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BKITISII PHARMACEUTICAL CONFERENCE. 
Genus Elettaria. 
1. Officinal or Malahar Cardamom. —The cardamom of British pharmacy 
is the fruit of Elettaria Cardamomuon, a native of the forests of Southern 
India. It varies considerably in form, the more rotund fruits being those 
preferred by druggists. 
2, Ceylon Cardamom. —The plant which produces this fruit is now regarded 
by botanists as a simple variety of the preceding, and named accordingly 
Elettaria Cardamomum, var. Ceylon cardamoms are used chiefly in 
Germany. 
Genus Amomum. 
1. Eound or Cluster Cardamom, the produce of Amomum Cardamomum .—■ 
This fruit was formerly well known and highly-esteemed in pharmacy, 
but for many years past it has given place to the cardamom of Malabar. 
It has been recently imported from Siam. 
2. Jara Cardamom, the fruit of Amomum maximum. —It is rarely seen in 
English commerce. 
3. Xantliioid Cardamom. —The plant which affords this cardamom Amo¬ 
mum xanthioides, a native of Burmah and the contiguous countries. The 
seeds of the xanthioid cardamom, freed from the husk, are often sold in 
the London drug sales as Cardamom Seeds. 
4. Jlairy China Cardamom, is derived from a plant very nearly allied to 
the preceding, and called Amomum villosum. This cardamom is used by 
the Chinese, but is not imported into Europe. 
5. Bastard Melligetta. —This name is often applied on the West Coast of 
Africa to those plants of the genus Amomum which produce seeds re¬ 
sembling those of the true Melligetta, or Grains of Paradise. The pre¬ 
sent plant, which is called Amomum Danielli, is one of these. As it was 
figured and described by the late Dr. Pereira, it has been introduced 
into this collection : but it has never been used in medicine, at least in 
Europe. 
6. Korarima Cardamom. —This is the true Great Cardamom of old writers, 
a drug which has wholly disappeared from the shops, though still an object 
of commerce among the Arabs and Turks. The seeds have the flavour 
of the Malabar cardamom, thus differing completely from what are now 
called Semina Cardamomi majoris, and which are derived from the next 
species. The plant which furnishes the Korarima cardamom is entirely 
unknown. 
7. True Melligetta, or Grains of Paradise, are furnished by Amomum 
Melegueta, a native of tropical Western Africa. 
8. Pereira's Amomum. —The plant thus called is the Amomum eitraium of 
botanists. Its seeds are extremely aromatic, having the flavour of ver¬ 
bena or lemon-grass. They are used by the negroes of Gaboon, but 
have not, in recent times, been imported into Europe. 
Genus Alpinia. 
1. Galanga Cardamom. —Two species of Alpinia furnish medicinal pro¬ 
ducts, one of them yielding ordinary Galangal Root, the other the Great 
Galangal. The latter which is called by botanists Alpinia Galanga, 
supplies the aromatic little fruit named Galanga Cardamom, 
