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feet, leafy in the upper part : leaves lanceolar, smooth on both sides, 

 margins white and somewhat callous: panicl« terminal, erect, oblong, 

 branched : flowers greenish-white : fiiTiit obovate, smooth, deep 

 orange red. 



. "Wag Donger, "Warree Country. Chittagong. Silhet. Flowering 

 April and May. 



(6) A. Malaccbnsis. fRoscoe.) 



Ident. Eoscoe in Trans. Linn. Soc. 8, 345. — Eoxb. 1. c. p. 64. 



Syn. Maranta Malaccensis, Idnn. — Galanga Malaocensis, RumpJi. 

 — A. petiolaris, Soland. 



Migrtm. Bot. Eeg. iv. t. 328. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves lanceolate, petioled, villous beneath : raceme 

 terminal, simple : lip obscurely 3-lobed with two spurs at the base, 

 lateral lobes incurved : capsules obliquely spheroidal : flowers large, 

 pure white with the lip orange-crimson. 



Chittagong, flowering in April and May, 



GENUS VII. KCEMPFEEIA. 

 m:oiiaiidlria Monogpynia. Sex: St/st. 



Deriv. Named after E. Koempfer, a German naturalist. 



Geh-. Chae. Calyx tubular, cleft, tube of the coroUa filiform, 

 outer segments of the limb narrow, equal, lateral ones spreading, 

 postioous ones forked, inner ones much larger, lip flat : filaments 

 short, keeled, expanded above tiie muticous anther into a 2- cleft 

 crest : ovary inferior, 3-ceUed : ovules numerous, horizontal, ana- 

 tropal : style filiform, stigma urceolate, ciliated : capsule 3^elled, 

 3-valved : seeds arillate. — Herbs : bracts usually bifariously imbri- 

 cated, seldom saccate. 



(1) K. EOTtJSBA. fWim.J 



Ideni. Eoxh. flor. Ind. I. p. 16. 



Migrtw. Wight's Icon. t. 2029. — ^Bot. Mag. t. 920. — Eheede 

 Mai. xi. t. 9. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves oblong, coloured : spike radical, appearing 

 before the leaves: lateral lobes of the coroUa obovate-lanceolate, 

 acute : lip deeply 2-cleft, lobes obovate, very obtuse, crest of the 

 anther linear, forked, with a small tooth between : flowers large, 

 purplish-white. 



Malabar. 



