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Korarima Cardamom.—The plant furnishing Korarima cardamoms 
appears to have never been seen by botanists or to have been ye 
botanieally, though Pereira proposed for it the name o 0 
Korarima. There are specimens of dried fruits in the Kew Mince 
received from Bombay and Aden through the Indian Museum, from 
the 
Hanbury’s Pharmacographia (Second Ed., pp. de :—* The Arab 
inte a f ca 
hich was later known in Europe, and is mentioned in the most 
na 
occurring also in Valerius Cordus and Mattiolus. Like some vod 
Eastern drugs, it sons disappeared from European comm 
and its name came transferred to Grains of Paradise, which 
to the present day are known in the shops as Semina Cardamomi 
on a cord to dry; such — of cardamoms are sometimes used b 
the Arabs as rosaries. The fruit in question is ealled in the Galla 
Valrirdepte orari orarima, but it is also known - wrági spice, and by its 
Arabie names of Heil and abhal-habashi.” 
As the plant furnishing Korarima Cardainoms appears to be indigenous 
Nyanza to Abyssinia, it may soon be possible to obtain fresh seed or 
rhizomes in order to cultivate it in this country. We hope European 
travellers in Eastern Africa will make a note that the md of Korarima 
Cardamom is at present a mucli desired acquisition at Kew 
which ieee frons "th e usual orm to three, four, five, and 
six-lobed. A very fine ene of this latter form, which is in fact a 
triple frnit in which three nuts are developed, has just been presented 
to the Museum by the are ete of Ripon, to whom it was given by 
H.H. Abdullah, ex-Sultan of 
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of October. Upwards of 250 pages of the fourth part are already in 
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