SOME RARE KINDS OF CARDAMOM. 107 



which alone seein sufficient to prove its distinctness from the IBS 5. 

 Languas vulgare of Koenig, whose seeds are described in the 

 Observations Botanicce of Ketzius (Fasc. iii., pp. 64, 65) as " Carda- 

 momo minori simillima" 



The seeds of the Ovoid China Cardamom are used by the Ovoid China 



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Chinese for a variety of disorders, and, according to Loureiro, 

 are also employed as a condiment. 



There are examples of the Ovoid China Cardamom in Dr. 

 Burges's collection at the Ebyal College of Physicians, under 

 the erroneous designation " Grana Paradisi in capsulis" 



At the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris, I have observed 

 a specimen of the same fruit, labelled Qud-leu. 



GALANGA CARDAMOM. (FIGS. 10, 11.) 



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^ Hung-tow-kow. 



I have applied the term Galanga Cardamom to a small me- 

 dicinal fruit received under the above Chinese names from my 

 friend Mr. Lockhart, of Shanghai. 



The specimen consists of capsules about half an inch in length Galanga 

 and three lines in breadth, of an oblong form, somewhat con- 

 stricted in the middle, or occasionally pear-shaped; some are 

 obscurely three-sided. Each fruit is prominently crowned with 

 the remains of the calyx ; in a few, the m 



louver extremity is still attached to a 

 slender pedicel. Most of the capsules 

 are much shrivelled on the outside, ap- .' 

 parently from having been gathered 

 while immature -(Fig. 11) ; a few, how- 

 ever, retain a plump and smooth ap- 

 pearance (Fig. 10). The pericarp varies 

 externally in colour (according to its 



maturity?), from a pale tO a deep red- GaZan0acWamom(fruits G and seeds). 



dish-brown ; internally it is whitish. 



It is glabrous in the mature fruits, thin and brittle, not splitting 



