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Amomum magnificum, Benth & Hook. f. A species of large dimensions, reaching, when planted out in a rich soil, up to a height of 20 ft. : rhizomes branching freely, stout, dark brown, green when young: lf.-st. erect, arching at top, terete: Lvs. distichous shortly petiolate, lanceolate or elliptic, 1-2 ft. long, acute, glabrous, upper side green, (red when young) Tower side suffused with reddish brown: peduncle stout, solitary, 2-5 ft. high; infl. a globose head with large bright scarlet and green bracts, outer bracts 3 in. long, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate; fls. numerous, densely crowded near the center of the head; sepals lanceolate, an inch long, primrose, tinted with red; petals lanceolate, slightly longer than the sepals, yellow, tinted with red; lip longer than the corolla-lobes, red, with a margin of yellow. Mauritius. B.M. 3192 (as Alpinia).
 
Amomum magnificum, Benth & Hook. f. A species of large dimensions, reaching, when planted out in a rich soil, up to a height of 20 ft. : rhizomes branching freely, stout, dark brown, green when young: lf.-st. erect, arching at top, terete: Lvs. distichous shortly petiolate, lanceolate or elliptic, 1-2 ft. long, acute, glabrous, upper side green, (red when young) Tower side suffused with reddish brown: peduncle stout, solitary, 2-5 ft. high; infl. a globose head with large bright scarlet and green bracts, outer bracts 3 in. long, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate; fls. numerous, densely crowded near the center of the head; sepals lanceolate, an inch long, primrose, tinted with red; petals lanceolate, slightly longer than the sepals, yellow, tinted with red; lip longer than the corolla-lobes, red, with a margin of yellow. Mauritius. B.M. 3192 (as Alpinia).
 
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