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“ORD. XLV. SCITAMINEA, 
(From Scitamentum, meat of a pleasant taste.) 
All this order consists of beautiful exo tics, 
a 
AMOMUM ZINGIBER. NARROW-LEAVED GINGER. 
SYNONYMA. Zingiber, Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Amomum 
Zingiber, Jacquin Hort. Vindob. vol. 1.t.75. Zingiber, Browne’s 
Jam. 119.  Sloane’s Jam. 1. p. 163. Inschi. Eheed. Mal. 
-Z. angustiori folio, &c. Pluk. Alm. Zingiber Majus, Rumph. 
Amb. = p. 156. ZiyySepis, Dioscorid. ZuyyCep, Galen. 
Gen Plont. 2. 
Class, Mona dri 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cor, 4-fida: Jacinia prima patente. 
Sp. Ch. A. scapo nudo, spica ovata. 
THE root is perennial, firm, knotted, of a compressed roundish 
form, beset with transverse rug, covered with ash coloured bark, 
partly of a purplish tinge, and sends forth many long fibres and 
off-sets; the internal substance of the younger roots is softish, 
fleshy, and greenish; of the older, it is compact, fibrous, whitish, 
and when powdered has a yellowish appearance : the stalks are 
about three feet high, round, inclosed in an imbricated mem- 
braneous sheathing; the leaves are sword-shaped, smooth, pointed, 
entire, and stand alternately upon the sheatnes of the stalk; the 
