28 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Amonum zcrumbet, L. Sp. PI. i. 1. Jacq. Hort. Vindob. iii. t. 54. 

 A. spur i urn Gmel. Syst. i. 6. A. sylvestre, Poir. Encyc. Suppl. v. 548. 

 Zcrumbet zingiber, Lestib. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, XX. 329. 



Singapore ; Malacca ; Selangor : Kvvala Selangor (Ridley 7799) ; 

 Perak : Larut (King's Coll. 2163). Common in waste ground, round 

 villages. Native name " Lampoyang," used in native medicine. Widely 

 distributed over Malaya. 



5. Z. CASSUMUNAAR, Eoxb. As. Res. XL 347, t. 5, Fl. Ind. 149. 

 Rhizome thick aromatic yellow inside. Stems 1 to 6 feet tall, leaves 

 oblong lanceolate pubescent beneath 6-18 inches long, 2-3 inches wide, 

 ligule short rounded. Peduncle 6-12 inches long. Bracts 1-li inch 

 long and nearly as broad, greenish red to bright red edges hairy. Calyx 

 tube spathaceous 2 inch long. Corolla tube little longer lobes yellowish 

 white lanceolate acute 1 inch long. Lip three lobed, basal lobes oblong 

 obtuse midlobe orbicular bilobed. Stamen shorter. Capsule small 

 globose. 



Rose. Scit. t. 85, Bot. Mag. t. 1426, Horan. Prodr. 27 Bak. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. VI. 248. 



Z. purpurcum, Roxb. Trans. Linn. Soc. VIII. 348. Z, Cliffordiac, 

 Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 555. Z, montanum, Link. Dietr. Sp. 1. 52. Amo- 

 num montanum, Retz. Obs. III. 5. Cassumuuaar Roxburghii, Colla. 

 Nov. Gen. Scit. in Comm. Taur. 1830. Cultivated and occurring as 

 an escape in waste ground. 



Penang, Telok Bahang (Curtis 1924). 



6. Z. CHltYSOSTACHYS, Ridl. I.e. 129. Stems graceful slender 2 

 feet tall purplish. Leaves about 10 lanceolate acuminate dark green 5 

 inches long, 1^ inch wide, ligule oblong 1 inch long. Peduncle 2 inches 

 long stout. Spikes 4 inches, bracts broad truncate retuse bright yellow. 

 Corolla tube short white lobes lanceolate acute 1 inch long. Lip base 

 narrow linear, 3 lobed as long as the petals, lobes ovate obtuse white, 

 midlobe and disc between the lobes mottled crimson apex bifid. Fila- 

 ment linear, anther cells elliptic, beak acute spotted pink. 



Perak, Larut Hills (Curtis 2710) (Wray 3529). Endemic. 



7. Z. CITRDJUM, Ridl. I.e. Stems about 1 foot tall. Leaves dark 

 green pubescent beneath broadly lanceolate with prominent primary 

 nerves 8 inches long 4 inches wide, petiole short or none, ligule very 

 short. Spike oblong blunt 4-5 inches long, peduncle 3 inches. Bracts 

 broad rounded lemon yellow, becoming pink in fruit. Calyx dilated 

 white tip bifid, :l ineli long. Corolla tube graceful lU inch Ions, upper 

 lobe lanceolate laterals connate and adnate to the lip for 4 of their 

 length i inch long, yellowish. Lip shorter side lobes large oblong 

 rounded midlobe lanceolate blunt yellow. Stamen long. 



