Alpinia. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. - - q89 
‘Amomum repens, seu Cardamomum. Wood, v. 9. p. 365. t. 131.. 
. Amomum repens. Roscoe, Willd. and Sennérat. ; 
Flettaria. Reed. mal. 11. p. 9. t. 4 and 5. 
Cardamomum minus, Pharm. Lond. and "Edinburgh" 
Sans. TAIAT, Prithweeka, "usn, Chundrírvala, VI, ae 
fasse, Nishkooti, Vut, Buhoola. 
Beng. Elachi, Elaich. 
Ailum chedy of the MataDars, of the Malabar Coast. 
Hil of the. Persians. a I | 
| Kakulah, also Hal, of the Arabs. iu cu aig 
Teling. Sana- allacci. papa siete Jus gara EE 
2 seo = ER re and $.995. 
rect, smooth , joined, A E j in the spongy "sheath of the leaves; 
from six to nine feet high.— Leaves bifarious, sub-sessile on their 
sheaths, lanceolate, fine- pointed, somewhat villous above ; and seri- 
ceous underneath, entire ; length from one to two feet.—Sheaths 
slightly villous, with a suede stipulary process rising above the - 
mouth.— Scapes several (three or four) from the base of the stems, 
resting on the ground, flexuose, jointed, ramous, from one to two . 
feet Jong. Branches or Racemes alternate, one from each joint i of - 
wey 
scape, : sub-erect, two or three inches Jong. — Bractes solitary, obl 
smooth, membranaceous, nerved, sheathing, one to each joint of the 
scape, which embrace. the insertion of the racéme, or branch ; and 
one at each of their joints.- x Flowers : alternate ; y ; shórt-pedicelled, soli- 
tary at each j joint of the racemes, opening in succession for alength of | 
time, as the 1 racemes s lengthen.— —Calyz above, widetiing to the three- 
toothed mouth, about three quarters of an inch long, stristed with fine 
nerves, permanent.— Corol- withering. Tube slender, as long as the - 
calyx. Border double, exterior of three, oblong, concave, neatly ‘equal, 
pale greenish white divisions. Inner lip or nectary obovate, mich 
longer than the divisions of the exterior border ; margins somewha 
led; with the apex slightly three-lobed, marked chi } 
with purple violet pet ateach side of its insertion and clo 
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