Alpinias ' MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 7h 
Amomum repens. Roscoe, Willd. and Sonnerat.. 
Elettaria. Rheed, Mal. 11. p. 9. t. 4 aad bbs: cones ed 
Cardamomum minus, Pharm. Lond. and Edinburgh. ai 
_ Sans, Prithweeka, Chundruvala, Ela, Nishkooti, Buhoola. 
_ Beng. Elachi, Elaich. 
_ Ailum chedy of the Malabars, of the Malabar Coast. 
_ Hil of the Persians. De me 
Kakulah, also Hal, of the Arabs. ae oaks 
Teling. Sana-yallacci, 
_ Cardomum, Buch, Journey, 2. 336—510,538, and 3. 995, 
. A native of the mountainous part of the Coast of Malabar. 
Root tuberous, with numerous fleshy. fibres. Stems peren- . 
nial, erect, smooth, joined, enveloped in the spongy sheaths of 
the leaves; from six to nine feet high, Leaves bifarious, sub-. 
sessile on their sheaths, lanceolate, fine-pointed, somewhat vil-- 
lous above, and sericeous underneath, entire; length from one 
to two feet. Sheaths slightly villous, with a rounded stipu- 
lary process rising above the mouth. Scapes several (three or _ 
four) from the base of the stems, resting on the gr , flex- 
uose, jointed, ramous, from one to two feet long. . Branches or 
racemes alternate, one from each joint of the scape, sub-- 
erect, two. or, three inches Jong. Bractes solitary, oblong, 
.00tl , membranaceous, nerved, sheathing, one to each joint _ 
of ‘the. scape, which embrace the insertion of the raceme, or 
branch; and one at each of their joints, . Flowers alternate; 
short-pedicelled, solitary at each joint of the racemes, open- 
ing in succession for a length of time, as the racemes lengthen, _ 
Calyx above, widening to the three-toothed mouth, about. . 
three quarters of an inch long, striated with fine nerves, per- - 
‘manent, Corod withering, Tubes slender, as long as the calyx. . " 
Border double, exterior of three, oblong, concave, nearly - 
equal, pale greenish white divisions. Inner lip or nectaryy_ 
' obovate, much Jonger, than the divisions of the exterior bor- 
| lobed ma folet stripes: 
fly i pecs 
at t each ‘side mg its insertion and close by the base otathe — 
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