[Sca-cooks] Grains of Paradise or Not?

[mwomack at ix.netcom.com]

The other day in a large ethnic market here I found Goya brand malagueta
which I understand is one of the names for grains of paradise.  But they were 
also called allspice on the label.  Are these the same as the grains of paradise
I see listed in medieval receipts or another spice entirely?  They were about the 
size of traditional whole allspice and dark brown.


Ninon