98 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Vincent, Trinidad, and South America. Often escaping from culti- 

 vation in the tropics. 



216. Rajania hastata Linnaeus. 



Rajania hastata Linn^us, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 1032. 



Near Nueva Gerona, May 20, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 506. Gen- 

 eral Distribution: Santo Domingo, Cuba, and the Isle of Pines. 



Family M USAGES. 

 217. Musa sapientum Linnaeus. Common Banana. 



Musa sapientum Linn^us, Systema Naturae, II, Ed. X, 1759, p. 1303. 

 Musa paradisiaca subsp. sapientum O. Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum, II, 

 1891, p. 692. 



Near Nueva Gerona, May 23, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 510. Gen- 

 era! Distribution: Naturalized in tropical America from the East 



Indies. 



Family ZINGIBERACE^. 



Key to the Species Enumerated 



Flowers large and showy, 4-6 cm. long 218. Alpinia speciosa. 



iFlowers not so showy, about 2 cm. long 219. Zingiber Zingiber. 



218. Alpinia speciosa (Wendland) K. Schumann. 

 Zerumbet speciosum Wendland, Sertum Hannoverianum, Fasc. IV, 1798, p. 3, 



t. 19- 

 Renealmia nutans Andrews, The Botanist's Repository for New and Rare Plants, 



V, about 1 802-1 803, PI. 360. 

 Alpinia nutans Roscoe, in Smith, Exotic Botany, II, 1805, p. 93, PI. 106. 

 Alpinia speciosa K Schumann, Flora Kaiser Wilhelmsland, 1887, p. 29. 



Low place along the Majagua River, north of Los Indios, May 19, 

 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 405 (naturalized); near Nueva Gerona, 

 earl}' summer, 1912, and near Los Indios, November 4, 1912, G. A. 

 Link. General Distribution: Native to China, but cultivated ex- 

 tensively in India and the Malay region, and rather widely naturalized 

 in the West Indies. 



219. Zingiber Zingiber (Linnaeus) Karsten. 



Amomum Zingiber Linn^us, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. i. 



Zingiber officinale Roscoe, Transactions of the Linnean Society, VIII, 1807, p. 348. 



Zingiber Zingiber Karsten, Deutsche Flora, 1880, p. 471. 



Northern part of the island, Blain, No. 105, Millspaugh. General 

 Distribution: Cultivated and often escaping throughout tropical 



