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yellowish pink, interior, ox inferior perianth tubular, length of the pro- 

 per perianth. — Calyx superior, length of the tube of thecorol, ttibular, 

 with thrce-toolhed, coloured apex.— Coro^ ; Tube cylindric, long and 

 slender ; jegwewfs of the border linear-oblong, obtuse. i?p with pretty 

 broad cordate base, from thence tapering to its entire obtuse point, 

 much longer than the segment of the exterior border ; margins curled. 

 — Filament, anther, germ, style, stigma, and nedarial bodies, as m the 

 ^em\s.— Capsules pretty long-pedicelled, ovate-oblong, while fresh 

 above an inch and a half long, and nearly one in diameter, somewhat 

 three-lobed, each angle marked with a larger vertical wing, and two 

 smaller on the flatter sides, between the large ones, three-celled. — 

 iSeerfs numerous, obovate, with a groove on one side. Integuments two; 

 exterior soil, while fresh it may be called the succulent aril; inferior 

 white and rugose. — Fens/ierm conform to the seed, \yhite, and friable, 

 perforated by a spongy, brown substance above the embryo. — Fitel- 

 lus somewhat hyaline, rising on each side of the perforation like two 

 horns. — Embryo subclavate, its small end lodged at the umbilicus. 



Obs. The form of the Capsule, which resembles that of Ga^rtner's 

 Zinziber Ensal, and the acrid, aromatic taste of the seeds, mduce 

 to conclude that this is the plant which produces the Cardamomum 

 medium of the writers on Materia medica. 



12. A. linguiforme. R. 



Spikes radical, linear, rather open. Lip linguiform, bifid ; base broad, 

 and spurless ; sides incurved. 



A native of the interior parts of Bengal, where it blossoms during 

 the rains. 



Root perennial, throwing off numerous suckers, M'hich run both 

 above, and under the surface of the earth, by which this species is soon 

 multiplied. — Stems many, erect, or nearly so, as thick as a man's fore- 

 fingerjsmooth, from four to six feethigh. — Leaves bifarious, sessileoix 

 their sheaths, lanceolate, smooth on both sides ; length, from twelve to 

 twenty-four inches, by from four to five broad. Sheaths smooth, rising 

 little above the insertion of the leaf. — Spikes Tadicai, solitaiy, the apex 

 only rising above the soil, laxly imbricated with oblong, obtuse smooth, 



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