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ON GRAINS OF PARADISE. 
tflmomum . Granum Paradisi. But I have elsewhere* 
shown it to be the produce of Jlmomum maximum, Rox- 
burgh, a native of .Tava,t and which is cultivated at Nepal.J 
Hence the fruit is sometimes called Java cardamoms, or 
Nepal cardamoms. I have recently received from my 
former pupil, Mr. Thomas Brydon, now of the firm of 
Bruce & Co., of Madras, five samples of this same fruit, 
procured from a dealer. They varied somewhat in size, 
and bore the following names supplied by the n.ative 
dealer: 
1. " Large sized cardamoms. — Not known where from. — Used as Medi- 
cine." 
2. " Segoor Jungle cardamoms. — Medicinal.'''' 
3. w Cardamoms collected on the Malabar Coast. — Medicinal." 
4. " Round Cochin cardamoms. — Medicinal." 
5. " Odd or spare cardamoms. — Not known. — Used as Medicine. 1 ' 
If the capsule be soaked in hot water, from nine to thir- 
teen membranous wings become apparent, and which dis- 
tinguish this from ever} 7 other kind of cardamom which I 
have hitherto met with in commerce. The seeds are feebly 
aromatic. 
5. I have already shown§ that Ceylon cardamoms {Elet- 
taria major, Smith) have been confounded with Grains of 
Paradise {Amomum Grannm Paradisi, Smith.) The 
substitution of the one for the other was known to Dale,|| 
who observes of the Ceylon cardamoms, that " rarius in 
nostris officinis inveniuntur; alii enim Grana Paradisi offi- 
cinis dicta seu Meleguetam, non sine errore, alii Amomum 
verum Ger. horum loco substituunt/* And Lewis,f in 
* Elements of Materia Medica, vol. ii., p. 1028. 2d edit, 
•j- Blume, Enum. Plant. Javsc. 
i Hamilton (Buchanan,) Account of the Kingdom of Nepal. 
§ Pharmaceutical Transactions, vol. ii., p. 384. 
|| Pharmacologia, p. 252. 3** ed. 1737. 
If An Experimental H istory of the Materia Medica, p. 177. London. 
1761. 
