On the Cultivation of Rare Plants. 



exceedingly at Chapel Allerton, it did not flower till after I 

 had left that place, probably from my dividing its roots too 

 often, being anxious to encrease so curious a plant ; but the 

 late Sir Wilford Lawson, who purchased my collection, 

 was so obliging as to send me two specimens. 



Alexis Grandiflora. MSS. Amomum grandiflorum. 

 Smith Ex. Bot. v. 2. p. 163. t. 111. 



Introduced by Thomas Furly Forster, Esq. in 1794, 

 who raised it from seeds gathered at Sierra Leone, by Pro- 

 fessor Afzelius. It differs from the true Amomum, both of 

 old and modern botanists, very materially, in the structure 

 of the fruit ; nor have I yet examined any plant, from the 

 same country, which can be joined either to that genus, or 

 Margona. It sends up off-sets abundantly, and the best time 

 to divide them is in the end of February or beginning of 

 March. 



Alexis Bifurca. MSS. Amomum exscapum. Sims in 

 Ann. Bot. v. l.p. 549. t. 16. 



Introduced by Mr. Conrad Loddiges at the same time 

 with the preceding ; in his stove it has repeatedly flowered* 

 and requires the same treatment. 



Zingiber Luridum. Par. Loncl. n. 119. cum Ic.nondnm 

 ed. Zingiber casumunar. Sims in Bot. Mag. n. 1426. cum Ic. 

 — Roxb. in As. Res. v. 11. p. 347. t. 7. Amomum Zanthoriza. 

 Roxb. MSS. n. 511. Car Pus- poo Hindostanis. 



This species grows wild in moist vallies of the Circars, 

 from whence it was sent, in 1807, to the late Right Hon. 

 Charles Greville. It flowered in his stove the year after* 

 and a description of it was then printed for the Paradisus, 



