Amomunu monandria monogynia. 41 



tube slightly incurved. Exterior border three-parted ; seg- 

 ments unequal, erect, oblong, obtuse, the middle one larger, 

 concave, and incumbent over the fissure of the inner border, 

 together forming a campanulate tube. Lip sub-rotund, with 

 crenulate, curled margin, and marked with beautiful crimson 

 spots down the middle, on the inside. Filament erect, with 

 a hornlet on each side of its base. Anther two-lobed ; lobes 

 linear-oblong, and surmounted with a broad, three-lobed crest. 

 Germ inferior, three-celled, with many ovula in each, attach- 

 ed to the inner angle. Stigma funnel-shaped. Capsule the 

 size of a large nutmeg, oval, (not sulcate as in Konig's Amo- 

 mum or Globba crispa, Retz. 3. p. 50.) but thickly beset with 

 numerous, stout prickles, three-celled, three-valved; valves 

 fleshy (not nuciform ;is in Globba crispa. Rump, Amb. 6. p. 

 137). Partitions membranaceous. Seeds many in each cell, 

 oval, smooth, brown; surrounded with a pale, gelatinous, 

 sweetish-acid pulp or aril, intermixed with fine woolly fila- 

 ments, and attached to a central receptacle by very slender 

 cords, which are enveloped in the same gelatinous pulp 

 which surrounded the seed. Perisperm white, cartilaginous. 

 Viiellus nearly spherical, lodged about the middle of the 

 perisperm, and of a clearer colour, and harder texture. Em- 

 bryo sub-cylindric, the inner end, or cotyledon, lodged in the 

 vitellus, which in some seeds it passes entirely through. Ra- 

 dicle pointing direct ty to the umbilicus. 



4. A. maximum. R. 



Leaves petioled, lanceolar, villous underneath. Spikes 

 oval, even with the earth. Bractes lanceolate. Lip elliptic. 

 Coronet of one semi-lunar lobe. Capsules round, nine- 

 winged. 



This plant is now growing in the Company's Botanic 

 garden near Calcutta; it was introduced from the Malay 

 islands by the late Colonel Kyd. Flowering time the hot 

 season ; the seeds ripen three or four months afterwards. 



