Anamallay, in dense alpine forest, very abundant, 
flowering in August and September. 
When naming this plant, rather hurriedly, I fear, 
I at once referred it to Marantina, not duly bearing 
in mind its petioled leaves, its several- not one-flow- 
ered braets, and its undivided lip—to which I might 
have added geographical position, the true G. Maran- 
tina being an Eastern species, from the Moluccas, 
while this is from the interior of Continental India. 
lt is certainly, judging from description only, very 
like the other, and may possibly be the G. bulbifera, 
Roxb., but of it, the description is so imperfect that 
Iam unable to identify the two plants, and therefore 
think it better to keep them distinct. 
Considering the importance attached to modifica- 
tions of the anther in this family, this seems, with its 
congeners, well entitled to form the type of a genus. 
As compared with the following, a true Globba, these 
differences are most conspicuous ; and, added to the 
habit observed in all three, of forming tubers in place 
of flowers in the lower bracts of the spike afford 
strong grounds for separation. At a very early stage 
of Roxburgh's career he seems to have been of this 
opinion and apparently sent Home specimens of his 
G. bulbifera under the name of Colebrookia, an unde- 
fined name long ago published by Mr. James Donn 
in his Cambridge Catalogue, but never taken up and 
since superseded by Roxb. and Smith's Colebrookia, 
a genus of Labiateæ. 
2002. GLoBBA oPnHroGrossa (R. W.), leaves short 
petioled, acuminate, glabrous; panicles terminal : lip 
linear pointed, deeply cleft; interior lobes (petals) 
linear lanceolate : capsule globose, smooth. 
Malabar, Anamallay Hills, &c. 
This though, in appearance, like (Z. orirensis and 
Careyana is, l believe, quite distinct from both. I 
have named it with reference to its long deeply two- 
cleft lip, à character of some value when added to 
the naked anther. The leaves are perfectly glab- 
rous on both sides. "The perianth in both this and 
the preceding is thickly dotted with red, resinous, 
shining translucent points. It has no trace of exte- 
rior bracts and tubers, similar to the preceding, and 
as regards inflorescence, so different that it may well 
be placed in different genera. ; 
2003. ZINGIBER ZERUMBET (J. E. Smith), stems 
declinate, leaves sessile lanceolar : spike long pedun- 
cled, oval, compaet, obtuse: bracts broad obovate 
obtuse, margins coloured: lip 3-lobed. Roxb. Fl. 
Ind. 1. 47. 5 
Anamallay Hills, in dense forests, frequent, flower- 
ing during the rainy season, August and September. 
This is an extensively diffused species. Roxburgh 
assigns the woods about Calcutta as its Bengal sta- 
tion; in the Southern forests, I fancy it extends nearly 
as far south as Cape Comorin. The head of flowers 
is supported on a stalk springing direct from the root, 
from 2 to 3 feet long, sheathed, its whole length, in 
scariose rudimentary leaves, and along side of it 
ws the proper leaf-bearing stalk. This, there- 
ax. is as much a root flowering species as the next, 
the length of the peduncle being the only difference. 
2004. ZINGIBER SQUARROSUM (Roxb.), leaves lan- 
ceolar : spikes squarrose, half immersed in the earth: 
bracts linear, with a long waved tapering point: lip 
3-lobed, apex bifid. 
Abundant in the Anamallay forests, also on Bolam- 
putty Hills near Coimbatore, flowering from July to 
November. 
This is a large species forming by its underground 
progression large patches. In favourable spots the 
stems attain a height of from 4 to 6 or even 8 feet. 
The spikes seem to continue enlarging indefinitely 
all the growing season as I have seen many that 
measured at least a foot in diameter. They ripen 
their seed abundantly and when mature, and the cap- 
sules burst, showing the numerous seed, each clothed 
with a large pure white saccate arillus, and the deep 
crimson of the inner surface of the capsule, they form 
a beautiful object. When the drawing was made 
they were not so far advanced, and when sent to the 
lithographer the deficiency could not be supplied. 
2005. Curcuma AROMATICA (Salisb. C. Zedoaria, 
Roxb.), bulbs small and, with the long palmate tubers, 
inwardly yellow: leaves broad lanceolar, sessile on 
their sheaths, sericeous underneath : except the spike, 
the whole plant of a uniform green. Roxb. 
Malabar, frequent, flowering from April or May 
until August or September. 
This plant very generally agrees with Roxburgh's 
description, even down to minute particulars, still 
Ido not feel certain that it actually is his species. 
If, however, it is not, it is so near that actual compa- 
rison of specimens must determine the differences. 
The bracts of the spike are pale green below, gra- 
dually passing into deeper pink until the last are 
almost crimson. The outer perianth is pink, and 
inner and lip yellow. 
The genus Curcuma, so far as regards the determi- 
nation of species, is rather difficult, but to distin- 
guish a Curcuma from any other genus of the order 
is easy after any one of its species is known. The 
peeuliar formation of the spike, and very charac- 
teristic bracteal sacks which are common to all, pro- 
claim at a glance. the genus. I make this remark 
under this species, because it is better shown here 
than in the other, but the difference is in the draw- 
ing not in nature, for with the plant in hand there is 
no mistaking the genus though, as respects the spe- 
cies, it may still be a question whether I have 
judged rightly, in making it a new species. One very 
objectionable set of specific characters has been had 
recourse to for distinguishing the species, those, name- 
ly, taken from the roots. To my mind, such charac- 
ters are objectionable as parts beyond the 
reach of observation in the growing plant, and as not 
being preservable in the dried one. The habit and 
foliage is certainly much alike in all the species, but 
doubtless, if carefully studied, the bracts and flowers 
would be found to furnish better ones, and not liable 
to the above objections. Neither having roots nor 
growing plants before me, I find it most difficult to 
indicate characters by which the following species 
can be distinguished from the 20 others of the genus, 
though, so far as I can detect, it does not accord with 
any of them. 
2006. Curcuma NEILGHERRENSIS (R. W.), bulbs? 
leaves scarcely petioled, lanceolate, somewhat cus- 
pidate, glabrous: spikes scarcely rising above the 
ground, compact : limb of the bracts prolonged, sub- 
lanceolate, obtuse, longer than the flowers, reflexed : 
outer lobes of the perianth linear cuspidate, inner 
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