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2. CURCUMA Linn. 
Infl. lateral (Exantha) : 
Spike many-flis. ; bracts aoa pati a 
Leaves quite green : 1. C. AROMATICA. 
Leaves with a purple- brown cloud along the 
costa 2. C. ZERUMBET. 
Spike few-flow ered ; bracts with a greenish tip; ; 
leaf light green, mottled with dark green . 3. C. OLIGANTHA. 
Infl. terminal; 1. quite green (Mesantha) : 
Bracts dark green ; small plant . 4: C. ALBIFLORA. 
Bracts white or light pac ee plant fis. 
exserted : ; C. domestica. 
1. C. AROMATICA Salisb. Parad. Lond. t. 96 (1808). ?Curcuma longa 
taon., op. -Pl. p. 2 (1753) pp.; Val. iv Ball. Jard. “Buit., ser-- 2, 
XXVII, p. 79 (1917-8) 
Page 241.—For C. Zedoaria Roscoe read: 
2. ©. Zerumbet Roxb. in As. ee XI, p. 332 (1810). C. officinalis 
Salisb. in Trans. Hort. Soc. I, p. 285 (1812). C. Zedoaria Roscoe. 
Scit. Pl. t. 109 (1828) non Roxb. C. speciosa Link. Enum. Hort. Berd. 
II, p. 3 (1821). Amomum Zedoaria Berg. Mat. Med. p. 41 (1788). 
A. latifolia Lamk. Encycl. I, p. 134 (1783) 1 non C. latifolia Roxb. 
Page 242.—For C. longa Linn. read: 
C. pomestica Val. in Bull. Jard. Buit., sér. 2, XXVII, pp. 31, 153 
(1917-8); Petch in Ann. Perad. VII, p. 160 (1920). C. longa Trim. 
non Linn. 
Page 243.— 
2a. GASTROCHILUS Wall. (non Don). 
Rootstock short; stem short or 0; ligule of 2 distinct 
auricles; infl. a terminal unilateral, dense-flowered spike, 
enclosed by the leaf-sheath; each fl. enclosed by a bract and 
a bracteole resembling each other; calyx tube short, cylin- 
dric, bifid; corolla- lobes connivent, dorsal lobe erect, anterior 
lobes patent; staminodes broad, resembling the petals, lateral 
erect, shorter than: the, lip; lip decurved, “much longer than 
the petals and staminodes; stamen filaments about as long 
as the anther, free; anther exserted from the throat, facing 
the lip, crested. 
Page 243.—For Kempferia pandurata Roxb. read: 
Gastrochilus rotundus (Linn.). Curcuma rotunda Linn. Sp. 
Pl. p. 2 (1753). C. longa Linn. |. c. pp. Keaempferia ovata Roscoe in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. VIII, p. 351 (1807). K. pandurata Roxb. in As. 
Res. XI, p. 328 (1810). Gastrochilus panduratus Ridl. in Journ. As. 
Soc. Beng. p. 110 (1899); Val. in Bull. Jard. Buit., sér. 2, XXVII, 
p- 91 (1917-8). 
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