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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS. KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 9.) (1912. 
LI—NEW SOURCES OF PAPER. 
(Hedychium coronarium, Koen., and allies.) 
(With Plates.) 
Karly in the present year Messrs, Clayton Beadle and Stevens, 
of London, drew the attention of Kew to the value of Hedychium 
coronarium as a source of material for paper-makin 
This plant, a member of the Natural Order Zing iberaceae, is a 
native of India, being distributed from the Himalayas to Ceylon an 
a te ascending to 4000 ft. in the Khasia Hills and 6000 ft. in 
Ceylon. It is also recorded from Central America, the West 
rp Oo New Zealand, Mauritius and West Africa (Corisco Bay). 
Many years ago it appears to have been introduced into Brazil and 
it has run wild in many of the States, being especially abundant 
at Morrettes in = hbo of Palais, where it has covered a large 
tract of swampy ¢ 
The plant in its aitavalised condition in Brazil is shown. on 
rats I. When the introduction to Brazil took place is uncertain. 
There is a specimen at Kew collected by Dr. Glaziou in 1869 and 
the presence of the plant in Brazil is Seoorded by Martius* and 
ee n.f These authors mention that the plant is known by 
the native names “ Lagrimo de Moga” and “Escaldamaio.” <Accord- 
ing to some Portuguese documents quoted by Messrs. Clayton 
Beadle and Stevens the plant is sometimes known in Brazil as 
wild Jasmin . 
The peniin “Hedychium, of which a good etre by Baker is 
to be found in Hooker’s Flora of British India, vol. vi., p. 225, i 
characterised by the horizontal tuberous rootstock, which bears the 
erect elongated leafy stems. The leaves are distichous, oblong or 
lanceolate, with long clasping sheaths. The inflorescence forms a 
terminal spike. 
* Martius, Ee Bras. roe 
+ K. Schuma Pflanze reich "haan ieley pp. 44 and 56. See also 
Usteri, Flora der + Dinbagany aie Stadt Sao Paulo (1911), pp. 169, 170, 
(26866—6a.) Wt. 189-806, 1125, 12/12. D&S. 
