254 Dr. Maton’s additional Remarks 
not only retains the erroneous reference to Van Rheede's tab. 6, 
but adduces also, as a synonym, ** Cardamomum minus, Rumph. 
Amb. 5. p. 152. t. 65. f. 1," than which nothing can worse cor- 
respond with the Cardamom of Malabar. » Moreover, he changes 
his description, (which, in the first instance, was at least ambi- 
guous, and stamps the species with the character of * scapo 
simplicissimo, brevissimo," which is contradicted by his very re- 
ference to Van Rheede! Some: of this confusion has been re- 
moved by the laborious Willdenow, who; very properly; separates 
the references to Linnzus's Flora Zeylanica, Van Rheede's tab. 4 
and 5, and Hermann's Museum: Zeylanicum 66, from the charac- 
ters in the 2d edition of the Species Plantarum and from the 
Cardamonium minus of - Rumphius; -placing the former set of 
synonyms under Sonnerat’s name of Amomum repens, and the 
latter under the original name of A; Carddmomum. But, as I 
have before remarked, the Malabar Cardamom cannot. now, 
consistently with the new arrangement of Mr. Roscoe, be con- 
sidered as belonging to that genus ;- and (with all due respect for 
the high authority of the Berlin editor) I cannot consider it 
proper to attach the original trivial name of Cardumomum to the 
plant not producing the article bearing this appellation in the 
shops, and which plant will probably prove to be no other than 
the Amomum compactum of Solander. These observations apply 
also to the 4. Cardamomum of Mr. Roscoe. | 
The following is the result of my endeavours to ascertain. the 
true em o£ 
ELETTARIA CERE UM. 
Curdicuditials minus. Clusii de Aromat. lib. 1. c. 24. p. 187. 
AMatthiól: sur Diosc. f — ms = Bänder Annot: in WR | 
p. 1014. fig. | not 
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