132 THE SCITAMINEZ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
for about 4 their length. Lip a little shorter, lateral lobes | 
rounded, median lanceolate acute. Anther oblong brown, beak 
curved yellow. Stigma transverse fringed all round with hairs. 
Singapore, Bukit Timah, etc. common. Johore, Bukit Tanah 
Abang; Batu Pahat (Kelsall). Malacca, Bukit Sadanen (1434 
Goodenough), Perak, Tanjong Hantu; Bruas (Dindings No. 
7224); Pahang, Tahan River. : 
Var. major. 
A very much larger plant than usual; leaves elliptic oblong 
acuminate 14 foot long, 5 inches across; sheaths glabrous, 
petiole almost wanting. Spike glabrous, thick with broad bracts, 
Flower 3 inches long. Corolla tube 2 inches. 
Pahang, Kwala Tembeling. Perak, Bujong Malacca (No. 
9820). <A very large and stout plant, about five feet tall, with 
thick stems broad stiff leaves and much larger flowers. Perhaps a 
distinct species but the form of the flowers seems to me the same, 
AMOMUM. 
This genus has been used to include a large number of very 
different plants, but I would propose to retain it for those only 
which were included under the section Hu-amomum of Bentham, 
Thus restricted, the Amomums are plants with leafy stems 
from two to € feet tall, the inflorescence a short dense obconic 
spike rising on a short peduncle from the root stock. The 
bracts lanceolate or ovate, containing one or more flowers en- 
closed in thin bracteoles. Calyx tube as long as the corolla 
tube, the corolla lobes oblong or lanceolate. Staminodes absent, — 
Lip large, often very large, and convolute. Stamen broad, with 
a rounded crest, and two horn-like or linear processes projecting 
from the upper angles. The style shorter than the crest. The 
fruit usually a succulent capsule, often covered with processes, 
and containing a large number of seeds. 
This excludes from the genus as described in the Fiora of 
British India, the genera Hornstedtia (Achasma and Stenochasma), 
Pheomeria and Cenolophon, and besides several other species 
such as Amomum biflorum Jack. (an Elleltariopsis) which appears 
to have got in by mistake. 
