Galangale (Alpinia galanga; not to be confused with 'the slender galingle,' see GALINGALE), a genus of Zingiberaceæ cultivated in the Eastern Archipelago, and much used in the East for the same purposes as ginger.
Galangale
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 55
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