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17. C. petiolata. R. 



Bulbs and palmate tubers few anil .small ; inward colour 

 pale yellow ; tubers numerous, pendulous, on short fusiform 

 fibres. Leaves long-petioled, oblong, ovate with the base 

 rounded, (this is the only species known to me, in which 

 they have this form.) The whole plant uniformly green, ex- 

 cept the lilac-coloured coma of the spike. 



A native of Pegu, and from thence sent by 3Ir. F. Carey 

 to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it blossoms in 

 August. 



Obs. This species diners conspicuously from all my other 

 curcuma in the cordate shape <>t the leaves. The spike is 

 central, as in tin- other late flowering species, its coma small, 

 and of a lilac colour; the bractes \<rv perfectly united al- 

 most to the broad, reniform apex, forming uncommonly deep 

 pouches for the small yellow flowers. 



AMOM I \V. Schreb. gen. plant. X. 3. 



Corolla with the interior border unilabiate. Anther dou- 

 ble, surmounted with an entire, or lobate crest. Capsule 

 three-celled, three-valved. Seeds many, arilled. Embryo 

 simple, and furnished with both perisperm and vitellus. 



1. A. cardamomum, Linn, spec.pl. ed. Willi/. 1. 8. 



Leaves short-petioled, lanceolar. Spikes half immersed in 

 the earth, loosely imbricated with villous, lanceolate, acute, 

 one-flowered bractes. Lip with the anterior margin three- 

 lobed. Crest three-lobed. 



Cardamomum minus. Rumph. Amb.p. 152. t. 6b. J". 1. 



A native of Sumatra, and other islands to the eastward of 

 the Bay of Bengal, and sent by Dr. Charles Campbell from 

 Bencoolen to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it blos- 

 som> in April. 



Root perennial, creeping under the surface of the soil, like 

 that of ginger, but smaller, less fleshy, more ligneous, and 



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