Shell ginger, Alpinia zerumbet. Drooping-flowered renealmia, Renealmia nutans. Native of China, in the herbarium collection of James Vere, Kensington Gore. Copperplate engraving drawn, engraved and hand-coloured by Henry Andrews from his Botanical Register, Volume 5, self-published in Knightsbridge, London, 1804.

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