MONANDROUS PLANTS. ^55 



from thence introduced into this garden, where it flowers more or less the 

 whole year, but chiefly during the hot season. It is also an elegant spe« 

 cies, and holds a middle rank between nutans and cakarata, 



6. Alpinia calcarata. Roscoe in Trans, of Linn, socH. 347= 



Leaves na/rrow-lanceolar, polished. Spikes termmal/erect, compound. Lip 

 ovate-oblon^^ with curled bilobate apex. 

 Renealmia calcarata. Andr. Bot. Repos. 6. t. 421: 



From China it was introduced into this garden in 1799, where the same 

 root quickly produced innumerable stems, of about the thickness of a cbmi- 

 mon ratan, and about 3, or 4 feet long; and in flower more or less the 

 whole year, but chiefly in March, and ApriL 



7. Alpinia Cardamomum R. , 



i .:■■'.: -^ .( 



Scapes from the base of the stems^ra^ous^ procnmbent. Lip r^-lohed^, 

 with calcarate base. •■ . 



Amomum Cardamomum. R. Ind. pi, 3. N. 226. 



A'momum fepens^. Linru.. sp. pi: ed- W^t?(^'l', '9: -SoHTi^riTfrl^c^ 



JBlettariv, '^^efe^i wa?. .1:1. /, 4/ and 5.-. 



Cardamomum minus. PJiarm. Lond. and Edinh., 



^la^ one of its numerous S'a7?scrz7 names. 



Elachi, or Elaichi of the Hindus, and^ Btngatese; 



Ailum-chedy of the Malahars on that Coa^t, ^ , 



A NATIVE of the m'dunt-ainous parts- of Mt^a^ar, Where it isfoiindboth 

 wild, and cultivated'. In the latter* state, it begins tohlossoni during the 

 first rains, when about 4 years old ; and the ripe fruit is gathered, in I^o- 

 vember. It continues to be produdlive till about the seventh year^,. w^ien 

 it is usual to cut it down, and from the roots other- stems rise,- vyliigl^^r^ 

 treated as before. 



