Amomun, MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 39 
2. A. angustifolium. Linn, spec. pl, ed, Willd.\. p. 8. 
Leaves broad-lanceolate, Spikes elevated, linear-oblong, 
compact; clavate bractes oblong, rather pointed, Lip obo- 
vate, cuneate, entire. Crest three-toothed. 
_ Amomum angustifolium, Sonnerat, it. 2.f. 137. 
_ Ac native of Madagascar, From the island of Mauritius 
€aptain Tennant brought plants thereof to the Botanic gar- 
den at Calcutta, in 1802, where they grow freely, and blos- 
som at various times of the year. Every part of the plant, 
when bruised, or wounded, diffuses a — me pleasant 
aromatic smell, 
Root stnini Habecous, horizontal ; esi fleshy Gee, 
together with runners, issue from the crown, or bulb; by 
these runners the plant soon spreads, and by these it is solide 
multiplied. Stems numerous, straight, round, smooth, rising 
to the height of from six to ten feet. Leaves alternate, bifa- 
rious, sub-sessile on their sheaths, broad-lanceolate, fine- 
pointed, smooth on both sides; from twelve to eighteen inches 
Jong, and from about four to six broad. Sheaths embrace. 
about three quarters of the stem, are smooth, and rise in an 
obtuse process, (ligula,) above the insertion of the leaves, 
Scapes from the bulb, or base of the stem, where it unites: - 
with the root, rather slender, from six to twelve inches long, 
and closely imbricated with many, mucronate, smooth, sheath-. 
ing scales, Spikes lmear-oblong, about the size of a man’s 
thumb, imbricated with similar, but larger scales than those 
‘of the scape; the inner more deeply coloured. Flowers. 
-few, pretty large, and possessed of a strong spicy fragrance. 
_Braetes ;_ proper two to each flower, linear-oblong, inserted 
round the base of the germ, like an inferior perianth, Calyx 
‘superior, deep blood red, smooth on both sides, slit two- 
thirds on the outside, apex obscurely three-toothed._ Corot ; 
~ — ahem as fF as s the beeches) # xtert rl “de 
verv narrow segments, Liv iutebanaicle entire, or ligh ae aal ae 
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