A new arrangement of the plants of the monandrian class usually called Scitamineae / by William Roscoe.

  • Roscoe, William, 1753-1831.
Date:
1807
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Credit: A new arrangement of the plants of the monandrian class usually called Scitamineae / by William Roscoe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is nearly allied to Kcempferia., seems not to have been founded on any actual inspection of the plants, 'which differ no less in their habit than in their fructification. Not to mention the long linear segments of the exterior limb of the corolla, by which Keemp-’ feria is distinguished from every other genus, the difference be- tween it and Hedychium is strongly marked by the anthera-bear- ing filament; which in Kampferia beyond the anthera, and diverges into two foliaceous lobes, whilst in Hedychium the anthera is terminal, naked, and affixed to each margin of the filament. To Alpinia, Hedychium is more nearly related; but is suffi- ciently distinguished by its long tube and interior trifid corolla. It may also be observed that in Alpinia, the double anthera is attached in two adjacent lobes to the front of the filament, and not to the revolute margins, as in Hedychium^ H. coronarium. Willd, Sp. PL v. 1. 10. Fig. Curt. Bot, Mag. 708. Bot. Card. Liverpool. ALPINIA. Anthera duplex. Filamentum extra antheram non elongatum. Stylus longitudine filamenti, in sulco antherae receptus. Stigma obsolete trigonum. Capsula carnosa. Tab. XX. Fig. 7- The genus Alpinia is founded on the plant figured by Plumier, Americ. tab. 20. the Alpinia racemosa of Linnaeus; of which a specimen remains in his herbarium, which I have had an opportunity of examining, by the favour of its present liberal possessor, and which well agrees with the description. Its first cha-