species. 



Obs. The root is used as a medicine lor cattle, by the 

 people of Bengal. 



4. K. pandurata. R. 



Leaves petioled, broad-lanceolate, smooth. Spike central. 

 Corol, with the upper segments of the inner border obovate, 

 the inferior one much larger, and pandurifonn. 



Zerumbet claviculatum. Rumph.Amb. b.p. 172. t. 69. J". 1 ; 

 and I could almost wish* to quote Manja-kua, Rheed. Mai. 

 11. p. 19. t. ii. although referred to already by Linnaeus for 

 Curcuma rotunda, a plant 1 have never met with, if this be 

 not it. 



From Sumatra, this beautiful plant was sent by Dr. Charles 

 Campbell to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it blos- 

 soms during the rains, chiefly in August. 



Root perennial, tuberous like ginger, but of a tolerably 

 bright yellow colour ; from this, straight, slender, fusiform, 

 paler coloured portions descend deep into the soil. Stems 

 scarcely any ; height of the plant about a foot and a half. 

 Leaves bifarious, petioled, oblong, acute, smooth ; deeper 



