SOME RARE KINDS OF CARDAMOM. 101 



The specimens of Amomum xanthioides collected by Gomez 185a - 

 and now in the collection of the Linnean Society are without Specimens 

 flowers, but well furnished with fruits, one bunch of which is 

 represented in Fig. 6. I have carefully compared this species 

 with its near ally A. aculeatum as figured by Boxburgh, 1 and 

 also with the specimen preserved in the herbarium of the 

 British Museum. In addition to the observation of Dr. Wallich, 



FIG. 6. Fruit of Amomum mnthioides, Wallich, from a specimen in the herbarium of 

 the Linnean Society. 



that in A. xanthioides the leaves are linear-lanceolate, while in 

 A. aculeatum they are cordate [-lanceolate], I may remark that 

 A. aculeatum appears to be a muck more robust species, with 

 larger fruit ; it has besides the spines upon the pericarp not 

 simple, but flattened and partially united two or three together, 

 a character very evident in the dried specimen, though not well 

 represented in Eoxburgh's figure. 



1 Asiatick Researches, vol. xi., p. 344, pi. vi. Fide also Flora Indica 

 (ed. Carey), vol. i., p. 40. 



