the Botanic Garden in Calcutta, a few roots which I had 
brought with me produced fresh leaves at the commence- 
ment of the rainy season of 1827; and in July the plant 
bore a succession of flowers. The leaves are extremely 
beautiful, being marked on their upper surface with dark- 
green and purple belts or spots, not very unlike the leaves 
of Maranta zebrina: in form and decumbent posture they 
resemble those of Kempferia Galanga. 
“ Besides this species, I have brought three others 
with me from the Burma countries to Bengal, namely, one 
from the Teak forests, on the Attran river, in Martaban 
(K. candida Wall.), and two from Pegu and Martaban 
(K. Crawfurdiana and K. parviflora Wall.). 1 have dedi- 
cated the species described above, and also a superb 
Curcuma, with large igneous spikes, which I found in 
Pegu and the Tenasserim coast, to my highly revered 
friend William Roscoe, Esq. of Liverpool, whose splendid 
Monography of the beautiful but most difficult tribe to 
which both those plants belong, reflects new lustre upon 
a name already immortalised in the annals of literature 
and philanthropy.” 
For the whole of the preceding very important informa- 
tion, we have to express our acknowledgments to the 
liberality of Dr. Wallich. This, and another article in 
the present Number, will serve to convey some idea of 
the minute attention which has been given to every part 
of Indian Botany by our distinguished friend, and of what 
may be expected from the splendid works, to the publica 
tion of which he is now devoting himself. 
Our drawing was made in October last, in the Garden 
of the Horticultural Society, from plants brought home by 
Dr. Wallich; but as the flowers did not expand perfectly, 
the figure has been completed, by that gentleman’s per- 
mission, from an Indian drawing in his possession. It is 
a tender and rather delicate stove plant, native of damp 
shady rocks, upon the mountain Taong Dong, near Ava, 
where it was found, in November 1826, at the elevation of 
about a thousand feet. 
J. L. 
