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long at the lower forks ; flower suberect, shortly pedicelled, 1-1½in. long ; bracts small, cup alar ; calyx-tube ⅓-½in., sub-campanulate, pubescent, mouth oblique, obtusely 2-3-toothed ; corolla-tube as long as the calyx segments, longer than the tube, linear-oblong, cymbiform, dorsally pubescent, shortly spurred below the hooded tip ; lip lin. long, including the slender claw, cuneiform or nearly orbicular, bifid, margins waved and erose, claw as long as the limb, base with 2 fleshy teeth ; fila- ments nearly as long as the anthers, cells distant, glabrous, connective produced into a small, lobed crest ; style glabrous, stigma small ; fruit globose, ⅔in. diam., pericarp black, fragile ; seeds small, black. (Trimen.)

Uses : — According to Trimen, the aromatic rhizomes are used as a medicine, probably for the same purposes as other species of this genus.

Habitat : — Southern Malay Peninsula and the Concan.

Root-stock perennial, not tuberous. Leafy stem slender, 2-4ft. Leaves 6-12 by l-2in., lanceolate, acuminate, green and glossy on both surfaces. Panicle short, dense-fid, 3-4in. ; rachis pubescent ; lower branches short, bearing 3-4 crowded flowers ; bracts small, ovate. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, ¼-⅓in. ; ovary densely pubescent. Corolla segments ½in., oblong, greenish-white. Lip 1-1½in., oblong, beautifully variegated with red and yellow on a pale ground with edges slightly incurved ; base spurred. Anther-cells minutely margined. Ovules many in a cell. Capsule globose, red. (Baker).

Uses : — Sold and used as a substitute for galangal in Hyderabad and other parts of India. (Moodeen Sheriff.)

Sans, : — Sarvajayá.

Vern. : — Sarba jaya, Kiáwra, Ukilbar-ki-munker (H.); Sarbajayá, Kámákshi (B.) ; Hakok (Pb.) ; Devakeli, kardali (Mar.) ;