1046 BENGAL PLANTS. Costas. 
In all the provinces, except the Sundribuns. 
A herb, with stout, leafy stems, 6-9 feet high. Beng. 
and Hind. Kust, kéu; Santal. Orop. 
938. Alpinia Linn. 
Herbs with tall, leafy stems, pai horizontal rootstocks ; leaves 
oblong or lanceolate. Flowers in terminal racemes or panicles ; 
bracteoles large, sometimes env pak the buds. Sepals 3, con- 
nate in a loosely tubular, 8-toothed calyx. Petals 3, connate in a 
corolla with cylindric tube, rarely exceeding calyx; lobes linear- 
_— or pauses the upper broader and more convex than lateral. 
n 1 perfect; filament flattened; anther-cells diverging at 
ag ne annents with an orbicular crest; lateral staminodes 
minute or obsolete ; lip spreading, often orbicular, with incurved 
margins, sometimes with 2 subulate processes at the base of the 
claw. Carpels 3, connate in a 3-celled ovary ; ovules few or 
on each placenta; style filiform; stigma subglobose. F Fruit 
usually a dry or fleshy berry. Seeds globose or angled 
Buds enclosed in large membranous bracteoles; racemes terminal, 
simple ; ovules many in each cell of ovary; lip with a white margin, 
centre variegated red and yellow :— 
SE green -bracteata, 
white malaccensis. 
Buds not ie in large bracteoles 
Racemes simple or slightly bra naked ; ovules many in each cell of 
ovary ; lip oblong, white, spotted with red and yellow, ee a short 
claw ralearata. 
Racemes in compound terminal panicles; ovules few uaty 2) in 
each cell of ovary : 
Lip with no claw; orbicular, yellowish with red lines and dots 
conchigera. 
Sis with a long 
Lip obovate, nid with lilac veins ; capsule orange-red 
Galanga,. 
Lip cuneate-emarginate, pink ; capsule black Allughas. 
2161. Aupinia BRacTEATA Roxb,; F. I. i. 63; F. B. I. vi. 255. 
Tippera, 
A large herb ; leafy stems 3-6 feet high. 
2162. Auprnia maLaccensis Roscoe; F. I. i. 64; F. B. I. vi. 255- 
N. Bengal, Duars; Chittagong. 
A very large herb; leafy stems 8-10 feet high. 
