26 I. VEGETABLES.— ORCHiDEiE. 



lant, stomachic, gr. x to 3ss, and used as spices. The yellow 

 zedoary dyes a pale yellow. 



Amomum verum, a. racemosum. Capsules, great cardamoms, 

 amomum in the bunchy cardamomum majus ; — A. cardamomum, 

 Elettaria cardamomum. Capsules, lesser cardamoms, cardamomum 

 minus. Seeds, cardamomi semina ; stimulant, drying, assisting 

 digestion, emmenagogue. 



Amomum gran a Paradisi. Seeds, grains of Paradise, 

 Guinea grains, grana Paradisi, cardamomum maximum ; aromatic, 

 stimulant, tastes very hot and biting like pepper ; used by some 

 in large doses to cure agues : also to give a false strength to 

 wine, beer, vinegar, and other liquors. 



Maranta Indica; — M. arundinacea. Roots yield Indian 

 arrow-root. 



Great galangale, Galanga major, Amomum galanga^ Maranta 

 galanga, Alpinia galanga. Root tuberous, covered with rings^ 

 brownish, inside dirty white, a faint aromatic smell, tastes hke 

 pepper and ginger mixed. 



Small galangale, Galanga minor, Costus, . . . . ? Amo^ 

 mum, . . . . ? Root warmer and more fragrant than galanga 

 major, outside brown, inside red. In India is ten times the price 

 of the other. Both are warm stomachics, and emmenagogues. 



Indian cane, Canna Indica, Seeds, Indian shot, cordial, 

 vulnerary. 



Costus Arabicus. Root, sweet costus, aromatic, rather acrid, 

 with the smell of orrice, stomachic, tonic, discussive. Becomes 

 bitter by keeping. 



Curcuma, C. longa. Roots, turmeric, imported from the 

 East Indies in tubers, about the size of the little finger ; aromatic, 

 tonic, discussive, and heating; used especially in the jaundice and 

 the itch, dose 3j to 3ij : dyes a deep yellow, and is used as a 

 seasoning in Indian cookery. 



Curcuma angustifolia. Root nutritive, excellent for sick 

 persons, ground to a flour; yields, by washing, East Indian 

 arrow root. 



Albina Chinensis ;—Stissera cwxuma ; — Dietrichia minor ; — 

 D. major ; — Emdlia supersonata ; — Thalia canncBformis ; — Buekia, 

 Root used as spices, 



32. ORCHIDE^. 

 These plants are esteemed as highly aphrodisiac. 



Epidendron Vanilla, Vayiilla aromatica. Pods, hanilloes, 

 vanilla, brown, as thick as a quill, covered with an efflorescence, 

 in bundles of 5 oz. each, dipped in oil ; cephalic, stomachic, used 



