Maranta.] SCITAMINEA. 1047 
2163, ALPINIA caLcarata Roscoe; F. I. i. 69; F. B. I. vi. 254; 
A. $51. 
In gardens, frequent. 
A herb; leafy stems 2-4 feet high. 
2164, ALPINIA concHigERA Griff.; F. B. I. vi. 253. 
Chittagong. 
A herb; leafy stems 3-4 feet high. 
2165, ALPINIA GALANGA Sw. > FLL 1 60; Fi Be iow. 268; BDs 
A. 8538 
In gardens, frequent. 
A herb ; leafy stems 6-7 feet high. Vernac. Kulanjan. 
2166. Aupinta ALLUGHAs Roscoe; F. I. i. 61; F. B. I. vi. 258; 
EK. D. A. 849 
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N. Bengal; C. Bengal; E. Bengal; Sundribuns. 
A herb; leafy stems 5-6 feet high. Beng. Taro, 
taruko. 
939. Canna Linn. 
ow. 
branched racemes; bracts small, ovate. Sepals 3, small, oblong 
or lanceolate, Petals 8, connate in a corolla with cylindric tube ; 
lobes lanceolate, equal. Stamens, 1 partially perfect, all connate 
below in a ey lindric, corolla-like tube ; lobes unequal, all petaloid, 
one with a 1-celled anther adnate to one of its edges, the others 
similar but larger and sterile. Carpels 3, connate in a 3-celled 
ovary; ovules numerous in each cell; style adnate below to the 
staininal tube, free above; stigma capitate. Frwit globose, echi- 
nate, indehiscent or tardily rupturing. Seeds large, globose ; 
embryo straight. 
2167. Canna rnpica Linn. var. orrentatis F. B. I. vi. 260. C. 
indica F.1.i.1; E. D.C. 821. 
In gardens in all the provinces, and in most of them as 
an escape, ; 
A herb; stems 3-4 feet high. Vernac. Sabha-jaya ; 
Sarba-jaya, 
ean 
940, Maranta Linn. 
Herbs with short or tall, leafy stems, and a tuberous or creeping 
rootstock ; leaves more or less distinctly petioled on the sheaths, 
ovate. Flowers in laxly dichotomous, rarely subsimple, terminal 
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