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in the form of tincture, of which the dose is from half a drachm to 
two drachms. 
Off. The Seeds. 
Off. Pp. Tinctura Cardamomi, L. E. D. 
Tinctura Cardamomi Composita, L. D. 
Cardamoms also form one of the ingredients in many of the com- 
pound medicines of the pharmacopoeias. 
CURCUMA ZEDOARIA. 
Zedoary*. 
Class MoNAN DR I A.— Or(?er MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Scitamine^, Linn. Drymyrrhiz^, Juss. 
Gen. Char. Anther double, two-spurred. Filament petal- 
like, three-lobed, central lobe bearing the anther. 
Spec. Char. Leaves broad, lanceolate, petioled. 
This is a perennial plant, a native of the East Indies, Ceylon, and 
Malabar, flowering in June and July ; it is also a native of Otaheite. 
It delights in dry open situations, and where the soil is sandy. 
The root is tuberous, fleshy, externally of an ash colour, internally 
grey ; the flower stem is short, rising very little above the ground, 
and covered with sheaths formed of the broad footstalks of the 
leaves; the leaves are radicle, large, nearly elliptical, pointed, 
veined, of an uniform green colour, and stand upon broad petioles ; 
the infloresence is a terminal, loose spike ; the calyx is small ; 
the corolla is monopetalous, formed of a long slender lube, divided 
at the mouth into six segments, three of which are long, narrow, 
spreading, and inserted before the others ; two of the other segments 
are erect, ovate and pointed ; the third is deeply cut into two ovate 
divisions; the filament is petal-like, three lobed ; the anther is dou- 
ble, and placed on the middle lobe of the filament ; the germen is 
superior, roundish, style about the length of the tube, the upper 
♦ Fig. b. the coralla and calyx, c The anthers and stjle. 
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