CONDIMENTS AND SPICES. 



Physicians," he has referred to a hypothetical plant, A. citratum, and the 

 other, the Korarima, or Guragie spice of Abyssinia, to the hypothetical 

 A. Korarima. Dr. Cleghorn, in his chapter on "Botanical Inquirenda" 

 (" Forests and Gardens of Southern India") Avrites, " The so-called wild or 

 bastard Cardamom of Siam is produced by Amomum xanthioides, Wallich, 

 a plant of which complete and well-preserved specimens are requested in 

 order that it may be described and figured. The seeds per se have been 

 imported into England, while the empty capsules are found in the drug- 

 shops of China. Are the latter exported from Siarn to China?" He also 

 states that information is required regarding the Yany-chun-sha (Hairy 

 China Cardamom) , Tsaou-kow (Round China Cardamom), Tih-che-tze 

 (Bitter Seeded Cardamom), and Qua-leu or Taou-kivo (Ovoid Cardamom), 

 of China. The Wild Cardamom of the Cape of Good Hope is the fruit 

 of Fagarastrum capense, Don. N. 0. 64. Xauthoxylacese. 



3N T . O. 236. IRIDACE^. IRIDS. 

 CrOCU.S sativUS. Allioni. Saffron Crocus. 



Linn. Syst. Triandria Monogynia. 



Vernacular. Kasmirajamma, Kunkuwa, Sans. Zofran, Keysur, 

 Hind. Khoongoomapoo, Tarn. Khoon-koomapoo, Kunkuma, Tel. 

 Kohoon, Cey. Koorkum, Zafran, Arab. Kerkum, Z afar an ? 

 Abeer ! Pers. Thanwen, Burmah. Saffaron, Connyer, Malaya. 



Habitat. Asia Minor, Cashmir? Naturalized over temperate 

 Europe. 



Remarks. The Carcos of the "Song of Songs," and Kp6<os of the 

 Greeks. At the Cape of Good Hope, the flowers of Lyperia crocea, Erkl. 

 N. O. 160. Scrophulariaceae, are substituted for Saffron under the 

 name of Geele boemefjes. 



N. O. 242. ULIACE.E. LILYWORTS. 

 Alllum sativum. Linn. Cultivated Garlic. 



Linn. Syst. Hexandria Monogynia. 



The bulb, Garlic. 



Vernacular. Mahooshooda, Lusuna ? Sans. Loshoon, Lushoona, 

 Rushoon, Beng. Lussim, Dec. Belluly, Can. Vvllay-poondoo, 

 Tarn. Velligudda, Tel. Soodooloonoo, Cey. Teriac-roivxiyan, 

 Arab. Seer, Pers. Tom, Egypt. Buwng-pootie, Malaya. 



Habitat. Sicily. Cultivated widely. 



Remarks. The o-Kopodov of Theophrastus and Dioscorides, and Alium 

 of Pliny. An alliaceous odour is found is several pl-ants, as in Petioena 

 telrandra, and Seguiera alliacea, of Brazil, N. O. 175. Petiveriacese. 

 Certain Meliads (N. O. 50) belonging to the genera, Hartighsea and 

 Dysoxylon, have fruits used as garlic in Java. 

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