Jinomum. wonandeia monoovnia, 43 



der. /•7o?cc/.snumerou9,Iaroe,\vbite.— Ca/y.rsupeiior,ratlierlonger 



f.h;jn the tube of the coroi, three-cleft, and like the bractes vei7 pensh- 

 jible.— Co;o/ ; Tube sjiort, the three exterior segments of the border 

 form a vault over the anther, they are linear-oblong, and nearly equal. 

 Up ],road-<n al, emarjiinate ; ;/W7-oi/i5 curled ; white, with a little yellow 

 iu the cvrMYe,— F,/amr7it sliort. A>itfier Imear, crowned with an en- 

 tiiv, broad, truiuale, puie white crest. — Gtvmshort-pedicelled, three- 

 celled, iic. as in the ^cnns.— Capsules ovate-oblong, size of a nut- 

 nieLsnine-wiugMl, ihree-celled, but 1 have not observed them sepa- 

 ,ute into vidvel— 3eer/s many, shape various, but oval and ovate are 

 most common. Litegufne/its besides the aril, or its dried remains, a 

 s )ii5lp, very hard, da, k coloured, brittle oue.—Ferisperm conform to 

 the sc '-d, white, and cartilaginous.— /''zVcZ/ms' lodged iu the upper 

 part of the perisperm, of a roundish shape, hard, sub-hyaline.— A'm- 

 bn/o sub-cylindi ic,its apex immersed in the vitellus, and its base at the 

 umbilicus. 



Obs. The seeds of this plant are insipid, whereas those ofAmomutn 

 maximum, which is nearly allieil to it, are aromatic, and pass for a sort 

 of Carda/nom. 



6. A. subulotum. U. 



Leaves lauceolar, smooth. Spikes obovate, echinated with the 

 .ui)g subulate points of the bractes, calyx, and upper segment ot the 

 exterior border of the coroL Lip oblong. 



A native of the lower range of mountains which skirt the plains 

 of Bengal on the nortii, where it grows on the Iwrders of the rills 

 of water between the hills. Flowering time in the Botanic Garden 

 near Calcutta, March and April ; and the seeds ripen during the 

 rains. 



TxQOt tuberous, creeping at a small distance under the surface 

 of the soil, &c. as iu the genus^ and amply furnished with numerous, 

 strong libres. — Sti;)m erect about three or four feet high, and about 

 as thick as the little linger.— Leaves alternate, bifarious, sessile on 

 their sheaths^ yarrow-kuceolar^ finely acuminate, deep greeU; and 



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