Amomum, -MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 48 
5. A. dealbatum, R. 
Leaves broad-lanceolar, villous leone Spikes tadicol 
Bractes lanceolate, obtuse, (very perishable.) Exterior bor- 
der vaulted. Lip round-oval. Crest of one, broad, trun- 
cated lobe. Capsules ovate-oblong, nine-winged. 
A stately species, a native of Chittagong, and other coun- 
tries which form the eastern frontier of Bengal : from the 
former it has been introduced into the Botanic garden near 
Calcutta, where it grows luxuriantly, and flowers freely dur- 
ing the months of March and April; and the seeds ripen in 
September and October. 
Roots peremnial, tuberous, crooked, jointed, creeping, like 
common ginger, with strong, fleshy fibres; inward colour of 
the tubers pale dull yellow, and when newly cut consider- 
ably aromatic. Stems numerous, erect in the centre, and 
oblique in the circumference of the clump, from three to five 
feet high. Leaves sub-bifarious, the lower sessile on their 
sheaths and oblong, the superior short-petioled and lanceolar; 
all are very villous, and paler underneath, length from six to 
twenty-four inches, breadth from three to six. Sheaths smooth, 
rising in a bifid ligula above the mouth. Spikes radical, 
roundish-obovate. Scape short and imbricated with scales, &c, 
Bractes from ovate to lanceolate, obtuse, very perishable, pale, 
one-flowered. In this species there is no ianer bracte, like an 
interior calyx attached to the base ofthe germ,so general in 
this natural order. Flowers numerous, large, white. Calyx 
superior, rather longer than the tube of the corol, three-cleft, 
and the bractes very perishable, Corol ; tube short, the three 
exterior segments of the border forma vault over the anther, 
they are linear-oblong, and nearly equal. Lip broad-oval, 
emarginate; margins curled, white, with a little yellow in 
the centre. Filament short. Anther linear, crowned with an 
Se oie Germ short pedicel- 
sna dthree-ale, but Ihave nt ob- a 
eit eal sipantt into valves, Seeds many, shape various, 3 
