1 1 6 MONOOOTYLEDONES. 



537. Amomnm maximum, Roxb. 



(I. Rhizome, slum leaves, scapes of fruit and detached seeds. 

 Hangoosa, .lava; S. Binnendyk. Some seeds were sent to 

 Kew, 30 June, 1871, and others sowed at Clapham 

 Common, 29 June, 1871. 

 [Seeds small ellii>ticjil, dull lirown, taste unpleasant, scarcely aromatic] 



538. Amomum Melagueta, Roxb. Small variety. 



a. Rhizome and leaves, and young fruit. 



b. Ditto, wth detiitched leaves. 



Siena Leone; Rev. W. Young; 18.")4. This is the small 

 variety producing the small Grains of Paradise. 

 Dr. Daniell gave me a fruit of this variety, under 

 the name of "Tokolo M'pomah." Vide Hooker in 

 ' Journ. Bot.,' vol. vi., p. 293. 



c. Stem, leaves, and flower. 



Cultivated in hothouse, Clapham Common ; May, 1873. 



d. Flowers and di.ssected flower. 



From a plant which I raised from Grains of Paradise ; 

 found in commerce ; April, 1873. 



e. Leaves only. 



Ex Kew Herbarium ; Island of St. Thomas, West Africa ; 

 G. Mann; No. 10.54a; received Nov., 1861. 

 /. Detached leaves and scape and seeds. 



Prince's Island ; Gustav Mann ; (no number, adopted 

 number I0.")4b) ; received Dec, 1861. 



A pencil drawing of 10.54b, by D. H., accompanies sheet «, 

 and a coloured drawing of a fruit vnih a pencil 

 sketch of a transverse section of a fruit, received in 

 the fresh st^te from S. A. Benson, Grand Bassa, 

 Liberia ; 22 April, 1853. 



539. Amomum pieraroides, Beddome MSS. 



a. Stem, leaves, and fruit. 



Anamallies, in dense, moist forests, 2,000 to 3,000 feet 

 elevation. Flowers in July ; from Capt. Beddome ; 

 1861. 

 A drawing by Fitch of the dissected flower and fruit, and 

 a sketch of the structure of the stigma by D. H. 

 accompanies this specimen. 

 "The cup-shaped stijrnia is gibbous in hont, with the hairs on its 

 margin dissected, not upright, but over the cup ; the hairs of the other 

 side are directeil upwards." — D. H. 



