N. 0. SCll AMINES. 
1255 
spurred nor crested. Filament pale-red, long, slender. Lateral 
stami nodes broad. Style slender, long, filiform. Stigma sub- 
globose. Ovary 3-celled ; placentas axillary. Capsule glabrous, 
globose. 
Use : —The aromatic root-stocks are used as a stomachic, 
carminative, tonic and stimulant. 
Client. comp.— The dried tubers have boon examined by J. C. Thresh 
(Pharm. Journ. [3] XV. 361). The proximate analysis gavo tho following 
results : — 
Soluble in petroleum other— 
Ethyl-methyl-paracoumarate 
... 3-01 5 . 0 
Fixed oil and odorous body 
... 29/ 
Soluble in alcohol— 
Indif. substance ppt. by tannin 
Acid resin, &c. 
Soluble in water— 
Glucoside or saccharine matter 
10 
Mucilage 
2-8 
Albuminoids, organic acid, Ac. 
1-9 
Starch 
52-3 
Moisturo 
13-6 
Ash 
4-6 
Cellulose, &c. ... 
16-2 
ioo-o 
(Pliarmacogr. Ind. 111 . 418-419.) 
1241. Amomum xanthioides, Wall., h.f.b.i., 
vi. 239. 
V crn. : — llayechi (H.) ; Elach ( B. ) ; Elam (Tam.), Elakulu 
(Tel.) ; Elacln (Mar.). 
Habitat : — Tenasserim ; Tavoy. 
Herbs, perennial, widely creeping. Root-stock leafy ; stems 
5-6ft. Leaves 1-l^ft. by ll-3in., firm, bright-green, lanceolate, 
glabrous. Spike globose, shortly peduncled, 1 in. , few-fid. 
Peduncle arcuate, glabrous, slender, 2-3in.; outer bracts 2 -fin., 
acute, glabrous, small, oblong. Corolla tube under 1 in. ; 
segments oblong, |-lin. Lip cochleariform, bifid, longer than 
the corolla-segments with an orbicular blade, 1-fin. broad, 
narrowed suddenly to a broad claw. Anther-crest auricled 
on each side, short, broad, entire. Capsule rigid, echinate, 
oblong-trigonous, pale-brown, under lin. long. 
