SOME RARE KINDS OF CARDAMOM. 



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LARGE ROUND CHINA CARDAMOM. (FIG. 1.) 



Large round China Cardamom. Pereira, Elements of Materia 

 Medica, part ii. (1840), p. 699, fig. 133. 



Large round China Cardamom. Pereira, Elem. of Mat. Med. } 

 ed. 2, vol. ii. (1842), p. 1035, fig. 203. 



Autre Cardamome rond de la Chine. Guibourt, Histoire des 

 Drogues, ed. 4, tome ii. (1849), p. 215, fig. 115. 



Round Cardamom. Pereira, Mem. of Mat. Med. } ed. 3, vol. ii. 

 (1850), p. 1139, fig. 255, 256. 



Groszes rundes Chinesische Kardamom. Martin y, Encyk- 

 lopddie der Medicinisch - pharmaceutischen Natur alien und 

 Rohwaarerikunde, Bd. ii. (1854), p. 776. 



^S ;; Tsaou-kow. 



I xtfik. 



Fine specimens of tins fruit were procured by my brother, 

 Mr. Thomas Hanbury, at Singapore in the drug shops of which 

 place, he tells me, it appears by no means plentiful. Deprived 

 of the husk (fig. 2), I have also received it from Canton and 



1855. 



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FIG. 1. Large round China Cardamom (fruits and seeds). 



Shanghai, from the latter place under the above-mentioned 

 character, Tsaou-Jcow, the same name, I presume as that given 

 by Loureiro, as applied to his Amomum globosum. 1 In the 

 Sloanian collection in the British Museum, there is a small 

 specimen of this fruit. 



1 Flora Cochinchinensis. Berolini, 1793, t. i., p. 6. 



