iVoiri three to five feet high, entiiely enveloped in the ur^bricated 

 'heatlii oi the leaves. — -Leaves bifarious, approxhnafce, sessile on 

 iheir sheaths, linear-ianceolatCj deep green above ; villous, aud paler 

 underneath, where the nerve also is hairy like the sheaths ; length from 

 jone to two feet, and about three inches hioa^.—Sheuihs clothed witb 

 exceediii-ly pungent hairs on the outside; their mouths ending in a 

 atipulary process on each side of the hisertion of the leaf. — Scapes 

 radical^ from six to twelve inches long, invested in several, oblong, 

 downy sheaths. — Spikes oblong, strobililbrm, compact, sharp-point- 

 ed, closely imbricated with numerous obovate, acuminate, greenish 

 ferruginous (where exposed), villous bractes — Flozpers solitary, (that 

 is, one to each bracte of the spike, and blossoming in succession,) large, 

 every paft of a pale, uniform, sulphur colour. — Cu/jt/x double; the 

 exterior, smooth, spathifonn, three-dentate one, may be considered a 

 bracte ; it is inserted round the base of the germ, which, as well -as 

 the inner, or proper perianth, it entirely envelopes ; when forcibly 

 (expanded, oval. Inner ov proper perianth , superior, one-leaved, some- 

 what gibbous, membranaceous, three-toothed, on the outside divided 

 nearly halfway down. — CoroL Tube slender, as long as the scale of 

 the spike, upper division of the exterior border boat-shaped, project- 

 ing over the stamen ; under two narrower and reflexcd under the 

 lip. Lip lliree-lobed ; laterallobes obliquely obovate, erect; middle 

 lobe nearly rour^d, with the apex emarginate, and the border slighdy 

 curled. — Siatn. Anther ending in glong, subulate, recurved beak, 



4. Z. roseiim. Hoscoe in Trans, of Linn, Soc. 8. 348. 

 Xeaws short-petioled, lanceolate. Spikes lax, half immersed ill the 

 jarth. Bracfes lanceolate, coloured. Lip entire. 

 Amomum roseum. Cor cm. pi. 2. N. 12G. 

 Teliiig. Bumacutchicay. 



Is a native of the northern Circars, where it flowers in the rainy 



»'«>ason. 



Root biennial, horizontal, jointed, and white; with many large fibres. 

 ^-S.temi; several, invented in the sheaths yfthc leaves, ^q, as in the 



