254 Di: Maton's additional Remarks 



not only retains the erroneous reference to Van Rlieede's tab. 6, 

 but adduces also, as a s\'non3'm, '■^ Cardamomum minus, Ixumpli. 

 ^mb. 5. p. 152. t. 65. f. 1," than which nothing can worse cor- 

 respond with the Cardamom of Malabar. Moreover, he changes 

 liis description, (which, in the first instance, was at least ambi- 

 guous,) and stamps the species Avith the character of " scapo 

 simpUcissimo, brevissimo," which is contradicted by his very re- 

 ference to Van liheede ! Some of this confusion has been re- 

 moved by the laborious Willdenow, who, very properly, separates 

 the references to Linnaeus's jF/ora Zeylunica, Van Rlieede's tab. 4 

 and 5, and Hermann's Museum Zeylanicum 66, from the charac- 

 ters in the 2d edition of the Species Flantarum and from the 

 Cardamomum jnituis of Rumphius, placing the former set of 

 sj'uonyms under Sonnerat's name of Amumum repens, and the 

 latter under the original name of A. Cardamomum. 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 Cardamomum to tlie 

 plant 7Jof producing the article bearing this appellation in the 

 shops, and which plant will probably prove to be no other than 

 the Atnomum compactum of Solander. These observations apply 

 also to the A. Cardamomum of Mr. Roscoe. 



The following is the result of my endeavours to ascertain the 

 true synonyms of 



ELETTi\RIA Cakdamomum. 



Cardamomum minus. Clusii de Aromat. lib. 1. c. 24. p. 18?. 

 Matthiol. sur Diosc. (Pinet) p. 6, Bodcei Annot. in Theophrastum, 

 p. 1014. fig. 



Cardamomum 



