106 THE SCITAMINEÆ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
later botanists added more of this very distinct genus, so that it 
was absolutely proposed to amalgamate the two. The genus 
Kæmpferia may be thus defined. Her 
rhizome often tuberous and aromatic, stem short or produced, 
petaloid crest. Anther thin and usually concealed in the tube, 
linear not versatile and dorsifixed. Style slender. Capsule (rarely 
produced) oblong thin walled. 
Distribution: India, Burmah, Siam and Cochin China. 
The thin flat staminodes usually of the same color as the 
den behind the staminodes and lip. The entrance to the nectary 
is very small and is partly blocked by the crest of the anther. 
: . The genus can readily-be divided into sections, viz. 1. Sincor- 
us (Horan) stem very short, flowers appearing with the leaves. 
This includes Ж. Galanga L sometimes cultivated here y the 
Chinese ; K. marginata Carey. К. speciosa Bak. К. Roscoeana 
Wall; natives of Burmah. K. elegans Wall. Siam (Curtis.) 
and Burmah. Ж. angustifolia Roxb. Bengal, also Siam (Dr. 
Keith.) А, ovalifolia Burmah and Siam, also collected in Malacca 
by Col. Farquhar according to Baker, but doubtless cultivated 
there. K. pulchra Ridl. Lankawi and Siam. K. giauca Ridl. 
Siam. K. undulata Teysm, locality unknown. 
ct: Protanthium. Leaves and flowers appearing at 
different times, including only K. rotunda L “ Kunchur” of the 
Malays only cultivated here, an? К. candida Wall. of Burmah. 
Sect. 3. Monolophus ; with an erect rarely prostrate leafy 
stem. K. linearis Wall, К, secunda Wall. K. sikkimensis Kin 
of India. K. macrochlamys Baker of Burmah and K. decus-sylvae 
Hallier of Borneo, a peculiar prostrate form. 
ect. 4. Stachyanthesis with a leafy stem and flowers in 
a long spike. K. scaposa Benth. India. 
