Amomum. | SCITAMINE#. 1043 
A large herb ; leaves 2-3 feet long. Hind. Am-haldi ; 
Beng. Am-ada. Amada or Mango Ginge 
2150. Curcuma recuinaTa Roxb.; F. I. i. 36; F. B. I. vi. 214. 
Chota Nagpur, Singhbhdim: on Ge b 
A smallish herb; leaves 6-8 in. lon 
935. Amomum Linn. 
Herbs with elongate, leafy stems, and perennial, extensive root- 
stocks ; leaves usually oblong- i Flowers in dense spikes, 
_ direct from the rootstock; bracts imbricate. Sepals 3, connate in 
a cylindric, 3-toothed calyx. ps 8, connate in a corolla with 
cylindric tube; lobes oblong or linear-oblong, the upper often 
broader and more convex. Stamen 1 perfect; filament short, 
arcuate ; anther 2-celled ; cells divaricate, sometimes hairy, often 
with a petaloid crest ; Seas: staminodes minute or engi lip 
broad or ligulate. Carpels 8, connate in a 8-celled ovary; ovules 
many, superposed; placentas axial; style wiuican ; eae small 
subglobose, or larger and dorsally gibbous. Fruit indehiscent or 
ursting irregularly, sometimes beaked or winged or echinate. 
Seeds globose or truncate. 
Anther not crested ; lip narrow, margins incurved ; spike oblong 
linguiforme. 
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Anther crested ; lip broad ; spike globose :— 
ther-crest small, etches icier capsu ni BlODOSE :-<s0se6 ssviees dealbatum, 
Anther-crest large, trifid, with rounded lobes ; capsule sesh trigonous 
naticum, 
2151. AMomum may Benth. ; F. B. I. vi. 235. inet 
; linguiforme F. I 
1 engal, 
A tnd, with a stout rhizome and a leafy stem, 4-6 feet 
igh. : 
2152. AMomum peatpatum Roxb.; F. I. i. 43; F. B. I. vi. 239; 
«D: A, 967; 
E. whist Tippera; Chittagong; Behar; Chota 
Nagp 
A h ws ee leafy stem, sy feet high. 
2153, Amomum aromaticum Ro abs; FL b46s ©. Bs, 5. vi. 941; 
» A. 965. 
N. Ben 
A herb, with a leafy stem, 2-4 feet high, Vernac. 
Mérang- hachi. 
