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although it is well known in Boeroe (Riedel, Teysmann) and 

 occurs in New Guinea (Teysmann, Versteeg). I reduce to it 

 Globba lawassi Malacca of Rumphius, because the fruits agree 

 with Rumphius's description, while the seeds have a marked 

 flavor of cardamon. 



A MOM U M sensu Benthamiano * 



AMOMUM CARDAMOMUM Willd. (not Linn, which is Elettaria cardamo- 

 mum) Sp. PL 1 (1797) 8; Roxb. PL Coromandel 3: 22, t. 227, PI. 

 Ind. ed. 2, 1 (1832) 37; K. Schum. in Engl. Pflanzenreich 20 (1904) 

 238 (Amomum cardamon) . 

 Cardamomum minus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5 : 152, t. 65, f. 1. 



This was reduced by Linnaeus to Amomum cardamomum 

 Linn., in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 20, Amoen. Acad. 4 

 (1759) 129, but is entirely different from the Linnean species 

 as originally published in 1753, which is Elettaria cardamomum 

 Maton. It is not represented by botanical specimens from Am- 

 boina, but occurs in Java, cultivated and spontaneous, and in 

 Sumatra. 



In the same chapter Rumphius briefly mentions two other 

 species, the fruits of which were considered as kinds of car- 

 damon. He distinguishes in all three kinds of cardamon, none 

 of which is a native of Amboina, as follows : 



Cardamom majus "the round Cardamom of Java." 



This is, according to Pereira, who compared fruits known by this name 

 with authentic specimens in Kew, doubtless Amomum maximum Roxb. PL 

 Ind. 1 (1820) 41, a native of Java [Pereira Materia medica 2 (1849) 106]. 

 Cardamom medium sive minus —Amomum cardamomum Willd. 



This is the only one that was cultivated, though with little success, 

 in Amboina. 



Cardamom verum fructibus minimis tr\gor\\s = Elettaria cardamomum 

 Maton. 



AMOMUM ROSEUM (Teysm. & Binn.) Benth. & Hook. f. ex Jackson Index 



Kewensis (1895) 108, non Roxb. 

 Donacodes rosea Teysm. & Binn. Cat. Hort. Bogor. (1866) 58. 

 Amomum truncatum Gagnep. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 51 (1903) 164. 

 Globba crispa II rubra Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 137, t. 60, /. B, C, D, 



t. 61, f. 2. 



Amboina, Koesoekoesoe sereh, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 140, August 

 23, 1913, locally known as gelobba; Teysmann. Celebes, Koorders 592c, 

 19651$. 



Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 4, referred this to Amomum 

 villosum Lour., that is, Globba crispa Rumph. t. 61, but mani- 



* This genus in its widest sense contains species placed by different 

 authors under Elettaria, Geanthus, Donacodes, Phaeomeria, Hornstedtia, 

 and Amomum. 



