Phryniun. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, & 
form yellow margined hoods for the anther and. stigma. 
Filament inserted between two of the inner segments. of the 
corol, erect, .Anther one-celled, ovate, Germ. inferior, hairy, 
base of three-celled, with. one ovyulum. in,each, attached to: 
the axis. Style growing to the short tube of the corol, above 
free, and uncinate. Stigma funnel-form: Capsule. oblong- 
obovate, size of a field bean, rugose, when ripe pale yellow, . 
three-celled, three-valved. . Partitions opposed... Seeds so- 
litary, oblong; a small Jobate aril round the umbilicus at the. 
base of the seed. Integuments two; exterior brownand glos- 
sy, «terior membranaceous. Rained conform. to the seed, 
and as in P, eapitatum, &c, a brown substance runs up from 
the base, into the arch of the embryo. Eonhrye: smoke 
hooked, with the convexity upwards. ‘ 
Obs, It is almost needless to observe that this oat ei 
no relation to that which furnished the Cardamom nat Mala- 
bity viz. my se Cardamomum, _ ee Hsiteioneaa 
i hits? sip cde kre e8t ths 
Pla pk ideals, were sent by, Mr. Felix aes 
Pit Pegu, to the Botanic garden at,Calcutta,, where they, 
blossom in April and May. 
Root perennial, flexuose, creeping horizontally deepi in the 
earth, thick as a ratan; fibres numerous from the main body, 
- and'spread in all directions, _. Stem none, the sheathing pe- 
tioles unite from six to twelve inches in extent, and resemble, 
one, as in the Curcumas, Leaves in. little radical. tufts, of - 
three or four each, sub-bifarious, petioled,— Linerrhlon 
base broad and rounded’; preter both sur 
athe. — or iss have no sent shes: eras 
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