ON THE CEYLON CARD A. MOM. 
men was also in fruit, and proved to be the Wild or Cey- 
lou Cardamom; thus establishing the correctness of my 
suspicion that Moon's Grain of Paradise and our Ceylon' 
Cardamom were identical. 
The third species was marked " Jllpinia (Amomum) 
calcarata. Cardamom only used medicinally " With this 
I have nothing to do on the present occasion. 
Linnaeus, in his Flora Zeylanica, makes no mention of 
the Grain of Paradise plant (Amomum Granum paradisi, 
Linn.) In the first, second, and third editions of his Spe- 
cies Plantarum, published respectively in the years 1753, 
1762, and 1764, he merely gives Madagascar and Guinea 
as the habitats of his Grain of Paradise plant ; so that he is 
free from the error, fallen into by some of his successors, 
of regarding this plant as a native of Ceylon. The earliest 
edition of the Species Plant arum, in which Ceylon is 
given (erroneously) as a locality for the Amomum Granum 
paradisi, is that of Reichard, published at Frankfort in 
1779. 
But though guiltless of the error just referred to, Lin- 
naeus has committed some others with respect to this plant. 
His statement, that Madagascar is one of the native places of 
the Amomum Granum paradisi, is an error; for the Mada- 
gascar Amomum is a species distinct from that of Guinea, 
which exclusively yields the hot fiery seeds now sold as 
grains of Paradise. Moreover, the reference to Rheede's 
figure of " Elettari," vol. ii. t. 6. of the Hortus Malabari- 
cus, as the representation of the Grain of Paradise, is an 
error which Linnaeus himself committed in the second edi- 
tion of his Species Plantarum, published in 1762. I am 
ignorant of the circumstances which led him to make this 
mistake. It is remarkable, however, that in the same edi- 
tion he also refers to the same -plate of Rheede's work, as 
containing a representation of the small Cardamom plant 
( Elettaria Cardamomum, Maton.) The latter reference, 
JT 
