Alpinia, monandria moncgynia. 



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powers, which expand in succession for a long time after the first, 

 — Calyx superior, colour of the bractes, three-toothed. — Co; 0/ with 

 a double border ; exterior three-parted, pale pink, with deeper rosy 

 apices; upper division oval, incunibent; lower two liuear-oblon«-, 

 revolute, with the apices rounded. Inner lip large, ovate-cordate, ob- 

 scurely three-Iobed, lateral lobes incurved into a large companu-^ 

 late tube ; apex of the interior lobe bifid, margins curled; at the base 

 are two spurs which embrace the base of the st}le, colour of the whole 

 a mixture of deep orange yellow, with a dark crimson ground, and 

 veins. — Germ beneath, oval, hairy, three-celled, with many orw/ain 

 each, attached to the inner edge of the partitions. .SY/g7;irt on the 

 first expansion of the dower erect through the fissure of the apex of 

 the anther ; afterwards, as the style lengthens, its apex becomes ihvo- 

 iiite, and throws the stigma under the anther. — Nectaries (of Konig) 

 two, square, fluted, tleshy bodies within the tube, on the apex oi the 

 germ, embracing the base of the style. 



Obs. I'his is no doubt one of the most gaudy of our East Indian, 

 Scitaminecc. It multiplies itself by the root very fast, grows quickly, 

 xind continues to produce its numerous, large, elegant, drooping pa- 

 nicle?, of beautiful flowers for two months, and more ok less tho 

 whole year round. 



6. A. mutica. R. 



Leaves short-petioled, uarrow-lanceolar, polished. Kacemes erect,^ 

 compound. lAp three-loUed, base spurless. Cupsule buried. Seeds 

 numerous, angidar. Aril evanescent. 



Faund indigenous in the forests of Prince of If ales Island by Mr.. 

 W. Roxburgh, and from thence introduced into the Botanic Garden 

 near Calcutta, where it flowers about the beginning of the rains,. 

 and ripens its seed from October till January. 



Stems numerous, erect, involved in the sheaths of the leaves, from. 

 four to six feet high, generally biennial, as they do not perish till 

 after the seed is ripe. — Leaves alternate, bifarious, short-petioled,, 

 oarrow-lanceolar; acute, polished, and eutire, from ten to twenty-. 



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