AMOMUM vitellinum. 
Orange-yellow Amomum. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ZINGIBERACEZ. (GINGERWORTS, Vegetable Kingdom, 
p. 165.) . 
AMOMUM, L.—Calyz tubulosus, apice trifidus. Corolle tubus brevis, 
limbi lacinie exteriores laterales postica angustiores; interiores laterales 
nulle ; Zabellum maximum, explanatum. Filamentum complanatum, lateribus 
apiceque ultra antheram muticam productum, lobulis duobus auctum, lobo 
terminali bifido. Ovarium inferum, triloculare. Ovula in loculorum angulo 
centrali plurima, horizontalia, anatropa. Stylus filiformis, inter antheræ 
loculos receptus; stigma infundibuliforme. Capsula ssepius baccata, tri- 
locularis, loculicido-trivalvis. Semina plurima, arillata. Herbs inter 
tropicos veteris orbis indigene, species Americane dubia ; radicibus articulatis, 
repentibus, foliis bifariis, membranaceis, vaginis fissis, inflorescentia radicali, 
spicata, laxé imbricata.—Endl. gen. 1626. 
A. vitellinum ; caulescens, glabrum, foliis ovalibus, spicá oblonga sessili 
laxiusculà, labello oblongo obtuso dentato, antherz appendice petaloideá 
tripartitä laciniis undulatis laceris intermediä duplo majore.— Lindley in 
Journal of Horticultural Society, vol. 2. p. 245. 
The history of this plant is unknown. It flowered in the 
garden of the Horticultural Society in May last, and is sup- 
posed to have been received from the East India Company. 
In the Society's Journal it is described as a plant about 
two feet high, with oblong leaves, a little wavy, pale green, 
slightly stalked above a broad thin-edged petiole whose upper 
free end is rounded. The flowers are deep yellow, strongly 
veined with red, and grow in a short close spike, sessile among 
the uppermost leaves. The back petals are short, with sharp 
teeth ; the lip is oblong, coarsely and irregularly toothed, and 
slightly three-lobed. The crest of the anther is three-parted 
and jagged, the lateral divisions being about half the size of 
that in the middle, The anther itself is spurless. About six 
ovules are found in each cell of the ovary. 
