126 ODOEOGRAPHIA. 



Fruct., i., p. 34, t. xii., fig. i ; Fructus Cajiiputi, Trew, Commercium 

 Litterarium Xiirimbergae, p. 129, t. 1, fig. 7-11 ; Cardamomum 

 handaense Martius ; Malioohoo of the natives of Sierre Leone and 

 Palaiiciqjon in the Mandingo language. It is found at Goto, Cape 

 St. Mary and Gambia. This fruit is ovate, pointed, somewhat 

 striated, about two inches long. It is figured in Pereira, Mat. 

 Med., ii., pt. i., p. 253. The seeds (semina cajujmti), Trew, are about 

 the size of Grains of Paradise, ovate, or somewhat oblong, or 

 nearly globular, polished and variously angular, of a greenish-grey 

 or leaden-grey colour, with an umbilicated scar surrounding the 

 hilum. The seeds yield a volatile oil by distillation in the 

 proportions of about 3 drachms to a pound;* this is pale yellow, 

 aromatic and camphoraceous, resembling cajuput oil, but less 

 penetrating. The white-purplish flowers of the plant are stalked 

 (in this respect differing from those of A. Melagucta). 



" Bastard Melligetta " is the common name of Amomuni 

 angustifolium, Sonn. ; Syn. A. nemorosum Boj.f ; A. Danielli^ 

 Hooker fil. The drawings made from Daniell's specimens are 

 reproduced by Pereira in his Mat. Med., ii., pt. i., p. 252. It very 

 nearly resembles A. Clusii. It is a native of the Gold and Slave 

 Coasts, and abundant at Fernando Po and Clarence Town. This 

 tall and handsome species grows from 8 to 9 feet high. The 

 flowers produced in June and July are of a beautiful yellow 

 colour,^ thus differing from the true Melligetta and other "West 

 African Amoma. 



Other species yielding products analogous to Cardomoms, little 



known in commerce, and iaiperfectly described botanically, are : — 



A. racemosum, Clusius,§ producing globular fruit in bunches ; 



a native of the Moluccas. 

 A. glohosuni, Loureiro, the " Chinese round cardamom," Cao- 



Keii,oi which there are two varieties ; the "Large round" 



and the " Small round." |1 

 A. villosum, Loureiro, or "Hairy China cardamom" of 



Guibourt. Yang-chun-slia. *; 



* Cartheuser Dessert, nonnullfe select, physico-chem. ac medic?e. 



t Pharm. Journ. [i.], xiii., p. 639. 



X Pliaim. Journ. [i.], xii. p. 72. 



§ Exoticse, p. 377, and Blackwell's Herbarium, t. 371. 



Ii Guibourt. Hist, des Drogues, ii. p. 217. 



% Pliarm. Journ. [i.], xiv. p. 355, lig. 4 3. 



