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Nom, Jap. Kyowd, Haru-iilcon. 



Icon. Iwasaki's Honz5-Dzafa X. fol. 15 verso -16 recto ; linuma's 

 Somokn-DzusetRU I. fol. 5 recto, no. 4. 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Koishikawa, cultivated. 

 Perhaps it was early introduced from China. 



Curcuma (Mesantba) longa Linn. Sp. PI. p. 2, Cod. no. 13 ; Hontt. 

 Nat. Hist. XXV. (1777) p. 33 ; Willd. Sp. PI. I. p. 14 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. 

 ed. 2, I. (L810) p. 9; Pers. Syn. PI. I. p. 4; Rcera. et Schult. Syst. Veg 

 I. (1817) p. 31, Add. p. 575, et Mant. (1822) p. 44 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. 

 I. p. 10; Eosc. in Trans. Linn. Soc. VIIL p. 355; Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 

 ed. Willd. p. 11 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. p. 32 ; Sieb. Syn. PI. (Econ. Jap. 

 (1830) p. 18; Zoll. Syst. Verz. Ind. Archip. I. p. 72; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 III. p. 595, et Prol. FJ. Ja]). p. 305; Lindl. Med. et (Econ. Bot. p. 48, 

 fig. 82 ; Berg Pharin. Bot. (1860) p. 213 ; Ptoyle et Headl. Mat. Med. ed. 

 4, p. 649 ; Seem. Fl. Vit. p. 291 ; Drury Usef. PI. Ind. ed. 2, p. 169 ; 

 Bentl. et Trim. Med. PI. tab. 269; Nichols. III. Gard. Diet. I. p. 411; 

 Reinecke in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XXV. (1898) p. 598 ; Baker in Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. VL p. 214 ; K. Schumann in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. (1888) 

 p. 195, (1899) p. 335 ; Peters, in Engl, et Prantl Nat. Pflanzenf. IL G, 

 p. 19; Henry in Trans. Asiat. Soc. Jap. XXIV. Suppl. p. 94; Burkill in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXV. p. ^^G. 



Curcuma domestica Rumph. 



Amomum Curcuma Jacq. 



Curcuma macropJiylla Sieb. ex Miq. 



Curcuma longa var. macroplnjUa Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 305 ; Franch. 

 et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. p. 20. 



Nom. Jap. Ulcon. 



Icon. Iwasaki's Honzo-Dzufii X. 16 verso-l7 recto ; linuma's Somoku- 

 Dzusetsu I. fol. 3 verso-4 recto, no. 3. 



Hah. Formosa: Kelung {T. Makino and C. Owatari\ herb. Sc. Coll. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Nov. 2, 1896); Ryukyu : Ogimi in Isl. Okinawa (J. 

 Matsumura\ herb. ibid. May 1897); Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, Bot. Gard. 

 Koishikawa, cult. (Herb. ! ibid. Sept. 7, 1880). 



This was formerly introduced from China, but it is now known to 

 grow in Formosa and Ryukyu. 



