418 SCITAMINE. 
Calyx subinfundibul. infra medium gracilis, bipartitis lacinia 
alter. bifida. 
Per. exter. tubo ealycis longitudine gracil. laciniis 3, ob- 
longis obtusis tertio (postico) majora. 
Labellum post anthesin arcte inyolutum marscescens maxi- 
mum subcochleatum. 
Filamentum concavum dilatatum intus pubescens, Anth. 
magna loeulis distantibus (stylo interjecto connectivo postice 
in laminam latam product, triloba, lobo medio majora) quam 
stigma recumbent. 
The stigma or apex of the style is very large bell-shaped, 
with a ciliate edge insidens to the stigma, the style is suddenly 
contracted into a fine filiform shape, exactly enough repre- 
senting one of the bell-polypes. 
Ovarium hispidum dense 3-loculare, loculis pluri-ovulatis, 
Stam. sterilia lateri uno alte coalita, ochroleuca. 
It would appear to be an Amomum of Endlicher’s Genera 
Plantarum, but the genera of this family are not precisely dis- 
criminated. 
The anther is really didymous, I see no processes at its 
base. 
Lip in estivation with the one side rolled and the other 
overlapping it, the central plaited part incurved, it is subbi- 
lobed with a whitish fundus, fleshy, as it were bigibbus, and 
pubescent, lobes of anther or connectivo parallelogramic 
erect, central twice larger, filament very short. 
Odour when fresh bruised, pleasant, that of the marcescent 
parts unpleasant. 
Has. Malaeca at Phinghull Malim. 
Oss. Sp. perpulchra aromatic somewhat like fresh pepper. 
It agrees with the character of Alpinia in Endl. Genera, 
but its habit is quite different, Endl. sections are here very 
ill distinguished. 
Can it be Alpinia magnifica, Phzenomeria of Lindley. 
