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rising from the centre of the petioles, lower bracts roundish, upper 

 oblong, wayed, rose-coloured, usually without flowers : flowers 

 green, with a rose-coloured tuft. 



Circar mountains, flowering in the rains. 



(13) C. EECUNAXA. (Roxb.) 

 Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 36. 



Spec. Chae. Eoot with oval tubers : leaves radical, 2 ou each 

 side of the spike^ with the lower sheathing part of the petioles 

 recUnate, oblong, acute : petioles deeply channelled : spike rising 

 from the centre of the leaves, loosely imbricated above with large, 

 ovate, coloured bracts : flowers small, duU dark pink, lower segment 

 of the inner border tinged with yellow. 



Hindostan, flowering in the rains. 



GENUS VI. ALPINIA. 



Monandria SKonogynia. Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. Named in honour of Prosper Alpini, an Italian, botanist. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx tubular, loose, bursting at the apex : tube 

 of the corolla short, outer segments of the limb equal, inner lateral 

 ones tooth-shaped or none, lip large, flattened out, entire, or 2 — 3- 

 lobed : filament linear, not produced beyond the cells of the emar- 

 ginate muticous anther : ovary inferior, 3-celled, ovules numerous, 

 horizontal, anatropa,l : 'style fijiform, passing between the cells of 

 the anther : stigma oapitately three cornered : capsule baccate, 3- 

 celled, indehiscent : seeds many or few, l>y abortion, ariUate. — 

 Herbs : roots thick, tuberous, horizontal, stems many, perennial : 

 leaves bifarioils : sheath cleft, ligulate : inflorescence terminating 

 the stem, panicled or loosely racemose or spiked. 



(1) A. Eheedh. fE. W.) 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vi. and t. 2026. 



Xkgra/v. Eheede Mai. xi. t. 14. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves sub-sessUe from broad lanceolate obtuse to 

 lanceolate cuspidate : panicle termiaal, -erect, many-flowered : outer 

 series linear, obtuse, somewhat concave. Up unguiculate, sub-orbi- 

 cular, 2-l6bed, claw with two dilatations at the base, each ending 

 in a subulate point : capsules slightly downy. 



Malabar. Courtallum. 



