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also MioGO i*oot8 {A. Mioga^ TLb.), the young shoots of which CASE 

 are used as food in Japan. 3. 



No. 10. Fruits of the Korarima Cardamosi. The plant 

 furnishing this fruit has never been botanically described, 

 though Pereira proposed the name for it of Amomum Korarima. 

 The history of this Cardamom is thus given in Fluckiger and 

 Hanbury's *' Pharmacographia " : " The Arab physicians w6re 

 acquainted with a sort of Cardamom called Heit, which was 

 later known in Europe, and is mentioned in the most 

 ancient pharmacopoeias as Cardamomnm majus, fi nvim^ iii^o 

 occurring in Valerius Cordus and Mattiolus. Like some 

 other Eastern drugs, it gradually disappeared from European 

 commerce, and its name came to be transferred to Grains of 

 Paradise, which to the present day are known in the sho|)s 

 US Semina Car damo7ni major is ." ' .' ' ' 



"The true Cardamomum majus is a conicalfruit^'in dlzfe 

 and shape not unlike a small fig, reversed, containing roundish 

 angular seeds of an agreeable aromatic flavour, much resembling 

 that of the Malabar Cardamom, and quite devoid of the burning 

 taste of Grains of Paradise. Each fruit is perforated, having 

 been strung on a cord to dry. Such strings of Cardamoms are 

 sometimes used by the Arabs as rosaries. The fruit in question 

 is called in the Galla language Korarima, but it is also known 

 as Guragi Spice, and by its Arabic names of Heil and 

 Hahhal-hahashir ^^ ''^ ^ '':'"'' ' 



The plant which furAish^s Korarima Ckrdamoms appears to 

 be indigenous over the whole mountain region of Eastern 

 Africa, from the Victoria Nyanza to the countries south and 

 south-eastward of Abyssinia. ' ' ^' 



Observe fruits of the Euro Elachi or Bengal CARiiAiiOM 

 (Amomum siibulatum, Roxb.), from various parts of India; also 

 fruits and seeds of the XANtHiom Cardamom {Amomum 

 xanthioides, Wall.), a native of Tenasserim and Siam. The 

 seeds of this plant, which closely resemble those of the Malabar 

 Cardamom {Elettaria Cardamomum^ Maton)^ are occasionally 

 imported into the London market, either loose or still col\ering 

 in ovoid three-lobed masses, with the pericarp simply removed. 



Fruits of other species of Amomum are here exhibited, in- 

 cluding the Australian^. Dallachyi, F. MuelL, and the Hairv 

 Chinese Cardamom, supposed to be that of Loureii-o's A^ vU- 

 losum^ a plant about which very little is known. This C^- 

 damom is said to grow in the province of Kwang-tung and tl^e 



