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as well as the peduncles ; peduncles short, erect-patent or patulous, not 

 stout, bearing 2-3-crowded flowers towards the top, the inferior ones about 

 1^ cm. long ; bract at the base of the peduncle, 3-6 mm. long except the few 

 lower ones, obovate, enerved, scarious, even and smooth-margined, glabrous, 

 deciduous, the lower ones (a few in number) largest and 6-12^ cm, long, 

 angustato-lanceolate, often thickish-membranaceous ; bracteoles relativel}^ 

 large, orbicular, naviculate, entirely enveloping the flower-bud, rounded at 

 top, entire and smooth edged, but often slightly ciliated at top, glabrous, 

 loosely nerved, deciduous. Flower about 4 cm. long. Calyx laxly sub- 

 campanulato-tulnilar, membranaceous, glabrous, loosely nerved, shortly 3- 

 lobed, about 13 mm. long ; lobes somewhat unequal-sized, oval-ovate or 

 semiorbicular, rounded or emarginate and ciliated at the apex. Corolla 

 tubular below ; the tube cylindrical, slightly shorter than the calyx, about 

 2i mm. across in the middle, with a minute puberulent elevated ridge 

 under the lateral staminode-lobe ; lobes longer than the tube and about 

 li cm. long, oblong, rounded-obtuse and thinly ciliated at the apex, white, 

 membranaceous, transparent towards tlie margin, glabrous, loosely nerved, 

 the upper one a little larger. Lip patent, sessile, broadly ovate, about 

 2§ cm. long, 2 cm. broad, truncato-rounded at the base, usually bifid at 

 the apex, suberoso-crispate on the upper margin but even-sided below, 

 thickened longitudinally in the middle portion, but membranaceous on 

 both sides, white, shaded yellow, numerously and divergingly veined scarlet 

 near the centre, the main nerves closely placed in centre, the lateral 

 veins numerous, patulous and delicate ; lateral lobes small, subulato -linear, 

 about 5 mm. long. Stamen about 2 cm. long ; filament filiform-linear, 

 flattened but conduplicate, glabrous ; anther square-rectangular, truncate at 

 top, auriculate below, about 7imm. long, the cells linear, with thick walls; 

 rudimentary stamens 2, erect, oblong, emarginate, glabrous, thick, 21-3 mm. 

 long. Style a little exceeding the stamens, filiform, thinly pubescent to- 

 wards the top, white ; stigma oblongly peltate, with a fissure and ciliated 

 margin. Ovary ellipsoidal, glabrous, 4A mm. long. 



Alpinia Galanga Savat. in linuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu, ed, 2, I. fol. 

 10 recto, no. 9, non Sw. 



Alpinia chinensis Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap, II. p. 20, non Rose. 



Nom. Jap. Kumatahe-ran. 



Icon. Iwasaki's Honzo-Dzufu X. fol. 5 verso -6 recto ; linuma's Somoku- 

 Dzusetsu I. fol. 10 recto. 



Hah. Prov. Kii : Inami, cult. (J. Matsumura and S. Vlcuho ! herb. 

 Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, July, 22, 1883). 



