Note (30) — BOOK III.
James Greive translation
30. Cardamom.) It neither appears from Celsus nor Dioscorides, that the seed was in use among the ancients. Some affirm it to be the same with the modern greater cardamom. Dioscorides[ JA ] says, the best comes from Comagene, Armenia and Bosphorus. It grows also in Arabia and India. The best is firm, large, compact, and pungent to the smell, acrid and bitterish to the taste; it has a heating quality. By this it would seem they made use of the root.