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speaking of the Ceylon cardamom, which he calls " Carda- 
momum medium " observes, that "there is some confusion 
in regard to the name; that of Cardamomum majus being 
applied among us to this species, and in France to the 
Grana paradisi" 
6. Burmann* refers Grains of Paradise to his "Carda- 
momum Zeylanicurrr fructu rotundo nigro," and which I 
presume is the Mpinia Jilhighas of Roscoe. But the 
greatest confusion exists in Burmann's work, with regard 
to the s}^nonymes of cardamoms and grains of paradise. He 
confounds no less than five or six distinct fruits with his 
round black Ceylon cardamom. 
7. The last scitamineous fruit which I have to notice is a 
very rare one, and I shall distinguish it by the name of 
Clusius's cardamom, because I believe it to have been 
first described by Clusius,t who observes, that although it 
has some resemblance to Melegueta, yet if the two fruits be 
carefully compared the difference is very obvious; and he 
then proceeds to point out the distinctions between them. 
Its origin was unknown; it was collected by an apothecary, 
who died on his voyage, without leaving any memorandum 
respecting it. More than two hundred years afterwards a 
second specimen of the same fruit was accidentally found in 
a druggist's shop, by Sir James Edward Smithy who has 
described it under the name of Amomum Clusii. He 
thinks it was met with in a chest of great cardamoms (Ma- 
dagascar cardamoms.) A third specimen was given me by 
a druggist a few years since. § These are all the known 
specimens which have been met w r ith. The capsule might 
be confounded by superficial observers with either Melle- 
getta or the Madagascar cardamom; but the seeds at once 
* Thesaurus Zeylanieus, p. 54. 
f Exoticorum, lib. ii., cap. xv. 1605. 
tRees' Cyclopaedia, vol. xxxix. 
§ Lucae, of Berlin, to whom I showed this fruit, told me he had be- 
fore met with a specimen under the name of Melaleuca Cajaputi. 
