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AMOMUM ZINGIBER. 
NARROW-LEAVED GINGER 
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STNONTMA. Zingiber, Pharm. Lond. ^ Edin. Amomum 
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Zingiber, Jacquln Hort, Vindob, voL i, t, yS' Zingiber, 
Brownis Jam, 119,* Sloanis Jam* i. 
163. 
Infchi. Rheed* 
Mai 
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Z. angufliori folio, &c. PluL Aim, Zingiber Majus 
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Rumph* Amh, 5 
I j;5, ZtyyiCiph, Diojcorid, Z^yy^df, Gakn, 
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Clafs, Monandria. Or</<?r. Monogynia. L. Gen, Plant, 2. 
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£^ G^//. Ch, Cor 4-fida : lacinia prima patente. 
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A. fcapo nudo, fp 
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THE 
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form 
befet with 
perennial, firm, knotted, of a compreiled roundifli 
rugse, covered with afh coloured 
nfverfe 
bark, partly of a purplifh tinge, and fends forth many long fibres and 
ofF-fets; the internal fubflance of the younger roots is foftifh, flefiiy, 
and greenifh ; of the older, it is compad, fibrous, whitifh, and when 
powdered has a yellowifh appearance : the fl:alks are about three feet 
high, round, inclofed in an imbricated membraneous fheathing ; the 
leaves are fword-fhaped, fmooth, pointed, entire, and fland alternately 
upon the iheathes of the ftalk ; the fcapus, or flower-ftem, rifes about 
a foot high, it is ered, round, alternately Iheathed like the llalks. 
without 
d terminates in an oval, obtufe, bradeal 
mbri 
cated fpike; the corollse, or flowers, appear between the bradeal 
fcales of the fpike, two or three at a time 
are 
yello 
colour. 
of 
petalous, tubular, and cut into three 
they 
dingy 
unequ 
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the 
acute, fegments, which have their points curled backwards 
nedary occupies the faUx or mouth of the tube of the corolla, 
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