Amomun. | MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 37 
aol? CG, aaa Re» tscee ube oo 
Bulbs and celina binge ns sedi ateall davwasd cae. 
pale yellow; tubers numerous, pendulous, on short fusiform 
fibres... Leaves long-petioled, oblong, ovate with the base 
rounded, (this is the only species known to me, in which 
_ they have this form.) _ The whole plant uniformly green, ex- 
' eept the lilac-coloured coma of the spike. 945 9) > 
A native of Pegu, and from thence sent by Mr. F, Caley 
to. the Botanic gondeniats Caleutta, where it blossoms in 
August. 
- Obs, This. siecle differs conspicuously ents all my Ais 
-eurcume im the cordate shape of the leaves. The spike is 
central, as in the other late flowering species, its coma small, 
and. of a lilac colour; the bractes very perfectly united al- 
most to the broad, ccmicnah apex, forming eee “~ 
ponerie! for the small — flowers, 4 -Aiey showy 
if 
seeds gu AMO UM. Schreb. gen. plant N.3. 
eile: with the interior border. unilabiate. 
bie... surmounted with an entire, or ie crest, Capsule 
three-yalyed, . Seeds many, arilled, Embryo 
ished with both perisperm and. vitellus, | 
ARE cifte t saboriep aie 
1A, nema Linn. spec, pl. ed, Willd L.& ads 
Leaves short-petioled, lanceolar. Spikes half pant vo 
the. earth, loosely imbricated with villous, lanceolate, acute,. 
one-flowered . bractes, - te with the anterior sare wari 
— lobed. Crest three-lobed. . 
. Cardamomum minus, Seeks Amb, p. 152. t. Of, hin y 
_ A native. of Sumatra, and other‘islands to the eastward of 
the Bay of Bengal, and sent by Dr. Charles Campbell from 
pics 
tint of ging but. smaller, less fleshy, more ee. ' 
eae OF the soil, like Co 
