"40 MOMANDRIA MONGYNIA. Amomum, | 
slightly. pubescent ; from five to ten feet high. — Leaves alternate, bi- 3 
farious, very short-peuoled, cordate-lanceolate, mucronate, smooth, . 
dark-green; general length from twelve to eighteen inches, and from 
three to four inches broad.— Sheaths half stem-clasping, villous on 
the outside. Ligu/a short, aud of a semi-lunar shape.—Scapes issuing 
-from the base of the stem, under the surface of the ground, where 
At joins the root, diverging a little way under the surface of the earth, 
anvested im oval, feshy scales; those next to the spike longer, and 
more pointed.—Spikes obovate, rising obliquely among, or near the 
stems, just so much as to elevate its lower-bearing apex above the 
surface of the earth.— Flowers numerous, and expand in succession ; 
prevailing colour deep orange. —Bractes, exterior one-flowered,linear- — 
oblong, length of the tube of the:corol ; inner tubular with two-tooth- — 
ed margin, aud inseried round the base of the germ, like an inferior | 
perianth.-Ca/yx above, tubular, two or three-tootl ^—Corol, tube : 
slightly incurved. Exterior border three-parted ; segments unequal, — 
erect, oblong, ahi, the middle one larger, concave and incumbent : 
over the fissute of the Inner border, together forming a campanulate — 
tube. .. Lip, sub-rotund, with crenulate, curled margin, and marked 
, With biesunfal crimson spots down the middle, on the inside.—Lila- 
ment erect, witha hornlet on each side of its base. Anther two-lob- 
ed; lobes a, and surmounted- with a. broad, : three-lobed - 
crest.—Germ inferior, three-celled, with many ovu/a in each, attach- 1 
ed to the inner angle. Stigma funnel-shaped .— Capsule the size of a 
large nutmeg, oval, (not suleate as in Koenig’s Amomum of. Globba 
erispa, Retz. obs. 3. p. 20.) but thickly beset with numer us, sto 
- prickles, three-celled, threewalveds valves Seabyi(uatm T - rm as: 
Globba crispa, Rumph. amb. 6. p. 187). Partiti mbra 
“a= Seeds, many ineach celi, oval, sodth, bro unde 2 
. pale, gelainous, isweetish-acid pulp or aril, utbmined: mih "t 
woolly. lamen: is, ‘and attached to. a central, receptacle by very slender | 
cords, which aie enveloped in the same gelatinous’ pulp which Sur- 
¿Founded the ve de—Perisperat, white; cartilagingus.—Vitellus, near- 
My spherical, lodged. about the egrets and.of a 
