Note: The figures in Royle’s Illustrated Himalayan Mountain Plants, plate 89, have been mixed (as pointed out by Collett in a note in Oct. 1897 in the RAW copy of the book). Figs. 1 & 3 are of the same species, Roscoea alpina. Fig. 3 of a plant with more developed leaves is wrongly given as Roscoea purpurea. The copy at K is annotated “not purpurea Sm” for Fig. 3 and quoted by Baker in Flora of British India 6: 207, as Roscoea alpina; see ms. unsigned note by Bentham on Herb. Royle specimen of “Roscoea purpurea Royle”, Ill. t. 89 at K-“no-this is purpurea var. procera (Wall.), but not the plant figured by Royle as purpurea, which is only the more leafy form of alpine”. All the drawings in Fig. 1 are of Roscoea alpine; var. minor Royle is not recognised (see Cowley in Kew Bull. 36(4): 766. 1982).