Tas. 4764. 
AMOMUM Dantettt. 
Bastard Melligetta. 
Nat. Ord. ZINGIBERACEZ.—MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4603.) 
Amomum Danielli; glabrum, caule elongato folioso, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis 
tenui-acuminatis striato-venosis, scapis radicalibus floriferis 2 unc., fructi- 
feris 4-6 une. longis 3-5-floris, bracteis oblongo-cymbiformibus obtusis, 
corolle coccines lobis lateralibus patentibus lanceolato-acuminatis dorsali 
amplo obovato-oblongo ceteris longiore, labello late obovato-subspathulato 
albo flavo roseoque picto patente margine undulato-crispato, filamento basi 
utrinque appendicula subulata aucto, fructu lineari-ampullaceo rostrato. 
Amomum Danielli. Hook. fil. in Journal of Bot. v. 4 (1852). p. 129. tab. 5 (in 
Tab. under the name of A. Afzelii). 
We have taken infinite pains with our correspondence in tro- 
pical Western Africa, to endeavour to procure authentic informa- 
tion respecting the Amomums, or Melligetta Peppers, as they are 
usually called, of that coast. At our Tab. 4603 of this Magazine, 
we had the satisfaction of publishing a figure and description of 
the Amomum Grana-Paradisi of Linneeus ; and now we are able 
to illustrate another kind, of which till lately nothing had been 
known but by the figure given at page 1138 of vol. i. of the 
late Dr. Pereira’s ‘ Elements of Materia Medica,’ the specimen of 
which he received from Dr. Daniell under the name of “ Bastard 
Melligetta.” That able author thought it might prove to be the 
Amomum Clusii of Sir J. E. Smith, in Rees’s Cyclopedia ; but, 
as Dr. Hooker has shown, in the ‘ Journal of Botany,’ that is a 
point impossible to be determined by the description given i 
that work, and it is zof the fruit so named of Sir James Smith's 
collection at the Linnean Society. The present species Is a na- 
tive of the Gold and Slave Coasts, and about Clarence Town, in 
Fernando Po. The natives call it “ Bassalo.” With us it re- 
quires the heat of a moist stove; and it is a highly ornamental 
FEBRUARY lst, 1854. 
