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INDIAN MEDIOINAT, PUNTS. 
1249 . Alpinia Galavga, Sw., ii.f.b.i., vi., 253 . 
Sans. : — Durapar&stma, lullinjana. 
Vern. : — Kulanjdn, bara-kulanjan, Bare va malabari-pan-ki- 
jar (H.) ; kulinjan (B.) ; Kolinjan (Gup) ; Koshtdculinjdn (Mar.) ; 
Kunjar, kathi (Sind.) ; Khulanjdne-qasbi, khulanjdn-e-kabir 
(Arab.) ; Khusrave-darue-kalan (Pers.) ; Pera-rattai (Tam.) ; 
Pedda-dumpa-rdsh-trakam (Tel.); Peraratta (Mai.); Dumpa- 
rasmi (Kan).) ; Padagoji (Burm.). 
Hahitat ' — Throughout India. 
Root-stock perennial, tuberous, slightly aromatic. Leafy stem 
0-7ft. Leaves l-2ft. by 4-6in., green and glossy on both sides, 
oblong-lanceolate, glabrous beneath. Panicle copiously com- 
pound, (dense-fid) f-lft. ; rachis densely pubescent, branches 
numerous, short ; pedicels ^-4in. ; bracts small, ovate. Flowers 
small. Calyx greenish-white, 4in. oblique at the throat. Corolla- 
segments i-Jin., linear, oblong, greenish-white. Lip obovate- 
clawed, emarginate, white-veined, with lilac, ^in., with a pair of 
linear, subulate, ascending, reddish glands at the base of the 
claw. Stamen arcuate, shorter than the lip. Ovules 1-2 in 
a cell. Fruit orange-red, roundish, about |in. diam. 
Uses : — The rhizomes of this species are aromatic, pungent, 
and bitter, and are used in the form of an infusion in fever, 
rheumatism, and catarrhal affections. As a drug, they are 
supposed to improve the voice. The aromatic tubers are some- 
times used as carminative or fragrant adjunct in complex pre- 
scriptions, but they have nothing peculiar in their properties 
or action. (U. C. Dutt.) How far these properties may have 
been intended to be attributed to this root-stock or should 
have rather been given to A. oflicinarum, cannot be accurately 
determined. The statements of Indian authors have to be 
accepted for the present, but it seems probable that future en- 
quiry may show that, while both the greater and the lesser 
galangals are regularly imports into India, as far as their 
medicinal properties are concerned, the former is only used 
as substitute for the latter, being commercially less valuable 
and less active in its therapeutic properties. It is, however, 
