Flora indica, or, Descriptions of Indian plants : reprinted literatim from Carey's edition of 1832 / by the late William Roxborough.
- William Roxburgh
- Date:
- 1874
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Flora indica, or, Descriptions of Indian plants : reprinted literatim from Carey's edition of 1832 / by the late William Roxborough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Amointan. reclined, oblong, acute ; margin* slightly waved ; smooth on both sides ; length, cxchirive of the petiole, about nine inehes. and about four or five broad. Petioles, including the sheath- ing base, from thr.v to four inehes long, deeply channelled. and smooth. Spike from the centre of the leaves, its short scape entirely hid by their sheaths, the rest looseh imbricated, with larjrt*. ovate, obtuse, expanded coloured bracten : the superior sterile, and niore deep \ coloured as in the other species of this family ; but here, and in no other that 1 ha\e \ et stxm, are the whole deeply coloured. Flamers small, of a dull dark pink colour, except the lower segment of the inner border, which is tinged with yellow. Calyx inflated, obscurely three-toothed, sea reel v half the length of the tulle of the enrol. Tube of the enrol suh-cylm- dric ; throat campanula te. The border, stamen, and pistil, as well as the uectarial scales of Kiinig, as in the other sjiecies, already descrilied. ] 7. C. pe.tiolata. 11. Hulls mid palmate tubers few and small ; inward colour pale yellow ; tubers numerous, pendulous, on short fusiform fibres. Lean s long-pet ioled, oblong, ovate with the base roundish (this is the only species known to me, in which they have this torn.) The whole plant uniformly green, except the lilac-coloured coma of the spike. A native of I'egu, and from thence sent by Mr F. Carey to the Botanic garden at Cal- cutta, where it blossoms in August. Obs. THU species differs conspicuously from all my other curcuma in the cordate shape of the leares The spike is central, as in the other late flowering species, its coma small, and of a lilac colour ; the bractcs very perfectly united almost to the broad, reuifonu apex, forming uncommonly deep pouches for the small yellow Jlotccrs. Pago Carey Ed- I. 37 AMOMTJM. Schreb. yen. plant. N. 8. Corolla with the interior border unilabiate. Anther double, surmounted with an entire, or lobnte crest Capsule three-celled, three-valved. Seeds many, willed. Embryo simple, and furnished with both perisperm and vitellus. 1. A. cardamomum, Linn. spec. pi. ed. If illd. 1. 8. leaves short qictioled, lanoeolar. Spikes half immersed in the earth, loosely imbricated with villous, lanceolate, acute, one-flowered hruetes. Lip with the anterior margin three- lulus!. Crest three-iobed. Cartlamomuin minus. Humph. A nth. p. 152. t. Go./. 1. A native of Sumatra, and other islands to the eastward of tin* Bay of Bengal, and sent by lb-- Charles Campbell from Benooolen t<> the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it blossoms in April. Road perennial, creeping under the surface of tbe soil, like that of ginger, but smaller, I. less Ik-shy, more ligneous, and white ; from which descend, and spread, many fleshy fibres. 38 Stems about biennial, several rising obliquely to the height of from two to four feet, ulsiiit as thick as a stout ratlin, invested in the smooth, deep grcetl sheaths of the leaves. Leares alternate, btfarious, sliort-potioled on their smooth stein-olasjang slieatlis ; from hroud-lan- eeolate below, to narrow-lanceolate at top, entire and smooth on botli aides : point long, and very fine ; from six to twelve inches long. Spikes radical, sessile, oblong, ap|n-nriug amongst tile stems, half immersed in the earth, loos- iy imbricated with one-flowered, iauceolate, acute, villous, nervous, si ■ariose, asli-coloun-d braet*-s ; when old tiieir brittle Pqts are often broken off. Rraeies ; besides the exterior one-flowered ones, just mentioned, there is nti inner, striated, downy, seariose, two-toothed, tubular one, (which I have sometimes considered an exterior and inferior calyx, and which Kiinig sometimes called an involucre,) inserted round the base of the germ. Flowers opening in succession, and not very conspiciiinis. Calyx clavate, tubular, downy, three-tootlietl, length of the tube of the enrol. Tube of the enrol, slender, and slightly incurved. Exterior border of three subequal fxdlucid divisions. Lip, or inner border, rather longer than the exterior great Ixirder. somewhat three-lobed, with a erennte, curled margin ; middle lota* yellow, with two rosy line* leading up to it from the mouth of the tube. Filament scarcely half so long as the border of the enrol, incurred over the mouth of the tube. There is a slender subulate horn on each side of the Iwse of the fila- ment. and nearly its length. Anther double. Large, fleshy, with a large, three-iobed, concave crest ; infundibulifonn stigmu rising through a deep gnsive between the two |>o!lotiifcrotis lolies. Germ beneath, downy, and crowned with the two uectarial scales, within the base of the tube of the eond ; in this species they are short, and truncated. Obs. The sets Is are to the taste agreeably aromatic, and are used by the Malays as a substitute for the true Cardamomum of Malubar. I. 2. A. anyuxt folium. Linn. spec. pt. ed. Willd.l.p.S. 31) litres broad-lanceolate. Spikes elevated, linear-oblong, compact ; elacate tirades oblong, rather pointed. Lip obovato, euneate, entire. Crest three-toothed. Auiomiim august folium. Son >n rat. it. 2f. 137. A native of Maiiagascar. From the island of Mauritius Captain Tennant bronght. plunt* thereof to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, in 1802, where they grow freelv, and blos- *om at various times of the year. Kvery part of the plant, when bruised, or wounded, diffuses a strong, but pleasant aromatic smell. Root perennial, tuberous, horizontal ; strong fleshy fibres, together with runners, issue from the crown, or bulb ; by these runners tbe plant soon spreads, and by these it is easily multiplied. Stems numerous, straight, round, smooth, rising to the height of from six to teu feet Leaves alternate, bifarious, suh-sessile on their slieatlis, hroad-lauceolatl•, fine-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28120024_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
