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KA MPFERIA®* Roscoedna. 
Mr. Roscoe's Kempferia. 
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MONANDRIA MONOGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. ScrrAMINER. 
KAEMPFERIA.— Supra, vol. 2. fol. 173. 
K. Roscoeana; tuberibus fasciculatis subsessilibus oblongis; caule nullo; 
foliis terree decumbentibus suborbiculatis acutis supra variegatis ; flori- 
bus paucis radicalibus fasciculatis erectis sessilibus; limbo exteriore 
breviore, interiore plano patentissimo, laciniis obovatis obtusis, antica 
profundé biloba. Wallich MSS. 
Radix constans tuberibus numerosis, oblongis, sesquipollicaribus, feré 
sessilibus, pallidis, intiis aqueo-albidis, inodoris, et insipidis. Caulis nullus 
nist petioli foliorum brevissimt, dilatati, invicem imbricantes. Folia bina, 
opposita, evolutione cylindraceo-convoluta et erecta, mox verd plana, paten- 
tissima, terreque arcte depressa, latissimée ovata, feré orbiculata, acuta, 
parim undulata, membranaceo-marginulata, firma, subcarnosa, opaca, 
5-6-pollicaria, suprd ex ameené viridi et purpureo fasciatim variegata, 
propter punctula minuta mollia innumera fere velutina, subtis pallida, 
costa latd, basin versis prominente, nervisque pluribus gracilibus ad apicem 
convergentibus ; bast rotundata, vel obsolete retusa. . Flores inter bases 
Soliorum radicales, erecti, pauct, sessiles, candidi, inodori, magni. Bracteee 
due, lineari-lanceolate, hyaline, unguiculares, basi tubi calycique adpresse. 
Calyx brevis, subcylindricus, oblique acutus, tenuissimus, glaber. Tubus 
cylindricus, sesquipollicaris. Limbus planus, patentissimus, diametro fere 
bipollicari. Lacinie tres exteriores lineares, acute, unguiculares, subequales ; 
interiores obovate, obtuse, pollicares; antica major profundé biloba, lobis 
rotundatis, basi versis faucem leviter conveaa et flavicans. Filamenta 
perquam brevia, summo tubo antice inserta, gerentia antheram oblongam, 
subcristatam, obtusam, canaliculatam, inclusam, loculis marginalibus gra- 
cilibus ; polline albido. Stigma cuneatum, pubescens, antherd brevius. Wal- 
lich MSS. 
«« When I found this elegant and singular species it 
was out of flower, but in perfect foliage. On my return to 
* Named in honour of Engelbert Keempfer, a learned German, who 
travelled in the East in the end of the seventeenth century, and who was the 
first to publish any important information upon Japan. 
