44 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. = Amomum. 
but oval and ovate are most common. _Integuments besides 
the aril, or its dried remains, a smgle, very hard, dark colour- 
ed, brittle one. Perisperm conform to the seed; white and 
cartilaginous, Vitellus lodged in the upper part of the peris- 
perm, of a roundish: shape,hard, sub-hyaline. E’'mbryo sub-— 
cylindric, its apex mnmnersed | in the ‘deh and its hase. atthe 
umbilicus; 
» Obs, The seeds of this olaaes are ple te ae sa of 
Amomum maaimum, which is nearly allied to it, are oxomatics 
=e pass for a sort of Cardeng™ 
6. AL subalstenie: R. 
. Leaves lanceolar, smooth, Srileans ota: “hina with 
de long subulate points of the bractes, calyx, and upper 
segment of the exterior border of the corol. Lip oblong... 
_- A native of the lower. range of mountains which skirt the. 
plains of Bengal on the north, where it grows on the borders 
of the rills of water between the hills, Flowering time in the. 
Botanic garden near Calcatta, March and April ; and. the: 
seeds ripen during the rains. 
Root tuberous, creeping: at a small diepane ie seen 
face of the soil, &e. asin the genus, and amply furnished with, 
numerous, strong fibres. Stems erect, about three-or four feet 
high, and about as’ thick as the little finger. Seance alter- 
nate, bifarious, sessile on their sheaths, narr r, fi 
ly acuminate, deep green, and smooth on n both sires ;- from: 
_ twelve to fifteen inches long, by three or. four broad. Sheaths 
smooth, margins coloured and. rising above the mouth into an 
emarginate ligula. Spikes radical, compact, a little elevat- 
ed above the soil, obovate, size of a goose-egg, echinate with. 
the long, subulate, pale yellow points of the bractes, inner 
calyx and upper segmen of the exterior border of the corol; 
Bractes numerous, the exterior imbricated upward, obovate, 
dark-red, smooth, long-subulate, pointed, one-flowered 5 the 
= a bole -enehifors.. Sie on eal a 
