Crossword-Solution: KAEMPFERIA 10 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

Jones, in his Botanical Observations printed in the Asiatic Researches Volume 4 suspects that by it must be meant the Kaempferia bhuchampac, a plant entirely different from the michelia; but as this supposition is built on a mere resemblance of sounds it is necessary to state that the Malayan term is champaka biru, and that nothing can be inferred from the accidental coincidence of the Sanskrit word bhu, signifying ground, with the English term for the blue colour.

The giant crab of Japan (/Kaempferia kaempferi/) exceeds this, being commonly from eight to twelve feet [pg245] across the arms, and is said to reach even greater proportions.

The special features of this, and the other basts which are similarly employed in these countries—_Edgworthia papyrifera_, _Broussonetia kaempferia_, are (1), the ease with which the coherent fibrous tissue is separated from the parenchymatous tissue which accompanies it; (2), its comparative freedom from medullary rays; (3), the great length and fineness of the fibres.