ZING1BERACEJE. 



lower spreading, 2-parted, with bifid lobes. According to Roxburgh 

 the roots of this plant have an agreeable fragrant smell, and a some- 

 what warm bitterish aromatic taste ; but they are unknown in London, 

 although used medicinally by the Hindoos. It does not produce the 

 Galanga major of druggists, and seems to have no other right to its 

 specific name than what it derives from its supposed identity with the 

 Katsjula Kelengu, of Rheede (xi. t. 41.). Fee says the roots are the 

 Radices Alpiniae spuriae. Offic. True Galanga is the produce of Al- 

 pinia Galanga, which see. (No. 1201.) 



1193. K. rotunda Linn. sp. pi 3. Roxb.fi. ind. i. 16. 

 (Rheede xi. t. 9.) Cultivated all over India; its native 

 place unknown. 



Leaves oblong, coloured. Spike radical, appearing before the leaves, 

 which are oblong, waved, and usually stained underneath. Upper seg- 

 ment of the inner series of the corolla lanceolate, acute. Flowers very 

 fragrant. This was supposed to produce the Zedoaries of the drug- 

 gists: and Fee continues to refer them to it. But it is clear that 

 Zedoary is produced by Curcuma Zedoaria ; see No. 1 186, and Roxb. 

 fl.ind.\. 17. and 24. 



AMOMUM. 



Inner limb of the corolla 1 -lipped. Filament dilated beyond 

 the anther, with an entire or lobed crest. Capsule often berried, 

 3-celled, 3-valved. Seeds numerous, arillate. Herbaceous 

 perennials, with articulated creeping rhizomata. Leaves in 2 

 rows, membranous, with their sheaths slit. Inflorescence spiked, 

 loosely imbricated, radical. Blume. 



1194. A. Cardamomum Linn. sp. pi. 2. Roxb.fi. ind. i. 37. 

 N. and E. handb. i. 248. pi med. t. 64. (Rumph.v. t. 65. 

 f. 1.) Mountainous parts of Java, Sumatra, &c. ; commonly 

 cultivated in gardens in India. 



Rhizoma creeping under the surface of the soil, like that of ginger, 

 but smaller, less fleshy, more ligneous and white ; from which descend, 

 and spread, many fleshy fibres. Stems rising obliquely to the height of 

 from 2 to 4 feet, clothed with the smooth deep green sheaths of the 

 leaves. Leaves alternate, bifarious, connected by short petioles with 

 their smooth stem-clasping sheaths ; lanceolate, entire and smooth 

 on both sides, tapering into a long, and very fine point, from 6 to 12 

 inches long. Spikes radical, sessile, oblong, appearing amongst the 

 stems, half-immersed in the earth, loosely imbricated, with 1-flowered 

 lanceolate, acute, villous, nerved, scarious, ash-coloured bracts. Brac- 

 teolae striated downy, scarious, 2-toothed, tubular. Flowers opening in 

 succession, and not very conspicuous. Calyx clavate, tubular, downy, 

 3-toothed, the length of the tube of the corolla. Tube of the corolla 

 slender and slightly incurved; the outer series of 3 nearly equal 

 pellucid divisions ; the lip, or inner series, rather longer than the exte- 

 rior, somewhat 3-lobed, with a crenate, curled margin ; its middle lobe 

 yellow, with two rosy lines leading up to it from the mouth of the tube. 

 Filament scarcely half so long as the limb of the corolla, incurved over 

 the mouth of the tube. Anther double, large, fleshy, with a large 



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