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MOiSfANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Scitamine^. 
AMOMUM L. — Perianthium limbo interiore unilabiato. Anthera cris- 
tata; crista lobata v. integra. CopsuZa 3-locularis, 3 -valvis. iSbntna plurima 
arillata. • Embryo simplex albuminosus et vttelk»us. RoxH^fl. ind. ex. 
Anglica tiers. paul6 mutatis terrainis. 
A. maxinuan ; foliis petiolatis lanceolatis subtus villosis, spicis ovalibus 
epigeeis, bracteis lanceolatis, labello eIliptico,cri8td anthera integr&lunu- 
lata, capsulis rotuiidis enneapteris. Roxh. I. c. 
Amomum maximum. Smith in Rees. in supplemento. Romer et Sckultes 
sp. pi. 1.571. Sprengel sy sterna vegetabilium, 1.11. 
Radix Culmus erectus, glaber, vaginatus, basi bulbosiis. Folia 
terminalia, 2-3, patentia, \^ pedalia, angusto-lanceolata, atro-viridia, con- 
colora, supra glabra, suhlucida, subtHs tomentosa. Flores in capitulo radicali 
ovalif scapo brevi, squamoso. Bractese lanceolatce, ferruginece, periantkio 
lappressa, exterioris longitudine. Perianthium exterius tubulosus, infra Jissus, 
apice trilohus, sphacelatus, pallide ritbescens. Perianthium interius limbi 
exterioris laciniis 3, patentibus, subsecundis, oblongis, canaliculatis, obtusis, 
citrinis, sublobatis, membranaceis, in tubo brevi arcuato coadunatis ; labello 
obovato, membranaceOj margine crispato crenato, subdiaphano, venoso, laciniis 
loyigiore, basi utrinque dentate. Anthera in labello incumbens, oblonga, apice 
reniformis,marginata: loculis approximatis,paralleliSf in amplexusuo stylum 
foventihus. Ovarium Stylus Jiliformis, glaber; basi corpusculis 
duobus puberulis.\ Stigma obliquum, tdpitatum, i^jitnd^mldrif ampressum, 
margine oris ciliato. 
AVe were favoured with this plant, in flower, in June 
1824, from th,e^garden of his Grace the Duke of Northum- 
beriarid, at^iln House, where it had befen cultivated for 
several years. Its history had been lost. 
The specimen was not in a healthy state, which may 
explain the cause of its n<^ liaviug arriv ed at the height 
which Amomum maximum attains in the East Indies. 
In the Malay Islands, of which it is a native, it reaches 
the stature of a tall man. It is j)ro]^cr to remark, that the 
|)lant now represented differs from Roxburgh's dcscrij^tion, 
m not having the outer segments of the inner perianthium 
