No. 587. 
KSMPFERIA PANDURATA. 
Class, Order. 
MONANDRIA _MONOGYNIA. 
This genus was named by Linnzus in 
honour of Engelbert Kempfer, the cele- 
brated German naturalist and physician. 
He travelled between the years 1683 and 
1694 in Persia, and various parts of the 
East, as. far as Japan. His works are 
greatly esteemed for their accuracy, and 
contain much botanical information, with 
many curious plates from his drawings. He 
died in 1716, aged 65. 
Our present species is a native of Su- 
matra; it was sent by Dr. Campbell to 
Caleutta, whence it has been brought to 
this country. It grows rather more than a 
foot in height, and the flowers are produced 
from the centre of the leaves: they are 
deeply embosomed in a number of bractes, 
which almost conceal their very long tubes : 
they appear in the month of September, 
usually but one at a time, lasting a single 
day, and daily succeeded by another for 
some time. The large lower segment, 
