RENEALMIA FASCICULATA. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
SECT. II. SCITAMINER. 
Gey. 
Cuar.—Filament none; anther attached by a short ligament to the base of the upper segment of the 
exterior limb of the corolla; style tubular; stigma bluntly triangular, peltate, perforate. 
Spec. Cuar.—Spike radical, lateral; bractes sessile, fasciculate; stems erect; leaves broad-lanceolate, alternate ; 
lip large, broad, white, with a yellow cloud down the middle. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Roots composed of large ovate tubers, with numerous annular divisions; stems erect, three feet in height, 
leaves broad-lanceolate, equilateral, sessile, finely nerved, rising from between two smaller leaves; spike radical, 
lateral, bractes sessile, many-flowered; flowers in fascicles; corolla tubular, expanding into a double limb ; 
outer limb in three sections, lanceolate, acute, the upper or middle section antheriferous at the base; inner 
limb or lip broad ovate, crenate at the margin, striate, white, with a yellow tinge down the middle ; filament 
none, anther double, linear, naked, inserted by a slender ligament into the faux of the corolla, and attached 
to the base of the middle section of the outer limb; germen and fruit unknown. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
This very curious Scitaminean Plant is known to us only by a drawing made at Lucknow, by a native 
artist, from the living plant, for the Right Hon. the Earl of Mountnorris, by whose obliging permission 
we are enabled to give a figure of it. Although from the want of the necessary details, we are not 
enabled to decide on this plant with the same confidence as on others of the same group, yet we have 
little doubt it will be found to belong to. this genus, the plant in its general habit not according with 
that of Alpinia, and the anther appearing to be attached by a slender ligament to the faux of the corolla, 
at the base of one of the segments of the exterior limb. We are not however, without hopes, from the 
investigations which are now making in India, and particularly from the journey of our liberal and highly 
respected friend, Dr. Wallich, into the Burmese territory, on which he departed from Calcutta in the month 
of July 1826, that both this and many other plants yet but imperfectly known, will be discovered, and finally 
transmitted to Europe; and it is with a view of promoting these and similar inquiries, that we have been 
induced to give figures of several plants which we have not yet seen in their living state, in the course 
of the present work. 
