Jjlpinia. moxandria monogynia. 71 



Amoraum repens, Roscoe, Willd. and Sonnerat. 



Elettaria. Rheed. Mai. 11. p. 9. t. 4 and 5. 



Cardamomum minus, Pharni. Lond. and Edinburgh. 



Sans. Prithweeka, Chundntvala, Ela, Nishkoo*?, Bwhoola. 



Bene). Elaclu, Elaich. 



Ailum chedy of the Malabars, of the Malabar Coast. 



Hil of the Persians. 



Kakujah, also Hal, of the Arabs. 



Teling. Sana-yallacci. 



Cardonmin. Bitch. Journey, 2. 336 — 510, 538, am? 3. 225. 



A native of the niountainous 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 hilarious, sub- 

 sessile on their sheaths, lanceolate, tine-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 ground, flex- 

 uose, jointed, ramous, from one to two feet long. Branches or 

 i u<< mes alternate, one from each joint of the scape, sub- 

 erect, two or three inches long. Bractes solitary, oblong, 

 smooth, 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- 

 in"- 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. Carol withering. Tubes slender, as long as the calyx. 

 Border double, exterior of three, oblong, concave, nearly 

 equal, pale greenish white divisions. Inner lip or nectary 

 obovate, much longer than the divisions of the exterior bor- 

 der; margins somewhat curled, with the apex slightly three- 

 lobed, marked chiefly in the centre, with purple violet stripes : 

 at each side of its insertion and close by the base of the 



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