60 MONA^DRiA MONO&yNiA. Alptnia. 



and I cannot well say to which it most properly belongs. — Perispenn 

 white, friable, and very hard. — Embryo simple, dull white, (canus,) 

 roundish in the body of the perisperm, and with the narrow, conic 

 radicle, passing through it and pointing to the umbilicus. 



ISiote by Mr. Cohbrooke. '' The root of this plant being ascer- 

 " tained to be the Galanga major of the druggists, comformably with 

 " what has been said of it by liumphius, there is no doubt of its being 

 ' " Kholinjan of the Arabs, termed in H/ndee Culinjan. In Sanskrit it 

 *' is called Culanjana, according to one authority, (the Rajnig'^aiua ;) 

 *' but Sugandha-vaciia, sweet-scented i\corus; as also Makabhari- 

 *' z^acAfl, according to another Indian treatise, (the B/iava-pracum.) 

 " 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 immediLitely from it." 



2. A. Allus:has. Roscoe in Trans. Lin?}. Sor. 8. 346. 



Leaves lanceolar, polished. Panicle terminal. Lip bifid ; lobes 

 retuse. Capsules spherical, (black,) one-va1ved, many-seeded. 



Hellenia Alliighas. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. ffilld. 1. 4. 



jSIala-inschi-kua, Rheed. mal. W.p. 29. t. 14. 



Sans. cTITT^ "» Tar^^ka. 



JBeng. TarMk«, orTara. 



This plant is common near Calcutta, in low moist places, among 

 brush wood. Flowering time the beginning of the rainy season. 



Root tuberous, biennial, or perennial, horizontal, brovvnish, with 

 many pretty thick fibres, considerably aromatic. — Stem erect, sUghtly 

 compressed, entirely covered with the sheaths of the leaves; from three 

 to six feet high. — Leaves alternate, bifarious, petioled, oblong, end- 

 ing in a fine twisted point ; both sides smooth, and glossy; the under 

 side paler colour; veins numerous, straight, exceedingly fine, going off 

 at an acute angle ; generally aboiit a foot long, and four inches b.-oad. 

 — Petioles sheathing with a stipulary rounded process rising above the 

 insertion of the leaf. — Panicle terminal, bending slightly to one side. 

 — jF/ot4/Cr5 numerous, in succession, large, of a beautiful rose colour, 

 inodorous. — Calyx superior, gibbous, fleshy, generally two or thrae- 



