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reign of Edward I. a holding of 9 acres at Skipwith, a hamlet of > 
Kirkland in Cumberland, near Cross Fell, paid yearly ‘1 racinus ’ 
of ginger, but that this is all on a par with the still more common 
practice of demanding a peppercorn rent or a rent in cloves, and 
that the ginger was bought at a local fair and not grown.” 
The radix gyngibri was very probably the true ginger, but the 
green ginger of the Land o 
vulgaris (and other aromatic herbs) according to J. F. Robinson, 
Flora of the East Riding of Yorkshire, p- 128. The name also 
occurs in Lincoln for Artemisia vulgaris (see Britten and Holland, 
Dictionary of English plant names, p- 541). 
ccording to Murray’s Oxford English Dictionary green-ginger 
is the undried root, usually in preserve. 
Botanical Journey in the Malay Peninsula —The following extracts 
from a letter dated December 18, 1908, addressed to Sir J. D. Hooker, 
-M., G.C.S.1., by Mr. H. N. Ridle -R.S., are by permission 
printed here on account of their great general interest :— 
“TI have just returned from an expedition to Perak and Pahang, 
where I have collected such interesting additions to our flora as 
Sarcopyramis, Sanicula, Disporum, besides a number of new species 
anc one or two new genera, I got three Balsams, one very fine 
thing of which I have only seen scraps before, the Golden-flowered 
Balsam; the flowers nearly two inches across, and like those of an 
Oncidium, hence I would name it oncidioides [see K.B., 1909, p. 11]. 
I sent you a scrap, bronght me by an amateur, whic was quite | 
unidentifiable. It is really a beautiful thing ; I drew up description 
om Pahang, though not a bit more striking than any other ridge 
Javanese things appeared across the border : Sarcopyramis, Viola, 
‘sporum, Sanicula, &c., and the zoologists say all the birds there 
are Himalayan. I am preparing an account o at | rh 
ir. Ridley’s detailed account of this journey be eagerly 
anticipated, : 
Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula—The appearance 
of Part 21 of this work by Sir George King and Mr. J. 8. Gamble, 
m elaborating 
