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as they can employ their time more profitably; and when 

 they did collect, they were in the practice of mixing a 

 "spurious kind of cardamum with the true, the produce of 

 a plant belonging to the genus amomum, believed to have 

 been A- Cardamomum. 



Elettaria Cardamomum* 



Alpinia Cardamomum. 



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SWEET CANE. 



The sweet cane, or sweet flag, is cultivated by the Bur- 

 mese to a small extent for its medicinal properties, which 

 some writers say are not duly appreciated. This is the 

 sweet cane of the Scriptures, and not sugar-cane, as 

 some have supposed. 



Acorus Calamus. 



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SASSAFRAS. 



A species of sassafras abounds in the jungles, which 



seems to possess all the properties of the sassafras of 



America. I have never met with the tree in fruit or flower, 



but the leaf shows that it is not the Sassafras afficinarum. 



Sassafras. 



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MINT. 



Mint is sometimes cultivated by Europeans, but it does 

 hot flourish so well as in Europe, 

 Mentha nitidis. 



WILD MINT. 



There is a species of wild mint in Tavoy, of which Rox- 

 burgh wrote : " This plant is very fragrant, not less so 

 than our garden mint in Europe." 

 Dysophylla quadrifolia. 

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