MONANDROUS PLANTS. 353 



■€!arn. and Marhat. Culaajan. 

 Malay. Lanquas. Rumph. Lancooa. Howison. 

 The root of this plant being ascertained to be the Galanga major of the druggists, conformably 

 with what haS been said of it by Rumphius, there is no donbt of its being the Khblinjdn of the 

 Arabs, termed in Hindi Culinjan. In Sanscrit it is called Culanjana according to one authority 

 (the Rdjnigkantu ,• ) but Sugand'hd vac'hd, or sweet scented Acorus, as z\5o Mahabhari vachd 

 according to another Indian treatise (the Bhavapracdsa.) If the first name be genuine Sunscritj 

 which is however doubtful, the similar names in other languages, including the European term 

 galanga, must be derived directly or mediately fram it. Note by the President. 



I. Alpinia Allughas. Roscoe in Trans, of Linn. Soc. 8. 346. 



Leaves lanceolar, polished. Panicle terminal. Lip bifid; lobes retuse. 



Capsules spherical, polished, (black,) one-valved, manv-seeded. 

 Hellenia Allughas. Linn. sp. pL ed. Willd. 1.4. 

 Mala-inschi-kua, Rheed. mat. 11. f. 14. 

 Taraca. Asiatick Researches. 4. 240, 

 Tara^ or Tarac of the Bengalese. 



A NATIVE of Bengal, and very common. Flowering time the whole 

 of the rainy season. Seed ripe in Odlober and November. 



ALPINIA ALLUGHAS. 



According to Van Rheede, this plant is callefl by the Brdhmanas, Giri Kolinjana or mountain 

 ginger. This name is obviously taken from the Sanscrit Giri a mountain and Culanjana the Galan. 

 gal, to which indeed the plant is much nearer than to the ginger. 



It has been described by Sir W. Jones, under the Sanscrit name of Taraca, the authority for 

 which I have been unable to discover. The word is indeed Sanserif; and, among other senses, is 

 slated in dictionaries to be the name of a tree: a description which is not reconcileable with this 

 plant. Note by the President. 



3. Alpinia malaccensis. Roscoe in Trans, of Linn. Soc. 8. 345. 



Leaves lanceolar, pctioled, villous underneath. Racemes terminal, simple. 

 Lip broader than long, obscurely three-lobcd, ( lateral lobes incurved into 

 a tube. ) 

 Maranta malaccensis. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 1. 14. 

 Galanga malaccensis, Rumph. amh. 5. /. 71. /. 1, 



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