244 BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



with a perpendicular pollen-bearing line, and end- 

 ing in a membranous point. 



Pi st. Germ beneath, protuberant, roundish, ob- 

 scurely three sided, externally soft with down. 

 Style, thread -form, long as the filament ; , the top of 

 which nearly closes round it. Stigma headed, 

 perforated. 



Per. Capsule (or Capsular berry, not bursting in a 

 determinate mode) oblong-roundish, three-striped, 

 smooth, crowned with permanent calyx and corol; 

 with "a brittle coat, almost black without, pearly 

 within. 



Seeds lopped, with three or four angles, very 

 smooth, enclosed within three oblong, rounded, 

 soft, membranous integuments, conjoined by a 

 branchy receptacle ; in each parcel, four or five. 



Interior Border of the corol, pink and white ; under 

 lip internally milk-white, with a rich carmine- 

 stripe in each of its divisions. Seeds aromatic, 

 hotter than Cardamoms. Leaves alternate, sheath- 

 ing, oblong, pointed, keeled, most entire, mar- 

 gined, bright grass green above, very smooth ; 

 pale sea-green below. Stem compressed, three or 

 four feet long, bright pink near its base, erect, end- 

 ing in a beautiful panicle. Peduncles many flower- 

 ed -, bracts few, lance-linear, very long, withering. 

 Root fibrous, with two or three bulbous knobs, 

 light brown and spungy within, faintly aromatic. 

 Although the Taraca has properties of an Amo- 



mum y and appears to be one of those plants which 



Rcmphius names Globba, yet it has the air of a 



Languas, 



