. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . about 3 or 4 feet high;stem upright, branchingly panicled at the top; leaves pe-tioled; petiole not undulated at the base; blade cuneatelytapered at the base (or rather at the base of the lobes), irre-gularly 5-lobed to beyond the middle; lohes oblong, acumi-nate, incisively scored or cleft; i^acemes long loose branch-ing; bractes subulate, very thin, smooth, shorter than thepedicles; bractelets smooth pressed close to the flower;calyxes smooth, of a beautiful blue; spur horizontal,straight, the length of the calyx; petals brown, 2 u
. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . about 3 or 4 feet high;stem upright, branchingly panicled at the top; leaves pe-tioled; petiole not undulated at the base; blade cuneatelytapered at the base (or rather at the base of the lobes), irre-gularly 5-lobed to beyond the middle; lohes oblong, acumi-nate, incisively scored or cleft; i^acemes long loose branch-ing; bractes subulate, very thin, smooth, shorter than thepedicles; bractelets smooth pressed close to the flower;calyxes smooth, of a beautiful blue; spur horizontal,straight, the length of the calyx; petals brown, 2 upperones smooth entire at the top, 2 lower ones bifid beardedwith deep-yellow hairs; germens smooth or else covered witha thin pubescence. The plant varies with an entirely smoothsurface, and one that is very finely velvetted. A spontane-ous specimen sent from Saratof to Monsieur DecandoUe,differed from the garden ones, in having the pedicles, brac-telets, calyxes, and even the capsules, in a younger stage,covered with a fine dense velvet-like 328 ALPINIA Alpinia. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Nat, ord, Cannae. Jussieu gen, 62. SciTAMiNEiE. Brown prod. SOS,ALPINIA. Supra vol, 2,fol. 141. A. malaccensis, foliis lanceolatis, petiolatis, subtus villosis: racemis termi-iialibus, simplicibus. Labello transversim latiore, obsolete trilobo, lobisin tubum involuto-conniventibus. Roxb, in asiat, res, 11. 353. Alpinia malaccensis. Roscoe in trans, linn, soc, 8. 345. Alpinia petiolaris. Solander in sched, banks, et ad specimen in Horto hexnemi Jloridum herbaiioque banksiano repostum,Renealmia suniatrana. Donn cant, ed, 8. malaccensis. Burin, ind. 2. Willd. sp, pi. 1. malaccensis. Rumph. amb. 5, 176. t, 71Jig. )aun Andong. Patjing. Malayensibus, Caules simplices, erecti, ieretes, vaginis foliorum vestiti, superne villosi,5-8 pedes alti. Fol. alterna, petiolata, ovato-oblonga, elliptica, acuminata^integerrima, supra glabra, subtiis villosa,
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