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ALPINIA. calcarata. 
Upright flowering Alpinia. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNI4A. 
Nat. ord. Cann. Jussieu gen. 62. 
SciraMiInex. ‘Brown prod. 305. 
ALPINIA. Cal. superus, tubulosus, brevior, ore subtrilobo. Cor, 
tubulosa limbo duplici; exteriore tripartito subequali: interiore dissimili, 
inter Jaterales exteriorum inserto, unilabiato basi utrinque denticulo 
aucto. Séamen fauci intra laciniam anticam exteriorum — insertum. 
Filamentum lineare extra antheram non elongatum:  Anthera fila" 
mento .aduata, | biloba lobis | distinctis, parallelis, ‘bilocularibus, per 
axin longitudinalem: dehiscentibus, suture: marginibus- inflexis dissepi- 
. mento, demim obsoleto, insertis. Po/len globosum, leye. .. Corpuscula 
2 (stamina sterilia) parya teretiuscula basin styli stipantia.. Germ. 3-loc. 
loculis polyspermis, ovulis angulo interno gemino ordine affixis. Stylus 
filiformis longitudine filamenti in sulco anthere receptus. Stig. dilatatum 
cavum obsoleté 3-gonum. Caps, 3-loc., 3-valy., polysperma,. carnosa. 
Sem. subrotunda, mutud pressione angulata, arillata. Inflor. paniculata 
y, laxé racemosa, caulem terminans. 
- Herbe aromatice. Radix perennis sepids tuberosa, repens. Caulis 
simplex. Folia simplicia, 1-nervia; venis acutangulis, creberrimis, 
simplicissimis; petiolo vaginanti, vagind hinc fissili, ord indd ligulam 
(Graminearum instar ) podage: Bractee communes caduce; partiales 
spathacee, cucullate. Brown loc. cit. 305, 306, (Excerptim é charactere 
ordinis). 
A. calcarata, nectario ovato-oblongo apice semibifido, foliis ensiformi- 
bus, capsula hirta. Roscoe in linn. soc. transact. 8. 347. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2. 1. 5. 
Renealmia calcarata. Andrews’s reposit. 421. 
Globba erecta. Redouté liliac. 174. 
Radix fibrosa, repens, caules plures, pedales, teretes, superne versits pus 
bescentes, crassitudine digiti minoris. Foliorum lamina angustiis lanceolata, 
lana. Inflorescentia erecta, composito-racemosa; pedunculis 2-3-floris, 
sei iparales subdiaphane, albicantes. Flores albo, luteo, et puniceo 
vari. (Ex Redouteo.) 
LL A 
The Scitaminee of Linnzus correspond with the Canne 
of Jussieu. From the last Mr. Brown has drafted a portion 
of the genera, and collected them into a !separate order, 
to which he restores the appellation of Scitaminee, pre- 
fixing that of Cannee, to the small assemblage which 
is left. The first he characterizes by the aroma inherent 
in the plants which compose it, an interior and exterior co- 
