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A new species, discovered by N. in the Southern Concan in 1824, 
Colla.---Soonha.--- Khandalla names, 
It grows in great abundance on the marshy parts of Karlee plain, and 
on the west border of Lanowlee grove.— Leaves sessile, stem sheathing broad, 
lanceolate. Scape central, round, smooth, naked, green, tapering, from 12 
to 15 inches long and about as thick as*a slender riding whip, bearing a 
closely imbricated spike of pure white scentless flowers with long tubes, 
sometimes erect, sometimes recurved, outer borderof 3. segments, the lower 
2ofwhich are linear lanceolate, the upper about double their size; inner 
of 3 broad ovate segments alternating with the outer, all pure white, also 
the anther which is sessile in the centre, and bent from the broad segment 
ofthe outer border. Flowers in July and September. 
677. ALPINIA. Linn. Monandria Monogynia.. 
In memory of Alpinia, an Italian Physician, who practised at Cairo in the 
17th century. Plum. Gen. ¢. 3. Gaert. Fruct, 1. f. 12. 
~6~-y449, A. Nurans. Rox. Fora. Ind. 1. p. 65. Globba nutans. Persoon. 
Renealmia nutans. Bot. Rep. ¢. 360. Rumph. Amb. 6. ¢. 62.and 63. Bot. 
Mag, é. 1903. Roscoe in Liun. Trans. 8. p. 346. 
Poona Chumpa.—Poon Maga—Nag-Dumnee—Nag-Chumpa.—A_ very 
gaudy plant; native of China and the Eastern Islands, common in gardens. 
Flowers chiefly in the rains, but more or less throughout the year. { 
1450. A. AtLuGcHas. Rox. Flora. Ind. !. p. 61, Linn. Trans. 8. p. 346. 
Hellenia allughas. Will. and Persoon. Heretiera allughas, Rext. Obs. Fasc. 
6.p. 17. ¢. 1. Mala inchi kua. Rheed. Mal. 11. ¢, 14. Bot. Rep. ¢. 501. 
Taraka---Flowers of a beautiful rose colour. S. Concan. N. 
1451. A. Gatanea. Rox. Flora. Ind. 1. p. 59. Maranta galanga. Linn. 
Rumph. Amb. 5. ¢, 63. 
Amomum galanga, Lour. Cochin China. 1. p. 5. where it is cultivated as 
well as wild, and the fresh roots used to sea:on fish, and other economical 
purposes. {tis the Galanga major ot Druggists, 
Koolinjana.—The plant is found throughout the Eastern Islands, also in. 
Southern Concan. N.---Flowers of a pale greenish white. 
1452. A. Catcarata. Rox. Flora. Ind. 1. p. 69. Renealmia calcarata. 
Bot. Rep. t, 421. Globba Erecta Kedouté. Liliac, ¢. 174. Bot. Mag. ¢. 1900. 
Bot. Reg. ¢. 141. 
Native of China, found also indigenous in Southern Concan. N.---Flowers. 
streaked with purple veins, on a yellow ground. 
1453. A. CarDAmomoum. Rox Flora. Ind. 1. p, 70. 
Amomum repens. Rose. Willd. and Sonnerat. Ellettaria cardamomum. Ma- 
tonin Linn. Trans. 10. ¢. 4,and 5. Sonnerat Ind. 2. ¢, 136. Rheed. Mal. 11. ¢. 
4. and 5. Rox. Cor.3. ¢.226. Buchanan’s Journey 2. 336, 510. 538 and 3. 225, 
Matonia. Thomsou’s London Dispensary p. 437. Cardamomum minus. Lon- — 
don and Edinburgh Pharm, 
Ela.—Ailum cheddy.—Elachee—Elah and Eldorah.—Produces the well 
known C.urdamums of commerce; native of the hilly parts of Malabar and 
Travancore. Introduced at Poway in Salsette, cultivated about Soonda 
Soopa, south of Dharwar. (Dr. Lush.) = 
For a particular description of this useful plant, the mode of cultivation 
&c. see apaper by the late Dr. D. White, of this Est. in Linn. Trans. vol. 
10. p. 229. 
1454. <A. NIMMONII. G. 
Stem 4or 5 feet high, annual, round, as thick as a slender walking cane; 
leaves alternate, bifarious, sessile on their stem-clasping sheathes, spikes 
radical, just rising above the grouud at alittle distance from the stem, Cap- 
