K EMPFERIA PANDURATA. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
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SECT. II. SCITAMINES. 
filament extended beyond the anther, apex lobed. 
leaves radical, broad-lanceolate, 
lip broad, panduriform, trilobate. 
Syy.—Manja-kua, Rheede, Hort. Mal. v. xi. tab. 10. 
Zerumbet claviculatum, Rumph, Amb. v. tab. 69. 
Curcuma rotunda, Lin. Sp. Pl. 1. 3. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. 14, 
Keempferia ovata, 
Gey. Cuar.—Anther double ; 
Spxc. Cuar.—Spike central ; smooth, with long grooved petioles ; filament bilobate ; 
Rose. in Lin. Trans. y. viii. p- 351. v. xi. 274, 
Keempferia Pandurata, Roab. in As. Res. v. xi. 328. 
Keempferia Pandurata, Bot. Reg. vol. ii. No. 173. 
Keempferia Pandurata, Loddiges’ Bot. Cab. No. 587. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Roots perennial, tuberous, fusiform, deep orange within; stem short, composed of the sheathing petioles of the 
leaves, about two feet high, purple towards the base; leaves broad-lanceolate, smooth on both sides ; petioles nearly 
as long as the leaves, deeply channelled ; spike rising in the centre of the leaves from a common imbricated sheath, 
composed of a double series of bractes, the outer ones long, lanceolate, pale green; the inner ones narrower, 
and containing a congeries of flowers rising in succession by one or two at a tim 
superior, membranaceous, lobed at the apex, inflated, pale rose-colour, 
lanceolate, pink colour, e; calyx 
sheathing the tube of the corolla one-fourth 
outer limb of the corolla in three lanceolate segments, 
the upper one rather the largest, pale pink; inner limb in three segments, 
its length ; tube of the corolla very long, smooth, faux hairy ; 
the two lateral ones ovate, equal, 
rose-colour, the lower or lip much larger, broad, panduriform, or rather trilobate, with the middle lobe slightly 
notched, striated in the centre, and deep purple round the margin ; filament extending beyond the anther in an 
oblong process, terminating in two short blunt lobes; anther two-lobed, oblong, crossed in front by an horizontal 
helmet-shaped process; style slender, with two glandular processes at the base, very long and subulate ; stigma 
concave, lobed, and slightly ciliated at the margin; germen ovate, smooth, three-celled ; seeds numerous. 
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OBSERVATIONS. 
One of the first results of the new arrangement of the Scitaminee, was the reference of this singular plant, 
which had not before been ascertained, to its proper genus. Our first knowledge of it is from the Hortus Malabaricus 
of Van Rheede, vol. xi. tab. 10, where it is given under its Indian name of Manja-kua, and to this Linnzeus referred 
for his Curcuma rotunda. Convinced, however, of its being a Keempferia, I enumerated it amongst is beet 
in my arrangement of Monandrian Plants, (Trans. Lin. Soc. vol. viii.) age the name of K. ovata, since which a 
very good figure has been published by Dr. Roxburgh, (in Asvat. Res. ot xi. P. se) mae the He of K. pandurata, 
which he rightly conjectures to be the same (notwithstanding some ooo variations a os description) as ey pe 
a name which, in deference to him, and to prevent mistakes, Ihave, in a paper in Lin. Trans. (vol. Xi. p. 274,) 
already withdrawn. fae 
This plant is a native of Sumatra, but has been in oe country ied years. Its long fusiform roots ae 
probably, like most of the tribe, possessed of medicinal properties, although it does not appear they have been tried. 
REFERENCES. 
.. Germen and scape, from which the flowers rise in succession. 
. Outer and inner bractes. 
Lateral sections of inner limb of corolla. 
Lip. 
Germen, tube, and outer limb of corolla. 
Filament, with its bifid apex, anther and stigma, (magnified.) 
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Germen, with its glandular processes, style and stigma. 
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. Calyx. 
