Amomum, MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 4] 
tube slightly incurved., Exterior border three-pated ; seg- 
ments unequal, erect, oblong, obtuse, the middle one larger, 
concave, and incumbent over the fissure of the inner border, 
together forming a campanulate tube, Lip sub-rotund, with 
crenulate, curled margin, and marked with beautiful crimson 
spots down the middle, on the inside, _ Filament erect, with 
ahornlet on each side -of its base. Anther two-lobed ; lobes 
Jinear-oblong, and surmounted with a broad, three-lobed crest, 
Germ inferior, three-celled, with many ovula in each, attach- 
ed to the inner angle, Stigma funnel-shaped. Capsule the 
size of a large nutmeg, oval, (not sulcate as in Kénig’s Amo- 
mum or Globba crispa, Retz. 3. p. 50.) but thickly beset with 
numerous, stout prickles, three-celled, three-valved; valves 
fleshy (not nuciform as in Globba crispa, Rump, Amb. 6. p. 
137). Partitions membranaceous.. Seeds many i in each cell, 
oval, smooth, brown; surrounded with a pale, gelatinous, 
sweetish-acid pulp or aril, intermixed with fine woolly fila~ _ 
ments, and attached to a central receptacle by very slender 
cords, which are enveloped in the same gelatinous: pulp 
which surrounded the seed. Perisperm white, cartilaginous, 
Vitellus nearly spherical, lodged about the middle of the 
perisperm, and of a clearer colour, and harder texture. Em- 
bryo sub-eylindric, the inner end, or cotyledon, lodged in the 
vitellus, which in some seeds it passes entirely threngh: a 
dicle Atle dneedly to the pmbiliruRy: Beit a he ee 
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i A. maximum. R. | 
Leaves petioled, Kciseslans villous aeaernaath: ‘Spikes 
_ oval, even with the earth. - Bractes lanceolate. Lip elliptic, 
Coronet ‘of ‘one’ semi-lunar lobe, Pcie, round, . ines 
wih eres 
idiiocd fii ee Fister. 
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