E: = JMONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Amomum. 
4 ET : 
opening iti accession, and not very conspicuous.— Cal yz, clavate, tu- 
bular, downy, three-toothed, length of the tube of the corol. — Tube 
of the corol, slender, and slightly mcurved. Ezferior border of three 
sub-equal pellueid divisions. Lip, or inner border, rather longer than 
the exterior great border, somewhat three-lobed, with acrenate, curled 
margin ; middle lobe yellow, with two rosy lines leading up to it from 
the mouth-of the tube.— Filament scarcely half so long as the border 
of the corol, incurved over the mouth of the tube. There isa slender 
subulate horn on each side ofthe base of the filament, aud nearly its 
length. Anther double, large, fleshy, with a large, three-lobed, con- 
cave crest; the infundibuliform stigma rising through a deep groove 
between the two polliniferous lobes.— Germ beneath, downy, and 
crowned with the two nectatial scales, within the base of the tube of 
the corol ; inthis species they are short, and truncated. - 
Obs. The seeds are to the taste agreeably aromati 
tic, and are used 
by the — ubstitute for the irae. Cardanon of Matabar. 
2. A. angusti Vots Linn. spec. pl. ed. Willd. 1. p. 8. 
: iama broad-lanceolate. * Spikes elevated, aei oii € com- 
pact ; clavate bractes oblong, rather pointed, Lip obovate, cuneate, 
entire. -Crest kriit n ; 
Amomum angustifolium. Sonneral it. 9. f. 197. 7 
A native of Madagascar. From the island of Mauritius Captain 
Tennent brought plants thereof to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, in 
18029; where they grow freely, and blossom at various times of the 
year. Evers. part of the plant, wher bruised, ‘or Wounded, ‘diffus 
a strong, but pleasant aromatic smell. Hio PEE 
"Root perennial, tuberous, ‘horizontal : riti fleshy’ fibres, togë- 
ther with runners, issue from the crown, or bulb ; by these runners 
the plant soon spreads, and by these it is easily multiplied.—Svems 
numerous, straight, round, smooth, rising to the beight of from sit 
to ten feet.— Leaves alternate, bifarious, eub-séssile on their sheaths, 
broad-lanceolate, fine-pointed, smooth on both sides; length from 
twelve to eighteen inches, and ‘from: about four to six broad. - 
