Z57 



and 



f in lenrrth 



r 



creeps along tHe ground 



from the r 



afoot and ^ x^tc^jL xx^ xv-^^^lxi, cii.LJ.«.i 

 ducing nmnercus flowers, which 

 peduncles 



It IS 



riinig 



d, in a zig-zag fo 

 placed 



commonly 



from the articulations: the 



upon 



obfcurely divided into three teeth at the 



petalous, 



d pro- 

 ded ftipulated 



is fm. 



gm 



tl 



le 



and 

 mo- 



no 



compoied of a narrow tube, divided at the mouth into. 



four fegments ; of thefe the three outermoil are long, narrow, uniiorm, 

 and of a flraw colour, but the central one, which has been confidered 



ed:aiy 



ge, broad 



ave 



5 



of a 



m 



arked with violet 



ured ft 



ftrap-ihaped 



111 



th 



riDes ; 



the fil 



fhape, and 



IS membrano 



of which the anthera is joined 



the fegments of th 



u 



corol 



la 



> 



to 



the 



top 



below the infertion. of the tube of the corolla: the 



germen is roundifh, and placed 



r 



of the length of the fdament,. and fupplied 



is filiform 



an obtufe ftigma 



the capfule is triangular, divided into three cells and valves, containing 

 feveral fmall dark coloured feeds. , — 



* 



This plant is a native of the Eaft-Indics, and according to Sonnerat 

 grows abundantly, on the Malabar Coaft :" it differs confiderably from 

 the Amomum Cardamomum of Linnseus, as appears by the fpecific 

 charader he has given it, and the figures to which it is referred to in 

 his Species Plantarum. Sonnerat, who firft difcovered ' 



repens 



5 



and 



whofe auth 



ity 



is 



the Amomum 

 fidered to afford the feeds 



officinally known by the name of Cardamomum minus, inf6rm 



that th 



abounds fo plentifully 



mountain on the 



Coaft of Malabar, that it is called the Mountain of Cardamoms, from 

 which all India is fupplied with the feeds. 



The Cardamoms imported into Europe have been diftinguifhed by 

 the names Cardamomum majus, medium, & minus ; the diftindion 



depending 



the refpedive lizes of their feeds ; but the different 



fpecies from which the two former are faid to have been produced 



imperfedly defcribed, and their botanical hiftories fo confufed, thai 

 we are unable to give any fatisfadory information concerning them 



* In afpecimen of this plant, which we have feen in the Herbarium of Sirjofeph Banks 

 this appearance was very remarkable. 



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b 



El 



Hort. Malab 



• « 



Rumph# Jmhoin.^vol 



a 



a 4 



d 





