74 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Alphlia. 



about six or seven feet, and as thick as a slender walking 

 cane. Leaves sub-bifarious, short-petioled on their sheaths, 

 lanceolate, rounded at the J>;ise, both sides smooth ; from six 

 to twenty inches long, by from three to six broad. Sheaths 

 smooth on both sides, rising into a short, eiliate ligula, above 

 the insertion of the short, semi-cylindric, proper petioles. 

 Spikes radical, half immersed in the earth, sub-ey limine, 

 pretty compactly imbricated with from oblong to lanceolate, 

 coloured, smooth, one-flowered bractes. Flowers large, colour 

 a bright red, like the finest carmine. Bractes interior, or 

 inferior perianth, tubular, length of the tube of the corol ; 

 with an unequally two, or three-toothed mouth. Perianth 

 proper superior, tubular, length of the tube of the corol ; 

 month generally bifid. Corol with long, slender tube hid 

 within the bractes, and perianths. Exterior border of three, 

 small, paler coloured, lanceolate segments. Lip highly 

 coloured, large, entire, horizontal, sub-parabolic, the lower 

 part broad, and incurved round the stamina ; lamina linear, 

 with entirely rounded, or slightly marginate apex. Filament 

 .short, base spurless. .hither double, apex bifid, and naked. 

 Germ three-celled, with numerous ovula in each, attached 

 to their respective receptacles, a little remoi ed from the axis. 

 Base of the Btyle embraced by two subulate nectaries. Stigma 

 a lamellate, ciliated gape. 



11. A. Cardamomum medium, R. 



Leaves lanceolar, i illous undenu ath. Spikes radical, lax. 

 Lip ovate-lanceolate. Capsules pedicelled, of an ovate ob- 

 long, conical shape, and nine-winged. 



A native of the hilly countries in the vicinity of Silhet, 

 where the plant is called Do-Keswa. It blossoms about the 

 beginning of the rains, in June, and the fruits ripen in Sep- 

 tember, when they are gathered, and sold to the dealers in 

 drugs; 



Leaves petioled above their sheaths, lineardanceolar, 

 downy underneath, from two to three feet long, by two to 



