By Richard Anthony Salisbury, Esq. 283 



and if he would establish this plant in the stoves near London, 

 it might be exported to the Island of Jamaica, in the cooler 

 shady mountains of which, it would probably thrive as well as 

 in Malabar. It there grows wild on the summits of lofty 

 mountains, enveloped in clouds, or deluged with rain, nine 

 months of the year ; and under the shade of trees, which 

 admit but a small portion of the sun's beams. 



Margona Paludosa. MSS. Amomum angustifolium. 

 Sofiner. Voy. v. 2. p. 242. t. 147. 



Introduced by William Manning, Esq., of Totteridge, 

 in whose collection it flowered in October 1804, but was lost 

 the following winter, with several other choice plants, for 

 want of heat. It grows wild near ponds, and constitutes a 

 very distinct genus, which I have named after a celebrated 

 Italian druggist, who has written on Cardamoms. As the Isle 

 of Bourbon is now in the possession of Great Britain, I hope 

 we shall soon have this plant at Kew. 



Torymenes Officinalis. MSS. Amomum elatum. 

 Prodr.p. 5. Amomum Granum Paradisi. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2. 

 p 2. 



Francesco Borone, whose name has been so deservedly 

 perpetuated by the President of the Linnean Society, col- 

 lected a number of seeds and roots, for that gentleman, at 

 Sierra Leone, which arrived here quite fresh in August 1792. 

 On a label to one of the roots, which proved to be this plant, 

 was written. <s from Cape Apollonia, for him you love best." 

 Being then in London, Dr.'SMiTH gave it to me, and I very 

 gratefully record this proof of the friendship subsisting 

 between us at that period. Though the plant nourished 



