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an entire crest. The fruits of this species form in clusters and 

 their oval bractes are narrower than those of A. aromaticum. 



Amomum medium, Loureiro, Flor. Cochinch ; Sjn. Aljmiia 

 alha, Eoscoe ; Hellcnia alba, Willd. ; Heriticra. alba, Eetz. ; Languas 

 vulgare and Galanga alba, Koenig.* Specimens of this fruit are in 

 the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society. It is the " ovoid 

 China cardamom," described and figured by CTuibourt,f who states 

 that it is identical with the specimen labelled Tsao-r[Uo in the 

 Museum of Xatural History in Paris. The dried fruit is about the 

 size and shape of a nutmeg, yellowish grey (Ka?nig says scarlet 

 when recent). The seeds are larger than in any other kind, dull, 

 angular and somewhat pear-shaped. In the catalogue of the 

 Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society these seeds are stated to 

 have " an aromatic taste like that of oil of lemon-grass, but much 

 less powerful than those of A. cifratum" There is an analagous 

 fruit in the Museum of IS'atural History, Paris, labelled Qua- leu. 



The plant grows in the Province of Yu-nan. 



Amomum citratum, Pereira. Mat. Med., ii., pt. i., p. 251, fig 

 110.:|: A specimen of this fruit in the Museum of the Pharma- 

 ceutical Society is of a deep purplish-brown colour. The seeds are 

 angular, oblongj, larger than those of Malabar cardamoms, shining, 

 brownish-yellow, and have a large concave depression (hilum) at 

 one extremity. The seeds have a warm aromatic flavour analagous 

 to that of oil of lemon-grass or verbena, much more powerful than 

 in A. medium ; they are distinguished from the seeds of that drug 

 by being silky, more shining and of darker brown colour. The 

 fruits in tlie Sloanian collection of the British Museum, marked in 

 the catalogue 12057 " Grana Paradisi," belong to this species. 



Amomum cerum. Hooker fil. ; Syn. A. palustre, Afzelius. 

 Figured and described by Daniell in Pharm. Journ. [1] xvi., pp. 515 

 and 516. The powdered seed is made into an ointment and used 

 as a perfume by the Timneh women in Sierra Leone. 



Amomum macrospermom. Smith. The "Large-seeded 

 Guinea cardamom." The fruit, Zingiber Meleguetta, Gsertner de 



* Peieira, Mat. Med., ii., pt. i., p. 257, fig. 126; Pharm. Journ. [1], xiv., 

 p. 420, fig. 9. 



+ Hist, des Drogues, 7 edit,, ii., p. 218. 

 X Pharm. Journ. [i] ix., p. 313. 



