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considered as an Alpinia, or an Hellenia, without great violence 
to its natural characters, for the inflorescence issues horizontally 
from the tuberous, annulated part of the stem, near the root: 
but in the genera just mentioned it is terminal, from the extre- 
mities of the leafy shoots,—a difference (as Mr. Roscoe also 
remarks, in a letter with which he has favoured me on this sub- 
ject) too great to be made a mere specific distinction; and I 
cannot help suspecting that the fruit, likewise, will be found to 
be different, though my opportunities of investigation have not 
been sufficient ta warrant my being confident on this point. 
From Phalydrum there is a sufficient distinction in the absence 
of the woolly appendage at the base of the tube, and from 
Hedychium in the anthera not being placed marginally on the 
- filament. According to Mr. Roscoe, all the Renealmie (except 
.R. exaltata perhaps) are reducible to the genus A lpinia, their in- 
florescence being terminal ; and the description of R. exaltata, 
as given in the Supplementum Plantarum, cuts off that plant 
from a generic alliance with the Cardamom, the fruit of the 
former being a cylindrical bacca, containing seeds perfectly 
smooth. E SET | | 
. Hence it seems necessary to place the Cardamom under a new 
genus, to which I propose to affix the name of Evetrarta, 
from Elettari, the original Malabar appellation, as given in the 
Hortus Malabaricus. I cannot help considering it as premature 
to attempt to draw its botanical characters in a regular manner, 
until opportunities are afforded of. comparing this plant, in 
the different stages of fructification, with its congeners, particu- 
larly Amomum and Alpinia, of which perfect: specimens in a 
living state ought to be carefully investigated, before any discri- 
minations can be satisfactorily established. In the mean time, 
it may be of some importance to collate the figures and descrip- 
tions 
