60 PLANTS OF PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND. 



mouth three toothed. Corol : One petaloid, funnel shape, 

 irregular ; tube dilated at the throat, declining. Limb three 

 parted, with divisions ovate, twice as long as the calyx, white; 

 the upper larger. Nectary, one leafed, petal form, trapeziform, 

 concave, declining ; the length of the Corol ; without of a 

 whitish yellow ; within yellow with scarlet spots : arising from 

 the throat of the tube together with the lower division of the 

 Corol. Stam : Filament one, broad, inside plain, three furrow- 

 ed, outside convex, smooth ; erect, shorter by one half than the 

 Corol ; arising from the throat of the tube, together with' the 

 upper division of the Corol. Anther oblong, erect, inside deep- 

 ly furrowed ; emarginate. Pist : Germ below, globular, tomen- 

 tose, crowned with a glandular corpuscle, which is cylindrical 

 and furrowed towards the upper division of the Corol. Style 

 thread form, longer than the stamen ; embraced by the furrow 

 of the Anther. Stigma funnel form, with an ovate mouth. 



I have not seen the fruit, but judge it to be the same with 

 Loureiros' plant, from the agreement of the other parts. The 

 infusion of the root is used by the Malays as a stomachic. 



3. Amomum tiliforttie, H. (Hedychiiun coronarium, L.). 



Spec. Dili'. Stem two edged ; spike terminal, oblong, nod- 

 ding ; scales spathulate, two flowered ; leaves lanceolate, most 

 entire, smooth. 



Description. 



Stem : herbaceous, two feet in height, erect, two edged, 

 smooth, porous, lamellated, formed of the petioles of the leaves, 

 vaginant, equitant. Leaves : alternate, lanceolate, most entire, 

 smooth, without nerves, stipule : a membranaceous margin, 

 at the apex of each petiole, within the base of the leaf. Spikes 

 terminal, oblong, nodding. Flowers in pairs, sessile, white, 

 sweet-smelling. Calyx spathe (or scale) spatulate, rolled up 

 into a cylinder, two flowered ; the flowers spreading successive- 

 ly. Proper perianth tubular, splitting at the side, mouth three 

 toothed, with toothlets lanced. Cor : one petaled ; Tube three 

 times as long as the calyx, thread form, erect, a little reflected, 

 limb six cleft ; the upper division large, roundest emarginate ; 



Jour. Straits Branch 



