— 108 — 



a'. Sheaths and petioles erect elongate (100—125 mm.) forming a 

 short stem. Spike peduiicled.. Flowers subconcolorous, violaceous ; 

 cruciate, crest of the anther oblong, entire revolute: K. atrovirens. 



b'., Sheaths very short, stem wanting or very short, inflorescence 

 sessile, bracts very small, leaves lanceolate spreading with undu- 

 late margin, flower symmetrical, petals patent, longer than lip and 

 çtaminodes, staminodes white, lip violaceous, crest of the anther 

 large and wide, shortly bifidatthetop: K. angustiolia {=K. undulata). 



Kaempferia Galanga L; Linn. Hort. Cliff. 1787, t 3; Blume 1827, 

 47; Rose. 1828 t 92; Bot, mag. 1805, 21, t. 805: type; Roxb. Fl.ind l820, 

 15; Wight Ic. 1853 VI t. 899; Gagnepain, 1908, 49.— A', sess/7/s Koenig in 

 Retz (teste K. Schumann).— A'a/syu/j Kelongu Rheed 1697, 11, \ A\.— Son- 

 corns Rumph. Herb. amb. 1740, V 175 t, 69 f 2 — Ara-orchis tuberosa 

 platyphyllos Burm. zeyl.— Colchicum indicum platyphyllum. Herrn, zeyl 54. 



I examined a flowering specimen, cultivated in Djocdja, which 1 owe 

 to the kindness of Mr. Hj. Jensen from Klaten, and another cultivated in 

 a village in Bzg. 



The latter has widely elliptic leaves (95 X 55) with rounded base 

 and a very short acute deltoid tip; the first has much larger, rotund lea- 

 ves; in both these are woolly beneath and are surrounded by a conspi- 

 cuous membranous, undulated redbrown margin (margin 0,75 mm. broad) 

 as in K. niarginata, which should not be found in K. galanga according 

 to Baker and Schumann. 



The flowers also differ in colour from the drawing of Roscoe and from 

 the description of Baker, for there are two cuneate violet spots in the middle 

 of the labellum which decur into elevated lines to the mouth of the corolla, 

 bordering a concave white bar in the middle of the claw. The segments 

 of the lip are obovate and entire or threefid, with short rounded lobes. 

 The calyx is longer than half the tube (30X7) lanceolate with two fine 

 teeth. Corolla tube 45—50 mm., lobes 25 mm. Labellum 23 mm. long 25 

 broad, staminodes obovate 22X14. 



Probably both specimens belong to the var. latifolia (Donn) Baker K. 

 Sch. I.e. = A' latifolia Donn., Bl. Enum. 07. They agree, however, rather 

 well with Gagnepain's description who mentions also the red border of the 

 leaves; and 1 did not see any certain specimens of the type. The specimen 

 collected by Kds in Celebes (sterile) has rather different leaves, elliptical 

 acute at both ends (120X60), not distinctly brown bordered and might 

 belong to the genuine form as does probably the original drawing in Hortus 

 Cliffordtianus, where the leaves have the same shape. 



The inflorescence of K. Galanga is a head ; Roxbrugh calls it a fascicle, 

 composed of smaller fascicles, at all means it is nota spike. It is placed on the 



