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555. AMOMUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM, continued. 



Note. This specimen was brought from Sierra Leone by Dr. W. F. 

 Daniell, under the name of Barsalo, or Bastard MeUigetta, and was attri- 

 buted by him to Amomum Daniellii, Hook. f. P. J. [1] , vol. xii., p. 72. 

 Hanbury has since shown that Darnell's and Fleurot's plants arc identi- 

 cal, and that Sonnerat's name of A. angustifolium was the one first 

 given to the plant. P. J. [8], vol. ii., p. 642. 



The plant differs from A. Melagaeta in having yellow flowers. 



The seeds resemble those of A. Clusii in being polished, but are rather 

 smaller, of a chestnut brown colour, have a blackish ring near the hilnm, 

 and under a lens are seen to be speckled with black dots, which seem to 

 be underneath the polished surface. Their taste is slightly sweet and 

 acid, but scarcely aromatic. This drug is the " grande cardamome de 

 Madagascar" of Guibourt, Hitt. des Drogues, vol. ii., p. 216 (1849), but 

 not the " Cardamomum majus " of ancient writers, which is the Kora- 

 rima cardamom of Pereira. See below. See also note under Cardamo- 

 mum majus in the Collection of Old Englith Drugs and the Hanbury 

 Collection. 



556. AMOMUM CARDAMOMUM, L. 



a. Fruits. (Round, or Cluster Cardamom.) 



Note. The fruit is figured in Per. Slat. Med., vol. ii., p. 243, and Hut. 

 des Drog., vol. ii., p. 215. It is used in the East like Malabar carda- 

 moms. Pharmacographia, p. 687. The seeds taste exactly like those of 

 the official cardamoms. See Collection of Old English Drugs. 



557. AMOMOM CEREUM, Hook.f.; A. PALUSTRE, Afz. 



a. Fruit. Presented by Dr. W. F. Daniell. 



Note. The fruit is figured in P. J. [1] , voL xvi., p. 615. The pow- 

 dered seed is made into an ointment, and used as a perfume by the 

 Timneh women in Sierra Leone, W. Africa. See P. J. [1], vol. xvi., 

 p. 516. 



558. AMOMUM CITRATUM, Pereira. 



a. Fruit. 



Note. The fruit is of a deep or purplish brown colour. The seeds 

 have a strong taste of oil of 'verbena, much more powerful than in 

 A. medium. From that drug the seeds are distinguished by being brown 

 and silky, those of A. medium being dull and of a paler brown colour. 

 Grana paradisi, No. 12057, in the Sloanian Collection of the British 

 Museum, belongs to this species. For fig. of this specimen see Per. Mat. 

 Med., vol. ii., pt. i., p. 251, fig. 109. P. J. [1] , vol. is.., p. 313. 



559. AMOMUM CLUSII, Smith. 



a. Fruit. (Long-seeded Cardamom.) 



Note. This includes a fruit of the specimen presented to Dr. Pereira 

 by Dr. T. W. C. Martius. See Per. Mat. Med., vol. ii., pt. i., p. 251 ; 

 and Hitt. des Drog., vol. ii., p. 223, fig. 398. The seeds of both are glossy 

 and smooth, greenish brown, about the size of a linseed, but blunter and 

 thicker, and have scarcely any taste, and under a lens are seen to be 

 speckled with elongated whitish dots underneath the polished surface. 



560. AMOMUM GLOBOSUM, Lour. 



a. Fruit. (Large Bound China Cardamom.) 



b. Seeds. 



