Alpinia. monandriA MONoaTNiA. 69 



Amomum repens, seu Cardamomum. Wood, v. 2. p. 365. t. 131. 

 Amonnim repens. Roscoe^ Willd. and Sonnerat. 

 Elettaria. Rheed. mal 1 1. p. 9- ^- 4 and 5. 

 Cardamomum minus, Pharm. Lond. and Edinburgh. 

 Sans. "^^Wt^T, Przihweeka, '^^^T^T, Chundruvala, ??:^r, Ela, 

 fif^fS"^ K?shkoot/, 3[^«IT, Bwlioola. 

 Beng. Elachz, Elaich. 

 Ailum chedy of the Malabars, of the Malabar Coast. 



Hil of tlie Persians. 



Kakulah, also Hal, of the Arabs. 



Teling. Sana-yailacci. 



Cardomimi. Buck. Journey, 2. 336—510, 538, a?id 3. 225. 



A native of the mountainous part of the Coast of Malabar. 



Root tuberous, with numerous fleshy fibres. — Stetns perennial, e- 

 rect, sm.ooth, joined, enveloped in the spongy sheaths of the leaves ; 

 from six to nine feet high. — Leaves bifarious, sub-sessile on their 

 sheaths, lanceolate, fine-pointed, somewhat villous above; and seri- 

 ceous underneath, entire ; length from one to two feet. — Sheaths 

 sli^^htly villous, with a rounded stipulary process rising above the 

 mouth. — Scapes several (three or four) from the base of the stems, 

 resting on the ground, flexuose, jointed, ramous, from one to two 

 feet long. Branches or Racemes 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, soli- 

 tary at each joint of the racemes, opening in succession for a length of 

 time, as the racemes lengthen. — Cali/x above, widening to the three- 

 toothed mouth, about three quarters of an inch long, striated with fine 

 nerves, permanent. — Corol withering. Tube slender, as long as the 

 calyx. Border double, exterior of three, oblong, concave, nearly equal, 

 pale greenish white divisions. Inner lip ox nectary obovate, much 

 longerthan thedivisionsof the exterior borderjraargins somewhat cur- 

 led, with the apexshghtly three-lobed, marked chiefly m the centre, 

 with purple violet stripes ; at each side of its insertion and close by the 



