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AMOMUM maximum, 
Tall Amomum. 
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MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ScrraMinem. he Pty 
AMOMUM U.—Perianthium limbo interiore unilabiato. Anthera cris- 
tata; crista lobata vy. integra. Capsula 3-locularis, 3-valyis. . Semina plurima 
arillata. . Embryo simplex albuminosus et: yitellosus. Roxb, fl. ind. ex. 
Anglica vers. pauld mutatis terminis. 
A. maximum; foliis petiolatis lanceolatis subtis villosis, spicis ovalibus 
epigeis, bracteis lanceolatis; labello elliptico, crist4 anthere integra lunu- 
lata, capsulis rotundis enneapteris. » Roxb. 1. ¢. 
Amomum maximum. | Smith in Rees. in supplemento. Rimer et Schultes 
sp. pl. 1.571. Sprengel systema vegetabilium, 1.11. 
Radix ...... Culmus erectus, glaber, vaginatus, basi bulbosus. Folia 
terminalia, 2-3, patentia, 14 pedalia, angusto-lanceolata, atro-viridia, con- 
colora, ‘supra glabra, sublucida, subtd's tomentosa: Flores in capitulo radicali 
ovali, scapo brevi, squamoso. . Bractes: lanceolate, ferruginee, perianthio 
appresse, exterioris longitudine. Perianthium exterius tubulosus, infra fissus, 
apice trilobus, sphacelatus, pallide rubescens. Perianthium interius limb; 
exterioris laciniis 3, patentibus, subsecundis, oblongis, canaliculatis, obtusis, 
citrinis, sublobatis, membranaceis, in tubo brevi arcuato coadunatis ; labello 
obovato, membranaceo, margine erispato crenato, subdiaphano, venoso, laciniis 
longiore, bast utrinque dentato. Anthera in labello imcumbens, oblonga, apice 
rentformis, marginata : loculis approximatis, parallelis, in ampléxu suo stylum 
foventibus. Ovarium ....... Stylus filiformis, glaber ; basi corpusculis 
duobus puberulis. Stigma obliquum, capitatum, infundibulare, compressum, 
margine oris ciliato. apt 
We were favoured with this plant, in flower, in June’ 
1824, from the garden of his Grace the Duke of Northum- 
berland, at Sion House, where it had been cultivated for 
several years. Its history had been lost. it 
The specimen was ni na healthy state, which may 
explain the cause of its not having arrived at the height 
which Amomum maximum attains in the East Indies. 
In the Malay Islands, of which it is a native, it reaches 
the stature of a tall man. It is proper to remark, that the 
plant now represented differs from Roxburgh’s description, 
in not having the outer segments of the inner perianthium 
