tecte. Spica imbricato-bracteata, pluriflora ; 
73 
"4 KEMPFERIA pandurata. 
Sumatra Kempferia. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA 
Nat. ord. Cannm. Jussieu gen. 62. 
. .!>.Scrraminem. Brown prod.305." ~ 
KEMPLPERLA, Anthera duplex. Filam. extra antheram elone 
gatum, apice bilobatum. Corolle laciniw lineares acute. Roscoe in 
Lrans. linn, soc. 8. 351. : 4 
Herb‘ acaules. Rhizoma tuberoso-ovatum, carnosum, bulbiceps, 
sobolibus: biennibus prorepens. \ Folia radicalia, bifaria. Inflor. ra- 
dicalis, bracteato-spicata, sepits centralis. Cal. superior, subcylindri- 
cus, ore arctato inequalitér diviso. Corolle tubus insigniter elongatus 
gracilisque ; labellum non resupinatum, magnum bilobatum, prestans 
colore. ‘Trunculi thalamei subulati. Stigma infundibuliforme. Germ. - 
‘S-loc., loculis polyspermis: ovula annexa axi fructis. Vers. ex angl. 
Roxb. 
. 
K. pandurata, foliis petiolatis, ovali-lanceolatis, spica centrali, laciniis: 
2 summis limbi interioris obovatis, obtusis; labello panduriformi. Lr 
angl. Roxb. 7 : 
Kempferia pandurata. Roxb. in Asiat. research. 11. 328. £. 2. (edit. 
Lond.) Roscoe in Trans. linn. soc. 11. 274. RIAs yor: ” 
Kampferia ovata. Roscoe in Trans. linn. soc. 8. 351. ad 
Curcuma rotunda. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 3. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 14. 
Zerumbet claviculatum, . Rumph, amb. 5, t. 69. fig. err 
Manja-Kua. Rheede mal. 11. t. 10; (innuentibus Roxb. et Rosc.) | 
Rhizoma flavo-carnosum aromaticum radiculas fibrilliferas crassas strictas 
= 
fasciculato-demittens. Folia bifaria, sesqui-bipedalia, erecta ; petioli znvo- 
luto-canaliculati, bast complexo-vaginantes rubicundi, vaginis radicalibus 
cincti, intits trans medium membrana ochreati; lamine laxé nervose, abruptiis 
acuminate, aristate, 3-4 uncias late, subtis lanugine rard decidua con- 
sperse, supra efflorescentid densa minuté albida er lentem vitream manifesta 
joes singulatim expandentes. 
Cal. vald? brevior tubo. Cor. 2-3-uncialis, albo-incarnata, venis roseo-puni= 
cantibus picta; tubus duplo longior limbo, erectiusculus, albus, intts pilosus 3 
limbus nutans, 6-partitus, campanulato-semiringens, laciniz 3 exteriores 
angustiores oblonge 3-nerves isometre, media summa lanceolata mucronata 
latior 2 aliis linearibus obtusulis ‘subjectis dorso labelli ; 3 interiores latiores, 
2 laterales superiores obovate subbreviores, una inferior labellum omnibus 
crassius, % parte majus, porrecto-depressum, carnosum, firmum, laté ob- 
longum, involuto-concavum, corrugatum, unciam longum, semunciam latum 
emarginatum, intis bast barbatum. Fil. brevius anthera, album crassum rigi- 
dum lineare fragile compressé canaliculatum ad antheram dilatatum, ultra eane 
Bilobo-fissum revolutum. Stylus capillaceus: stigma pariim excedens anther 
ram, infundibuliforme, compressum, pallidum. ' 4 
Saeteetentes Joo nae i Eg SES See 
Messrs. Roscoe and Roxburgh, who have both: given, 
peculiar attention to the fine tropical order of Scitamineous ; 
