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277. AMOMUM SUBULATUM. 
Leaves \anceolar, smooth. Spikes obovate, echinated with the 
long subulate points of the bractes, calyx, and upper segment of 
the exterior border of the corol. Lip oblong. Crest truncate, 
undivided, 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A native of the lower range of the Morungh mountains skirting 
the plains of Bengal on the north, where it grows on the borders 
of the rills of water between the hills. Flowering time, in the 
Botanic Garden at Calcutta, March and April; and the seed ripen 
during the rains. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Root tuberous, creeping at a small distance under the surface of 
the soil, &c. as in the genus and amply furnished with nu- 
merous, strong fibres; colour a dull reddish purple on 
the outside, with the interior substance itself considerably 
brighter. 
Stems erect, about 3 or 4 feet high, and about as thick as the little 
finger. 
Leaves alternate, bifarious, sessile on their sheaths, narrow-lanceo- 
lar, finely accuminate, deep green, and smooth on both sides ; 
12-15 inches long, by 3-4 broad. 
Sheaths smooth, margins coloured, and rising above the mouth 
into an emarginate stipule. 
Spikes radical, compact, a little elevated above the soil, obovate, 
size of a goose-egg, echinate with the long, subulate, pale 
yellow points of the bractes, inner calyx, and upper segment 
of the exterior border of the corol. 
Bractes numerous, the exterior imbricated upward, obovate, dark 
red, smooth, long subulate pointed, one-flowered ; the znner, 
or inferior calyx spathiform, opening on one side. 
Flowers large, yellow. - 
Calyx superior, 3-cleft. Segments subulate, and greatly longer than 
the tube of the corol. 
Corol : exterior border of three, nearly equal segments, the upper 
one ends subulate. Lip oblong, often emarginate ; margins 
a little curled; deeper yellow than the extcrior segments. 
Filament flat, kc. Anthers 2-lobed, and crowned with entire crest. 
Germ 3-celled, with many ovula in each, attached to the thicker 
partitions a little removed from the axis. 
Nectarial scales of Koenig, as in the genus. 
Style, Stigma and 
278. K/EMPFERIA OVALIFOLIA. 
Leaves oval. Spikes central. Crest of the anthers laciniate. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A native of the peninsula of Malacca, and from thence sent by 
Major Farquhar to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where they 
blossom in July. It is an intermediate species, both with respect 
to size and habit, between K. galanga and rotunda, and ought to be 
placed between them in the system. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Root tuberous, as in the other species, and about biennial. 
Stems very short, I may say scarce any. 
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Leaves few, bifarious, patent, oval, with a short acute point, smooth 
on both sides: about 6 inches long, by 4 broad. 
Spikes central, hid by the short sheaths of the leaves, few-flowered, 
and they expand in succession ; all pure white, except the 
purple lip. 
Corol nearly as in rotunda and angustifolia, the upper two segments 
of the inner border are obtusely lanceolate, as in the latter ; 
the lip or nectarium of a deep variegated purple colour, the 
shape cuneate-obcordate, and divided from the apex nearly 
half the whole length, into two, long, emarginate lobes. 
Anther 2-lobed, and crowned with a large laci- 
niate, erect, white crest. 
Germ 3-celled, &c. as in the genus. 
Filaments short. 
DALRYMPELEA.* 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER, RHAMNI, Juss. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx 5-leaved. Petals five, alternate with the stamina. Germ 
superior, 3-celled, cells many-seeded, insertion interior. 
Berry 3-celled. Seeds few, nuciform. Embryo sub-inferior, 
and furnished with albumen. 
In memory of the late Alexander Dalrymple, Esq. author of the 
Oriental Repertory, &c. &c. 
279. DALRYMPELEA POMIFERA. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Junky-jam, the vernacular name in Stlhet, where it is a native, 
and grows to be a large tree. Flowering in March; and the seed 
ripen in September, and October. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Young shoots rather succulent, round, and perfectly smooth. 
Leaves opposite, unequally pinnate, and some of them ternate ; from. 
ten to twenty inches long. Leaflets as far as three or four 
pair, and a terminal one, the pairs opposite, all are more or 
less petiolate, oblong, obtusely-serrate, acuminate, smooth: 
5-6 long, by 2-3 broad. 
Petioles and petiolets round and smooth. 
Panicles terminal, spreading much, fully broader than long ; primary 
branches, decussate ; partial alternate, with the small, yellow- 
ish white flowers crowded round their extremities, every part 
smooth. 
Bractes to the primary branches of the panicle opposite, kc. as in 
the Rubiaceae, the rest solitary under each division and sub- 
division. 
Calyx inferior, 5-leaved; Jeaflets rather unequal, and oval. 
Petals five, oblong, obtuse, spreading. Nectary acetabuliform. 
Filaments five, alternate, with the petals and shorter than them, 
inserted under the nectary. Anthers ovate. 
Germ superior, 3-lobed, indeed almost separable, 3-celled ; ovules 
* Turpinia, Ventenat Choix de Plantes. 31. R. B. 
