Botany of Southern India. 



Amomum dealbatum, (Roxb.). A'naimalais with the pre- 

 ceding. 



Amomum muricatum (R H. B.). 3-5 feet high, leaves 

 broad-lanceolate, almost sessile from the apex of their* 

 sheaths which end in an entire ligula, and are furnished 

 with a knob-like gland at the base of the very short petiol 

 leaves deep green shining, glabrous on both sides 12 inches 

 long 4 inches broad, spikes (at first appearing as a globular, 

 head) short peduncled, radical, lower bracts small, pink, 

 embracing the peduncle, upper ones crumpled turning brown 

 before the flowers expand, calyx double, the outer on<^ 

 tubular, shorter than the inner, 2 cleft at apex, inner one 3 

 cleft ; exterior segments of corol white to yellowish, lateral 

 ones narrow, superior broad-ovate, not ending in a horn, lip 

 deeply 3 parted lower lobe protruded and emarginate, 2 

 spurred at the base, yellow with a broad streak of red spots 

 filament longish broad more than twice the length of the 

 anther, anther-crest semilunar, very large, entire, yellow ; 

 scales of the germ 2 short and thick, the stigma rising up 

 between them :"capsule globular pink-coloured size of a green- 

 gage, concave at the top, beset with numerous stout 

 prickles. 



A'naimalais : moist forests, 2,000 to 3,000 feet 



