v. 
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_, L A. Dalla ih 
_ -Barrow-pointed, often above 1 ft. long and nearly 2 in. broa 
4 long as the tub 
Qureuma.) ; CXIX. SCITAMINER. 263 
of the style. Anther oblong-linear, the 2 cells folded round the 
summit of the style and produced at the base into auricles or spurs, 
ea 
concave or saccate and imbricate at the base, with broad spreading 
The genus is generally distributed over tropical Asia, the only Australian species is, 
as far as hitherto known, endemic. 
. 1. C. australasica, Hook. f. 
cluster of white cylindrical tuberous roots. Leaves 1 to 1} ft. long, 
lanceolate or narrow-elliptical, acute, tapering into a long Les 
petiole. Seape lengthening to about 6 in. below the broad spike, whic 
fr . 
< upper lobe concave and 
broad, the lateral outer ones and upper inner one or staminodes broadly 
oblong; labellum broadly orbicular almost dapa i notched and 
i and acute. 
; Queensl York, Daemél, Gulliver; Cape Sidmouth, C. 
dried specimens too idi crushed to admit of a careful examination of the structure st 
the flower; the above description taken chiefly from that given by Dr. Hooker in 
Botanical Magazine. | 
3. AMOMUM, Linn. 
Calyx tubular, spathaceous or 3-lobed at the top. Corolla-limb as 
h e, 3-lobed, the dorsal lobe broader than the late 
ones, without inner lobes. Labellum large, flat, entire or lo j 
ments flat, the connective produced beyond the anther-cells into a 
3-lobed appendage, the lateral lobes divaricate, the middle one erect, 
entire or notched ; anther-cells embracing the style. Two small linear 
staminodes at the base of the style. wm 3-celled. Style filiform, 
clavate at the end, with a concave stigma. Fruit succulent or opening 
in 3 valves. Seeds arillate.—Herbs with creeping rhizomes. aves 
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on barren . Flower 
sheathing scales. Spike short, with broad imbricate bracts. Flowers 
usually large, one within each bract. Mes 
The genus is widel d the tropical regions of both the New and the Ok 
World. rhe cid ustedes Modi, which il have not seen, is believed to be endemic. 
chyi, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 25. Leaves lanceolate, 
; pes 
very short. Bracts shorter than the calyx, a few larger vno the base 
of the spike, the largest 1j in. long. Calyx about 1 in ong, — 
branous, striate-veined, shortly 3-toothed. Corolla yellow, the lobes 
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