Kcempferia. monandria monogynia. 15 



KjEMPFERIA. Linn. gen. pL ed. Schreb. No. 9. 

 Corolla with a long-, slender tube, and both borders three- 

 parted. Anther double, with a two-lobed crest. Capsule 

 three-celled, many-seeded. 



1. K. Galanga. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 1. 15. 



Leaves sessile, round-ovate-cordate. Spikes central. Upper 

 segments of the inner border of the corol oval. 



Katsjula Kelengu. Rheed. Mai. 11. p. 81. t. 41. 



Alpinia sessilis. Kon. in Retz. Obs. 3. p. 62. 



Soncorus. Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 173. t. 69. f. 2. 



Sans. Chwndra-mooh'ka. 



A native of various parts of India, and common in gar- 

 dens also. Flowering time the rainy season. 



Root biennial, tuberous, with fleshy fibres from the tubes. 

 Stem none. Leaves radical, petioled, spreading flat on the 

 surface of the earth, round-ovate-cordate, between acute and 

 obtuse ; margins membranaceous, and waved ; upper surface 

 smooth, deep green; below taper and somewhat woolly; 

 streaked lengthways with ten or twelve slender lines. Pe- 

 tioles hid in the earth; in short they are only cylindric 

 sheaths embracing those within, and the fascicle of flowers, 

 their mouths being crowned with a membranaceous process. 

 Flowers collected in small fascicles, from six to twelve, with- 

 in the sheaths of the leaves, expanding in succession; pure, 

 pellucid white, except a purple spot on the centre of each of 

 the divisions of the inner border, or lip. Bractes three to 

 each flower; a larger exterior; and two within at the sides; 

 all are linear, acute, membranaceous, and half the length of 

 the tube of the corol. Calyx length of the bractes. Corol; 

 tube long, filiform ; border double, both three-parted. Ex- 

 terior divisions linear, acute ; interior, upper two divisions 

 ovate, erect ; under one expanding, two-parted, with lobes 

 bifid. Filament short, apex two-parted, and recurved. An- 

 ther replete with white pollen, crowned with a bidentate 



