19 



Native of China : it was early introduced into this country. It 

 evidently differs from Alpinia chinensis Rose, to wliich Franchet errone- 

 ously referred it, as cited above. 



Alpinia (Catimbium) speciosa (WencLl.) K. Schumann Fl. Kaiser- 

 Wilhelmsland p. 29, et in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. (1899) \\ 284, tab. 3. 

 fig. AB. 



Zerumhet speciosum Wendl. (1798). 



Costus Zerumhet Pers. Syn. P). I. (1805) p. 3. 



Alpinia oitdans Rose, in Transact. Linn. Soc. VIII. (1807) p. 346 ; 

 Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, I. (1810) p. 4; R«m. et Schult. Syst. Veg. I. 

 (1817) p. 20, Add. p. 562, et Mant. (1822) p. 19; Spreng. Syst. Veg. I. 

 (1825) p. 14; Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. p. 65; Bot. Mag. tab. 1903; Wight Ic. 

 tab. 2027 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 348 ; Baker in Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 VI. p. 256 ; Nichols. 111. Diet. Gard. I. p. 54, fig. 62 ; K. Sch. in Engl. 

 Bot. Jahrb. (18S8) p. 195 ; Peters, in Engl, et Prantl Nat. Pflanzenf. 11. 

 6, p. 23 ; Henry in Trans. Asiat. Soc. Jap. XXIV. Suppl. p. 94, non 

 Globha nutans Linn. 



Hab. FoRBiosA : Kelung ( T. Mahino and C. Owatari ! herb. Sc. Coll. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Oct. 31, 1896; T. 3IaJdno\ herb. ibid. Nov. 1,1896); 

 RyukyiI: Onnah in Isl. Okinawa {J. Mat8umura\ herb. ibid. April 1897); 

 Amami-Oshima : A mountain road near Urakami (/. Katsiige ! Sept. 17. 

 1901). 



Alpinia (Autalpinia) bilamellata Makino sp. nov. 



Rhizome perennial (?) Leafy stem erect. Leaves bifarious, oblong- 

 lanceolate, very shortly petiolate, rather abruptly and diminutively acuminate 

 at the apex, obtuse at the base, entire, margined with very narrow colourless 

 and very minutely scabrous border, but smooth on the lower margin, charta- 

 ceous, quite glabrous on both surfaces, green above, more or less paler 

 beneath, with considerably close-placed veins, about 35 cm. long or more, 

 9 cm. broad or more ; ligule slightly longer than the petiole, ovate, obtuse, 

 subcoriaceous, pubescent outwards; sheath long, coriaceous, smooth-margined. 

 Panicle erect, about 16 cm. long, narrowly pyramidal, loosely branched ; 

 rachis flexuous, softly pubescent above ; branches ascending, softly pubescent, 

 th(? lowest one longest and a])out 4cm. long; bracts caducous; bracteoles 



