160 FETCH : 



Rheede, Hort. Malab., IV., t. 37. For further references to 

 literature and detailed information as to native names and 

 uses, see Watt, 11. cc. 



" Widely spread over nearly the whole of the warmer parts 

 of India and Ceylon (often cultivated), Malacca, Indo-China, 

 Hainan, Formosa, Java, Philippines (C. Blancoi Vidal), New 

 Guinea, and tropical Australia. 



" Vernacular name of the fruit in India Lasora ; known to 

 Anglo-Indians as Sebesten." 



(7) Sprague, T. A. Dolichandrone and Markhamla. Kew 

 Bulletin, 1919, pp. 302-314. 



Dolichandrone Eheedii Seem, should ■ be Dolichandrone 

 spathacea K. Schum. [Trimen notes (III., 283) that Ceylon 

 specimens from Koenig in Herb. Brit. Mus. are the type of 

 Bignonia spathacea L. f . — Ed.] 



(8) Valeton, Th. New Notes on the Zingiberacese of Java 



and the Malayan Archipelago. Bull. Jard. Bot. 



Buitenzorg, 2nd ser., No. XXVII. 



Valeton, in the course of his investigations into the Zingi- 

 beracese of Java and Malaya, has examined material of two 

 Ceylon species, viz., Zingiber Zerumbet Sm., and the common 

 Turmeric, supplied from Ceylon. Ceylon is the type locality 

 for Zingiber Zerumbet, as the species was founded by Linnaeus 

 {Amomum Zerumbet Linn.) on Hermann's specimen. Valeton 

 finds that Zingiber Zerumbet is not the same as Zingiber 

 amaricans Bl., as it was thought to be by Schumann, who 

 worked with dried specimens. 



W^ith reference to the Turmeric, Valeton 's conclusions are 

 of great interest . The accepted name of the common Turmeric 

 has been Curcuma longa L. That name, according to Valeton, 

 was based on a species described by Hermann (Hort. Acad. 

 Lugd. Bat. (1687), p. 208, cum tab.). Hermann stated that he 

 had brought the plant from the East, and that it was in the 

 Ley den Botanic Garden at the time he wrote. Presumably 

 he obtained it in Ceylon. According to Hermann's description, 



