19 TERMINALIA PROCERA. 
This very charming species is a native of the Andaman Islands, 
where it grows to be a tree of the first magnitude. From thence it 
was introduced, with many other valuable plants, into the Botanic 
Garden at Calcutta, by Col. Kyd in 1794, and now, 1802, the tree 
is about 30 feet high, with a slender, perfectly straight, smooth 
trunk; and several verticils, of horizontal branches, with bifa- 
rious, alternate branchlets. Flowering time, in Bengal, the month 
of March; fruit ripe in July. Its leaves, as in Terminalia Catappa, 
drop about the beginning of winter, in Bengal, and appear with 
the flowers in March. 
225. MIMOSA SUNDRA. 
Arboreous. Bark dark brown. Prickles stipulary, recurved, with 
decurrent base. Leaves bipinnate: pinnz and leaflets about 
twenty pair each. Spikes axillary, one, or in pairs, cylindri- 
cal. Stamens monadelphous. Legumes lanceolate, thin, two, 
or three-seeded. 
Sundra of the Telingas. 
Trunk straight, Bark dark rust-colour, cracked and _ scabrous. 
Branches erect, twiggy. 
Thorns stipulary, short, recurvate, remarkably strong and sharp; 
their base large, and considerably extended down upon the 
bark. 
Leaves bipinnate, four or five inches long. Pinne as far as twenty~ 
four pair, about an inch long. Leaflets about twenty pair, mi- 
nute, and often.swelled into various forms by the perforations 
of insects: an umbilicate, oblong gland just below the lower 
pair of pinne, and another between the exterior pair. 
Spikes axillary, generally single, or paired, cylindrical, short- 
peduncled, shorter than the leaves, yellow. 
Filaments numerous, united at the base into a tube. 
Legume lanceolate, membranaceous, smooth. 
Seeds two or three. 
A small straight tree, a native of the forests and mountains of 
Coromandel. 
The wood of this small tree is remarkably hard and heavy ; of 
avery deep chocolate colour ; the natives make pestles of it, to 
beat off the husk of paddy in large wooden mortars. 
226. AMOMUM CARDAMOMUM. 
Scapes radical, on the side of the stem, compound, flexuose, 
procumbent. 
Linn. spec. plant. \. p. 1. 
Amomum racemosum. Lamarck. encyclop. 1. p. 134. 
Amomum repens. Lunn. spec. edit. Willd. 1. p. 9, 
Elettari. Rheed. mal. 11. p. 9. tab. 4, and 5. 
Cardamomum minus. Pharmacop. Lond. and Edinb. 
Ailum-chedy, of the Tamuls (of the Malabar coast). 
Ela, one of its many Sancrit names. 
Amomum cardamomum. 
AMOMUM CARDAMOMUM, 20 
Ellatchi, of the Bengalese. 
E-la-ey-chee, of the Hindoos. 
Ebil, of the Arabians. 
Kakeleh, of the Persians. 
Root tuberous, with numerous fleshy fibres. 
Stems perennial, erect, smooth, jointed, enveloped in the spongy 
sheaths of the leaves ; from six to nine feet high. 
Leaves bifarious, subsessile on their sheaths, lanceolate, fine- 
pointed, somewhat villous above, and sericeous underneath, 
entire ; length from one to two feet. 
Sheaths slightly villous, with a rounded stipulary process rising 
above the mouth. 
Scapes several (three or four) from the base of the stems, resting 
on the ground, flexuose, jointed, ramous, from one to two feet 
long. 
Branches, or Racemes alternate, one from each joint of the scape, 
suberect, two or three inches long. 
Bractes solitary, oblong, smooth, membranaceous, nerved, sheath- 
ing ; one to each joint of the scape, which embraces the in- 
sertion of the raceme, or branch, issuing therefrom, and one 
at each of their joints. 
Flowers alternate, short-pediceled, solitary at each joint of the 
racemes, opening in succession as the racemes lengthen. 
Calyx above, widening to the three-toothed mouth, about three- 
quarters ofan inch long, striated with fine nerves, permanent. 
Corol withering. Tube slender, as long as the calyx. Border double. 
Exterior of three oblong, concave, nearly equal, pale greenish- 
white divisions. Inner obovate, greatly longer than the 
divisions of the exterior border ; margins some-what curled, 
with apex slightly three-lobed ; marked, chiefly in the 
centre, with purpled-coloured stripes; at each side of the 
insertion, close by the base of the filament, a small acute 
hornlet, as in several of our Indian amomums. 
Anther two-lobed, emarginate. 
Style slender. 
Filaments short, erect. 
Germ beneath, oval, smooth. 
shaped. 
Nectarial scales subulate, almost half the length of the tube of the 
corol. 
Capsule oval, somewhat three-sided, size of a small nutmeg ; 
three-celled, three-valved. Seeds many, angular. 
Stigma funnel- 
A native of the mountainous parts of the coast of Malabar. 
Flowering-time the rainy season; seed (the real cardamom) ripe, 
and gathered in November. 
The following satisfactory account of this interesting plant, has 
lately been transmitted to me, by Captain Dickenson, the com- 
manding officer of the district of Wynaad, where the Cardamom 
is cultivated. viz. 
‘* The Cardamom shrub, which is found in great abundance 
‘‘ among the western mountains of Wynaad, is called by the Ma- 
‘‘labars, Ailum-chedy, (the Ailum shrub); I cannot obtain any 
‘« satisfactory derivation of the true import of the word Ailum, 
‘‘ unless, as is alledged, it implies in the Sanscrit language, cele- 
‘* brity and eminence. 
‘* The shrub is said to be produced as follows :—Before the 
‘‘ commencement of the periodical rains in June, the cultivators 
‘* of the Cardamom ascend the coldest, and most shady sides of a 
