MONOCOTYLKDONES. 



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/. Leaves. 



Ex Herb., Royal Garden, Kew ; No. 1054b ; Island of 

 St Thomas, W. Africa ; lat. o ; collected by G. 

 Mann; received Nov., 1S61. Drawing of flower, 

 18 Jan., 1862.— D. H. Also coloured one of fruit 

 received in fresh state from S. A. Benson, 22 April, 

 1853. Grand Bassa, with section of fresh fruit, 

 some seeds of which were sent to RoUison of 

 Tooting. 



584. Amomum limbatum, 0. and H. 



a. Leaves and detached leaves. 



Fernando Po; "all through the forest ;" G. Mann ; No. 



1171. Flower light piu-ple. Plant 12ft. high. 



Received Jan., 1862, with the flowers and fruit in 



spirit. [A drawing of the scape and flowers and 



fruit is also attached.] 



[The seeds hardly differ in size, colour, shape, or taste fro.n those of 



A angnstifolUna, but the shape of the flower and the smooth fruit a. 



represented in the drawing are unlike those of tliat species.] 



For a description of this species, see ' Jour. Linn. Soc.,' 

 vol. vii., p. 110. 



536. Amomum lonsiscapum. Hook, f. ("Amomum sp. X.Y.Z.") 



a. Stem, leaves, and detached scape. 



The scape from Dr. Daniell, Sierra Leone, 1854. The 

 foliage gathered on 27 Aug., 1874, from a plant I 

 raised at Clapham Common from seeds collected on 

 Sugar Loaf Mountain, Sierra Leone, and given me 

 by Mr. Bockstall, missionary, 6 July, 1871. 



b. Ditto. 



c. Stem and leaves from plant in hothouse ; 10 Oct., 1873. 



Leaves spotted with red on the under side. 



536. Amomum Mannii, 0. and H. 



a. Leaves and drawing of inflorescence. 



No 1902 ; Gustav Mann ; Corisco Bay, Oct., 1862. Plant 

 four to five feet high. The flowers are preserved in 

 spirit at Kew. See 'Jour. Linn. Soc.,' vol. vi..., 

 page 110. 



