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Capsules pedicelled nearly spherical, from seven to eight 1855 - 

 lines in diameter, slightly striated longitudinally, and much Guibourt. 

 wrinkled in all directions by drying ; it is probable, however, 

 that the fruit was smooth when fresh. The capsule is thin, 

 light, easily torn, yellowish externally, white within. 

 The seeds form a globular coherent mass. They are 

 rather large and few in number, somewhat wedge- 

 shaped, of an ashy-grey, a little granular on the 

 surface, and present on the outer face a bifurcate 

 furrow shaped like a Y. They possess a strongly 

 aromatic odour and taste. 



Cardamom. 



To this description I may add that, compared with 

 the Large round China Cardamom the capsules in question are 

 more wrinkled in a network manner, more fragile and thin, and 

 (from immaturity ?) much less adherent to the mass of seeds ; they 

 are more globose, not triangular at the base, but flat, or even 

 depressed like an apple. Their colour, in all the specimens I 

 have seen, is a brownish-yellow. I cannot confirm M. Gui- 

 bourt's remark as to the highly aromatic properties of the seeds. 



This Cardamom, which appears to bear the same Chinese 

 name as the foregoing, is attributed by M. Guibourt to the 

 Amomum glolosum of Loureiro. 



HAIRY CHINA CARDAMOM. (FIGS. 4, 5.) 



Small round China Cardamom. Pereira, Mem. of Mat. Med. Hairy China 

 Part ii. (1840), p. 699. Cardamom. 



Small round China Cardamom. Pereira, Mem. of Mat. Med. 

 ed. 2, vol. ii. (1842), p. 1035, fig. 204. 



Cardamome poilu de la Chine. Guibourt, Hist, des Drogues, 

 e*d. 4, tome ii. (1849), p. 214, fig. 112. 



Hairy China Cardamom. Hairy' round China Cardamom. 

 Pereira, Mem. of Mat. Med., ed. 3, vol. ii. (1850), p. 1140, fig. 

 257, 258. 



Cardamoma Chinensia muricata ; Weichstachelige Kardamo- 

 men. Martiny, Encyklopddie der Med. Pharm. Naturalien und 

 Rohwaarenkunde, Bd.-ii. (1854), p. 776. 



Yang-chun-sha. 



Amomum 



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