106 THE SCiITAMINEZ 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 
Kempferia may be thus defined. Herbs with an underground 
rhizome oftea tuberous and aromatic, stem short or produced, 
rarely absent. Leaves thin in texture few or several. Inflore- 
scence spicate subterminal with thin lanceolate bracts. Flowers 
showy thin textured and very fugacious, opening singly violet 
or white. Calyx short cylindric. Corolla-tube long slender 
lobes narrow linear inconspicuous. Staminodes very large round- 
ed horizontal clawed, forming with the rounded bilobed lip a 
nearly circular flower. Stamen short thin flat with a long narrow 
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 
lip and lying in the same plane form the conspicuous part of the 
flower, the petals being much smaller and usually reflexed, hid- 
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 #. Galanga L sometimes cultivated here by the 
Chinese ; A. marginata Carey. K. speciosa Bak. K. Roscoeana 
Wall; natives of Burmah. KX. elegans Wall. Siam (Curtis. ) 
and Burmah. A. angustifolia Roxb. Bengal, also Siam (Dr. 
Keith.) A. ovalifolia Burmah and Siam, also collected in Malacca 
by Col. Farquhar according to Baker, but doubtless cultivated 
there. A. pulchra Ridl. Lankawi and Siam. #. giauca Ridl. 
Siam. A. undulata Teysm, locality unknown. 
Sect 2. Protanthium. .Leaves and flowers appearing at 
different times, including only A. rotunda L “‘ Kunchur” of the . 
Malays only cultivated here, and A. candida Wall. of Burmah, 
Sect. 3. AMonolophus ; with an erect rarely prostrate leafy 
stem. #. linearis Wall, K. secunda Wall. K. sikkimensis King 
of India. K. macrochlamys Baker of Burmah and K. decus-sylvae 
Hallier of Borneo, a peculiar prostrate form. 
Sect. 4. Stachyanthesis with a leafy stem and flowers in 
a long spike. A. scaposa Benth. India. 
