Cardamoms and other medicinal fruits - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 56647 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 170.01 ZINGIBERACEAE Elettaria cardamomum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Cardamoms and other medicinal fruits | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Cardamoms and other medicinal fruits | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Cardamoms and other medicinal fruitsUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles etc, outsize | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Hanbury Danielx0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Medicinal fruits of the order Scitaminea - Ceylon cardamoms: E.cardamomum var beta; Amomum cardamomum round or cluster cardamoms; Amomum maximum java cardamoms; Amomum xanthioides; Amomum villosum Hairy china cardamoms; Amomum danielli ba, stard melligetta; Amomum korarima korarima or great cardamoms; Alpinia galanga, galanga cardamom; Amomum melegueta, true melligetta or grains of paradise; Amomum citratum, pereira's amomum; plus three lots where the botanical origin is unknown - large rou, nd china cardamoms, bitter seeded cardamoms of china and ovoid china cardamoms. Opuscular source: Officinal or Malabar Cardamom - the cardamom of British pharmacy is the fruit of E.cardamomum, a native of the forests of Southern India. It varies consider, ably in form, the more rotund fruits being those preferred by druggists Ceylon cardamom - the plant which produces this fruit is now regarded by botanists as a simple variety of the preceeding, and named accordingly E.cardamomum var beta. Ceylon cardamoms, are used chiefly in Germany Genus Amomum 1. Round or cluster cardamom - the produce of A.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 recent, ly been imported from Siam. 2. Java cardamom - the fruit of A.maximum - it is rarely seen in English commerce. 3. Xanthioid cardamom - the plant which affords this cardamom is A.xanthioides, a native of Burma and contigious countries. The seeds of the Xan, thioid cardamom, freed from the husk are often sold in the London drug sales as cardamom seeds. 4. Hairy china cardamom, is dervived from a plant very nearly allied to the preceeding, and called A.villosum this cardamom is used by the Chinese but not impo, rted into Europe. 5. Bastard melligetta - this name is often applied on the West Coast of Africa to plants of the genus Amomum which produce seeds resembling those of the true Melligetta or grains of paradise. The present plant, whichis called A.daniellii, s 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 wh, ich has wholly disappeared from the shops, though still an object of commerce amopng the Arabs and Turks. The seeds have the flavour of the Malabar cardamom thus differing completely from what are now called Semina cardamom 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 A.melegueta, a native of Tropical Western Africa 8. Pereira's Amomum - the plant thus called is the A.citr, atum of botanists. Its seeds are extremely aromatic, having the flavour of Verbena or Lemon Grass. They are used by the natives of Gabon but have not in recent times been imported into Europe Genus Alpinia - 1. Galanga cardamom - two species of Alpinia fu, rnish medicinal products, one of them yielding ordinary galanga root the other the great galanga. The latter which is called by botanists A.galanga, supplies the aromatic little fruit named galanga cardamom. Botanical origin unknown - Large round china ca, rdamom, Ovoid china cardamom, Bitter seeded cardamom - these aromatic drugs are employed by the Chinese, but are not objects of trade with Europe. As they are notic.... ....ome pharmacological writers, they are included in the present se.... | ||||
| Determinations: | 170.01 ZINGIBERACEAE Amomum xanthioides 170.01 ZINGIBERACEAE Amomum maximum 170.01 ZINGIBERACEAE Amomum korarima 170.01 ZINGIBERACEAE Elettaria cardamomum (L.) Maton 170.01 ZINGIBERACEAE Alpinia galanga 170.01 ZINGIBERACEAE Amomum cardamomum L. 170.01 ZINGIBERACEAE Amomum citratum 170.01 ZINGIBERACEAE Amomum danielli 170.01 ZINGIBERACEAE Amomum melegueta 170.01 ZINGIBERACEAE Amomum villosum | ||||