572 zingiberacejK. 



2. longijlorus, "Wall. {pi. as. rar. 1, t. 25.) % Rangoon. Fl. largish, pale- 

 yellowish, with a rose-coloured lip. 



3. Jenkinsii, Wall. % Assam. "I Hills about Gowhatti. Flowered in July 



4. affinis. Wall. MSS. % J 1838. 

 MoNOLOPHus, Wall. {Cat. — Endl. gen.pl. I, p. 225.) 



i.secundus. Wall. (Kiimpfera secunda. Wall.; — Roxb. fl. ind. ; ed. 



Carey, 1, p. 19, — Costus secundus, Spreng. syst. 1, p. 13.) %. 



Khassya Mountains, 

 2. linearis. Wall. (Kampfera linearis. Wall. o. c. p. 20. — Costus linearis, 



Spreng. I. c.) % Khassya Mountains. Both these species have been 



introduced repeatedly, but failed. 

 }3.elegans, Wall. (Cat. — Kampfera elegans. Wall. pi. as. rar. 1, t. 27. 



(1830.)— K. Crawfurdii, Wall. MSS. (1827.)— K. Crawfurdiana, 



Wall.; J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 208.) % Pegu. Martaban. Fl. large, 



white-purplish, R. S. 

 Fh^omekia, Lindl. {Nat Syst. p. 446, No. 59.) 



1. magnijica, Lindl. (/, c. — Alpinia ? magnifica, Bojer ; B. M. 59, t. 3192 ; 



— Roscoe Scit.) % Mauritius. Fl. very large, deep rose-coloured. 



Has been introduced into H. C. G. Fl. ? 



* Alpinia Nimmonii, J. Grah. %. Lanowlee Grove near Kandalla. — '-A. 

 Neesuma, J. Grah. ^. Kandalla. Mahableshwur. — A. cernua, Sims. ; 

 B. M. 44, t. 1900. % China. — A. comosa, Jacq. % Caraccas. — A. 

 racemosa, Roscoe. % W. Indies. — A. occidentalis, Swz. %. Jamaica. 

 — A. exaltata, Mey. % Surinam. — A. Antillarum, Rom. and Sch. 

 "21-. W. Indies. — A. penicillata, Roscoe. %. China. — Hellenia coerulea, 

 R, Br. % Tropical N. Holland.—//, chinensis, Willd, 2|. China. — 

 Monocystis abnormis, Lindl. % China. — Peperidium tuhulatum, Lindl. 

 (Alpinia tubulata, Ker. ; B. Reg. 9, t. 777 ; B. M. 51, t. 2494.) % 

 Demerara. 



D. CoSTEiE. 



(Costi, Bl.—Endl. gen. pi. \,p. 225.) 

 Costus, L. {Spreng. syst. 1, p. 4, No. 13 ; — Endl. l. c.) 



1. speciosus, Sm. {Spreng, syst. \, p. 13; — Roxb. fl. ind. \, p. 59; ed. 

 Carey, 1, p. 57. — /. Qrah. Cat. B. pi. p. 208; — Linn. Trans. \,p. 

 249. — C. arabicus L. ? — Hellenia grandiflora, Retz. — Banksia spe- 

 ciosa, Kon. — Amomum hirsutum. Lam. ill. 1, t. 3. — Tsjana speciosa, 

 Gmel. — Tjana-kua, Rheed. II, t. 8. — Herba spiralis hirsuta, /?wjw/>/i. 

 6, t. 64, /. 1.) <s^ Koost. c^"^ Keoo.% Moluccas. Sunda Islands. Co- 

 chin-China. Ava. Ceylon. Coromandel. Kennery Forests. Salsette. 

 Throughout the hilly, wooded parts of the Concan. Bengal, (Seram- 

 pore,) &c. Fl. large, white, inodorous, R. S. ; fr. Sept. and Oct. The 

 fresh roots are almost insipid. The natives make a preserve of them, 

 which they deem wholesome and nutritious. The dry root does not 

 at all resemble the Costus arabicus of the shojjs. {Roxb.) 



