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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Author: Camelli George
Date: 1st January 1699
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1699.0002
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