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yellowish pink, interior, or inferior perianth tubular, length of the pro- 
per perianth.— Calyx superior, length of the tube of the corol, tubular, 
with three-toothed, coloured apex.—Corol ; Tube cylindric, long and 
slender ; segments of the border linear-oblong, obtuse. Lip with pretty 
broad cordate base, from thence tapering to its entire obtuse point, 
much longer than the segment of the exterior border ; margins curled. 
— Filament, anther, germ, style, stigma, and nectarial bodies, as in the 
genus.—Capsules pretty long-pedicelled, ovate-oblong, while fresh 
above an inch and a half long, and nearly one in diameter, somewhat 
three-lobed, each angle marked with a larger vertical wing, aud two 
smaller on the flatter sides, between the large ones, three-celled.— 
Seeds numerous, obovate, with a groove on one side. Integuments two; 
exterior soft, while fresh it may be called the succulent aril ; inferior 
white and rugose.— Perisperm conform to the seed, white, and friable, 
perforated by a spongy, brown substance above the embryo,—Vitel- 
lus somewhat hyaline, rising on each side of the perforation like two 
horns.— Embryo subclavate, its small end lodged at the umbilicus. 
Obs. The form of the Capsule, which resembles that of Gærtner’s 
Zinziber Ensal, and the acrid, aromatic taste of the seeds, induce 
to conclude that this is the plant which produces the Cardamomum 
medium of the writers on Materia medica. 
12. A. linguiforme. R. 
Spikes radical, linear, rather open. Lip linguiformn, bifid; pep broad, ; 
and spurless; sides incurved. 
À native of the interior parts of Bengal, where it blossoms during 
the rains. 
Root pnuk throwing off numerous suckers, gen run both 
above, and under the surface of the earth, by which this species is soon 
multiplied.— Stems many, erect, or nearly so, as thick as a man's fore- 
finger,smooth, from four to six feet high.— Leaves bifarious, sessileon 
their sheaths, lanceolate, smooth on both sides ; length, from uniti 
twenty-four inches, by from four to five broad. Sheaths 
little above the insertion of the leaf.—Spikes radical, solitary, thea] 
only rising above the soil ,laxly imbicuei wid oblong eben 
