58 MONAXDRIA MONOGYNIA. AlpUlia. 



of them, which they deem wholesome, and nutritious; the dry root 

 does not at all resemble the Costus arabicus of the shops. 



ALPINIA. Schreb. gen. Ao. 5. 



Corolla with the interior border unilabiate. Afii her double, naked. 

 Capsule berried, tliree-celled. Seeds few, or many, arilled. JLmhryo 

 simple, and furnished with both perisperm and vitellus. 



Sect. I. Injiorescence terminal. 



1. A. Galanga. Linn. Sp. PL ed. Willd. 1 . 12. Roscoe in Trans, of 

 Linn. Soc. 8. 345. 



Perennial. Leaves sessile, broad lanceolar. FavicJc terminal. Lip 

 oblong, imguiculale; apex bifid. Capsule obovate, smooth, seeds few. 



Galanga major. Humph, amb. 5. t. QS. 



Sa.is. ^i^^iT^:, KoolunyogcTj UTf^:, DliMmoolo, cft^JRolv 

 Teekshna-mooif/, ^^^cTJ) Koolmmma, HTI'lIT) Soog?/ndha, jfj^x 

 ^CI'^'cfTj ISIi^habJiMro-VMcha. 



Hind. Koolinjan. 



Arab. Kliolinjan or Khoolunjan. 



Br. Charles Campbell, at Bencoolen, sent the roots of these species 

 from thence to the Botanic Garden near Calcutta, where the plants 

 thrive remarkably well, and are in blossom during tlie latter half of 

 the hot season, April and May. Seeds ripen, tiiough rarely, in No- 

 vember. 



Root perennial, tuberous as in ginger, 8cc. possessing a faint 

 aromatic smell, and strong pungent taste, like a mixture of pepper 

 and ginger, accompanied with some degree of bitterness, and now 

 ascertained to be the real Galanga major of the shops. — Stems 

 perennial, or at least more durable than those of iierbaceous 

 plants, nearly erect, round, smooth ; general length, when in flower, 

 about six or seven feet,- and as thick as a slender walking cane. 

 Leaves occupy from the middle of the plant upward; the lower 

 half being inverted in leafless sheaths only; they are short-petioled, 

 bifarious^ lauceolar, margins white and somewhat callous, both sur- 



