Cureuma.] CXLIX. SCITAMINER. (J. G. Baker.) 211 
Royle 101.859 - Thw. Enum. 316. C. officinalis, Salisb. in Trans. Hort. Soc. 
i. 285. C. speciosa, Link Enum. ii. 3. Amomum Zedoaria, Berg. Mat. 
Med.41; Willd. Sp. Plant. i. 7. A. Zerumbeth, Aanig in Retz. Obs. iü. 
9 A. latifolium, Lamk. Ency. i. 184.— Rwmph. Amboin. v. 108; Rheede. 
Hort. Malab, xi. t. 7. 
" Eastern HIMALAYA, wild; cultivated throughout India.—DisTRIB. Malay 
lands, 
Rootstock ovoid, tubers many, some 1 in. diam., sessile, cylindric, and. many 
oblong terminating long fibres. Zeaves 1-2 ft., oblong, acuminate, narrowed to the 
base; petiole longer than the blade. Spikes vernal, 4 ft. by 3 in. broad ; flowering 
bracts 1} in., ovate, green, often slightly tinged with red; bracts of the coma many, 
spreading, bright red. Flowers pale yellow, rather shorter than the bracts. Calyx 
whitish, obtusely toothed, scarcely half as long as the corolla-tube. Corolla- 
tube fonnel-shaped ; lateral segments oblong, upper rather longer, ovate, convex, 
Lip + in. broad, orbicular, deflexed, obscurely 3-lobed emarginate, Capsule ovoid- 
trigonous, smooth, dehiscing irregularly. Seeds oblong, aril lanceolate white. 
5. C. elata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 1; Fl. Ind. i. 25; rootstock large, 
"e tubers pale yellow inside, petiole long green, leaves large oblong 
Piain-green pubescent beneath, bracts of coma bright red, lobes of corolla 
Vtsh. Rose, Seit, t. 104; Wall. Cat. 6610; Horan. Prodr. 23. 
Burma, Carey, 
Rootstock and numerous sessile tubers large. Leafy tuft 6-8 ft.; blade 2-3 by 
Spike vernal, j ft. by 3 in. diam.; flowering bracts 14 in., ovate, green ; 
those of the coma ovate-oblong, larger, spreading. Flowers pule yellow, shorter 
bolus braets ; lip obscurely 3-lobed, midlobe broad, emarginate.— Very near C. 
"ia, 
$. C. comosa, Hoch, in Asiat. Res. xi. 336 ; Hort. Beng. 1; Fl. Ind. 
mj, rootstock large, sessile tubers few pale yellow inside, petiole long 
Ki leaves largo oblong plain green glabrous beneath, bracts of coma 
pit P lobes of the corolla pinkish white. Wall. Cat. 6609 A; Horan. 
Prov, Carey, »" 
fy tuft 5-6 ft. ; blade 2-3 ft., plain green except in the earliest leaves, which 
‘te elouded with faint brown down "the centre. Spike vernal, denser and thicker 
vr Zedoaria ; flower-bracts pinkish white; those of the coma many, brigh 
m, spreading, Flowers pale yellow.— Very near C. Zedoaria. 
aj € ornata, Wall. mss. ex Voigt Hort. Suburb. Cale. 564, (name 
Jli Tootstock large, sessile tubers 0, leaves ovate clouded m, we corolla 
ER Young, 3 ite A3 d - le, lobes ot the cor 
tinged wi, ich all white tipped with mauve-purple, 
d'r, Wallich, 
Tou alked tubers very numerous. Leafy stem produced after the flowers. vores 
fee ly seen, perhaps oblong when developed. Spike under 1 ft. long, 3 " 
eas i’, SI whitish tipped with mauve-purple, the upper more so, ` 
ly alg 28 the b d i in. diam., white tinged with yellow. 
“Closely allied to C coma? expanded limb A in. 
8. 0.1 large, sessile 
tubers aU folia, Rosc, Scit. t. 108; very tall, rootstock large, 
ion Pale yellow inside, petiole long green, leaves large oblong clouded 
w, lobe; middle with purple pubescent beneath, bracts of the coma brig 
B 8 of the corolla whitish. Horan. Prodr. 28. 
ENGAL ?, Carey, 
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