336 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



4. * C. montana (C. pseudomontana, D.). Leafy, stem 

 2 to 3 feet, leaves with petiole as long, tapering to both ends, 

 coma of a beautiful dark rose-colour, waved, flowers yellow, as 

 long as the bracts, two or three to each. Sindarbdr, Sindar- 

 tvdni, lialaonda. 



Konkans (D.). " Grows in great abundance about Malhar in 

 Salsettej tubers round, eaten by the natives when grain is dear" 



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* C. decipiens, tubers small almond-shaped, leaves broad, oval or 

 cordate and cuspidate, spikes 6 to 8 inches, bracts and flowers purple ; 

 lip bifid, with curled margins. Hal wan (D.), Konkan (#.) ; but the 

 species is known only to Dalzell. He says that the earlier spikes are 

 lateral, the later central. 



H. identifies G.'s No. 1474, of which there is neither description 

 nor hab., with * C. strobilifera, bracts all green, flowers pale yellow, 

 about as long, corolla segments small, whitish, lip short, deflexed, 

 roundish. Found otherwise only in lower Bnrmah. 



Many species and vars. of Curcuma are grown in conservatories 

 in England, and probably in gardens in India ; the bracts, perianth 

 and stamens are frequently all equally coloured. 



3. KJEMPFERIA. Galangale. 



K. scaposa (HedycMum s., D.). Leaf-sheaths forming a 

 stem, large, broad, lanceolate, scape 12 to 15 inches high, spike 

 dense with pure white flowers, lip bifid, staminodes large and 

 broad, anther very large, bracts green. Jangli kdcheru, kalla, 

 sunka. " The rice lily." 



Rutnagherry, and (as G. says) very common in the plain between 

 Karli and Lanoli. S. Konkan 'D.). H. has no other hab., and this 

 differs from nearly all the other species of India proper, in having a 

 leafy stem. 



The other three species are stemless ; the first two are not in D. 



* K. galanga, leaves radical roundish, spread flat on the ground, 

 spike central, flowers pure white, fragrant, lip with a lilac throat, 

 deeply bifid, anther crest quadrate, lobes 2, rounded, bracts lanceo- 

 late green. S. Konkan (#.). Plains throughout India (ff.)- CJianda 

 mulct. This is the officinal Galanga. * K. pandurata, leaves large, 

 oblong, erect, spike hidden in the dilated bases of the petiole. " A 

 very beautiful plant, with pale pink-coloured flowers. Konkan and 

 Guzerat " (G.). H. has no other Indian hab., but has " cultivated for 

 its ginger-like rootstock." * K. rotunda, leaves oblong, erect, spikes 

 appearing before the leaves, corolla segments long linear, lip with 

 two deep roundish lobes, flowers of various shades of purple and 

 white, fragrant. Bhui champa. Gardens (D. and (?.). Throughout 

 India, often cultivated (H.). Described and figured by Dr. Kirtikar 

 in B.N.H.8. Journal, vii. 203. 



