THE SCITAMINE^E OF THE PHILIPPINES. 167 



Rhizome large, fleshy, with oblong rounded tubers, orange-colored 

 inside. Leaves in pairs, lanceolate, cuspidate, glabrous, thin, bright 

 green, with usually a central purple-brown bar, 25 to 60 cm long, 8 to 

 15 cm wide. Scape from the rhizome, not from the leaf -tuft, often 

 appearing without the leaves, the peduncle 15 cm long, the spike as long 

 as the peduncle, of about 20 bracts, the lower ones green, more or less 

 tipped with pink, the upper ones lanceolate, deep-crimson. Flowers four 

 to each bract. Bracteoles thin, transparent, 2 cm long, lanceolate. 

 Calyx small, bifid, hairy. Corolla-tube 2 cm long, funnel-shaped, yellow- 

 ish-white, the lobes 1 cm long. Staminodes oblong, obtuse, erect. Lip 

 oblong-obovate, bilobed, yellowish. Stamen-filament adnate to the stami- 

 nodes, short, broad. Anther spurred. Capsule ovoid, trigonous, straw- 

 colored, dehiscing irregularly. Seeds ellipsoid, the aril white, lacerate. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, Antipolo, For. Bur. 70^6 Curran; Malapadnabato, 

 Merrill 2113: Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Whitford 1267, Leiberg 61' t 2: 

 Province of Benguet, Sablan, Elmer 6170: Province of Zambales, For. Bur. 692't 

 Curran: Province of Pampanga, Bolster 26. Negros, For. Bur. 11235 Everett. 

 Guimabas, Ritchie 26. Mindoro, Pola, Merrill 2>/0J f ; Mansalay, Merrill 908. 

 Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Mrs. Clemens J/25. 



The zedoary is said to be wild in the eastern Himalayas, and is now spread 

 all over the tropics of the East, being cultivated for curry stuff and as medicine. 

 It readily establishes itself and remains long after the disappearance of the 

 garden in which it was formerly cultivated. 



Mr. Ritchie gives the native name Lampoyang for it. This word is the 

 Malay one for Zingiber Cassumunar and is wrongly allixed to the zedoary. 



2. C. longa Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 2; Koenig in Retz. Obs. 3 (1783) 71; Roxb. 

 As. Research. 11 (1810) 340; Fl. Ind. 1 (1820) 32; Horan. Monog. (1862) 23; 

 Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 88b; Bentley & Trimen Med. PL f. 269; Baker in Hook. f. 

 Fl. Brit, Ind. 6 (1890) 214; K. Schum. in Pflanzenreich 1. c. 108. 



C. domestica Lour. Fl. Cochineh. (1790) 10. 



Amomum curcuma Jacq. Hort. Vindob. 3 (1770) t. Jf. 



Rhizome large, with elliptic or cylindric tubers, the interior deep- 

 orange-red. Leaves 5 or 6, thin, lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, acuminate, 

 cuspidate, glabrous, pale-green, 45 cm long, 12 to 18 cm wide; petiole 

 channeled, 20 cm long. Spike 10 to 20 cm long, on a peduncle of about 

 the same length. Bracts oblong to lanceolate, 2 to 3 cm long, spreading, 

 recurved, pale-green, the terminal ones sometimes rosy. Calyx tubular, 

 with three short points. Corolla-tube longer, the lobes oblong, obtuse, 

 creamy-white. Lip oblong, the sides curved upward and the tip 

 deflexed, apex truncate, white with a deep-yellow central bar. Stami- 

 nodes as long as the petals. Stamen-filament broad ; anther small, ovate, 

 with two rather long decurved horn-like processes, the connective not 

 prolonged. 



Palawan, For. Bur. 77/57 Curran, near the seashore. 



The turmeric is a native of India, and here is obviously an escape from 

 cultivation. 



