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Letter, 'A description and figure of the true amomum or tugus' Reverend George Camelli [Georg Joseph Kamel] to John Ray and James Petiver

Reference number: CLP/10i/35

Date: 1698

Description

Letter sent from Georg Joseph Kamel in the Philippine Isles [Philippines] regarding amomum, a genus of plants including various species of cardamom, and tugus [tugas, known as vitex parviflora]. No figure is included with the manuscript.

Subject: Botany

Published with figure in Philosophical Transactions as 'A description and figure of the true amomum, or tugus'.

Read to the Royal Society on 8 February 1698.

Reference number
CLP/10i/35
Earliest possible date
1698
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'A description and figure of the true amomum or tugus' Reverend George Camelli [Georg Joseph Kamel] to John Ray and James Petiver, 1698, CLP/10i/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10i_35/letter-a-description-and-figure-of-the-true-amomum-or-tugus-reverend-george-camelli-georg-joseph-kamel-to-john-ray-and-james-petiver, accessed on 13 May 2025

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