Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 21 



§ 1. ZEDOAEIA. Rhizome thick aromatic. 

 Spike often appearing without the leaves. 

 Corolla tube short and thick. Anther versa- 

 tile with long decurved points at base. 

 Spike large. Bracts green with pink tips in 



upper ones crimson ... ... ... 1. C. zedoaria. 



§ 2. HiTCHENIOPSlS. Rhizome rather 

 slender. Spike from centre of the leaf tuft. 

 Corolla tube siender. Filament slender. Anther 

 linear, terminal. Chiefly differs from Gastro- 

 chilus in the form of the spike and bracts. 



Leaves in pairs broad, peduncle short 

 Leaves 2-3 narrow lanceolate peduncle 



slender ... 

 Leaf solitary, ovate peduncle long slender 



§ 1. Zedoakia. 



1. C. ZEDOARIA, Roscoe Scitamineae t. 109. Rhizome large 

 fleshy with oblong rounded tubers, orange coloured inside. Leaves in 

 pairs lanceolate to cuspidate glabrous bright green with a central purple 

 brown bar 18 inches long 6 inches wide. Scape outside the leaf tuft, 

 peduncle 18 inches long, spike 6 inches or more long of about 20 bracts, 

 lower ones green more or less tipped pink, upper ones lanceolate deep 

 crimson. Fknvers 4 to each bract. Bracteoles thin transparent 1 inch 

 long lanceolate. Calyx i inch long bifid hairy. Corolla tube 1 inch 

 long funnel-shaped yellowish white lobes | inch white. Staminodes 

 oblong obtuse erect. Lip oblong obovate bilobed yellowish tip orange. 

 Filament adnate to staminodes, short broad. Anther spurred. 



Horan. Prodr. 23, Bak. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 210. 



C. zerumbet, Roxb. As. Res. XL 333, Fl. Ind. i. 20, Command. 

 PL t. 101. C. officinalis, Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 285. C. spe- 

 ciosa, Link. Enum. ii. 3. Amonum zcrumbeth, Koen. Retobs. iii. 55. 

 A. latifolium, Lam. Encyc. i. 134. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah, etc., (Ridley); Penang : Balik Pulau 

 (Curtis 1744) (Ridley 7229); Kedah : Yan (Ridley). 



The " Temu Lawas " of the Malays, commonly cultivated has 

 established itself in many places near abandoned cultivations. It is a 

 native of India and probably also of the Malay Islands. Several other 

 species such as the Tumeric " Kunyet " Curcuma longa~Li. and C. aro- 

 matica, Salisb. are cultivated by Malays and Chinese but do not seem to 

 establish themselves. 



