Kfempjeria. monandria monogynia. 17 



long-, slender, cylindric, nearly erect, obliquely funnel-shap- 

 ed towards the mouth ; border double, both three-parted. 

 Exterior divisions drooping, linear, with margins involute, 

 pure white. Interior border, the two uppermost divisions 

 erect, lanceolar, acute ; colour also white, with the margins 

 slightly tinged with purple ; the remaining inferior one is 

 divided into two broad, obcordate, deflected lobes, of a deep 

 purple colour, particularly towards the centre, and base. 

 Nectarial filaments of Kihiig as in K. Galanga. Filament 

 short, erect, broad, inserted on the base of the uppermost 

 two interior divisions of the corol. Anther linear, and 

 enlarged with an ovate, two-forked, coloured, somewhat 

 recurved crest. Germ ovate. Style filiform. Stigma funnel- 

 shaped. 



Obs. Woodville observes, at page 302 of his Medical 

 Botany, that the roots of Zedoaria longa, and rotunda are 

 both produced by the same species of plant, and are indis- 

 criminately used in the shops: the former, he says, are 

 brought to us in oblong pieces, about the thickness of the 

 little finger; two or three inches in length, bent, rough, and 

 angular ; the latter are roundish, about an inch in diameter, 

 of an ash colour on the outside, and white within. I have 

 never met with any of the roots of this plant that agree with 

 his description of the long sort, and they are too small for 

 the round ; so that I must conclude they are the produce of 

 some other plant : at the same time Dr. Woodville's observa- 

 tions on the same page, give me reason to think my Curcuma 

 Zedoaria may be the plant, which yields this round sort of 

 Zedoaria. 



3. K. angustifolia . R. 



Leaves radical, linear-lanceolate, waved. Spikes hid in 

 the centre of the leaves. Upper two segments of the inner 

 border of the corol linear, oblong-, obtuse. 



Hind. K?mjan-boora, also Mad?Mi?rb?shcr. 



A native of Bengal. Flowering time the rainy season. 

 vol. i. B 



