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2. GALANGA, Willd. sp. i, 12. Root tuberous, perennial; stems 

 erect, round, smooth, 6 to 7 feet high, leafy in the upper part; leaves 

 lanceolar, smooth on both sides ; margins white and somewhat 

 callous ; panicle terminal, erect, oblong, branched ; flowers greenish- 

 white ; fruit size of a small cherry, obovate, smooth, deep ot&nge- 

 red. The root is the Galanga major of the druggists ; truly wild 

 on Wag Donger, in the Warree Country. Syn. Galanga major, 

 Humph. Amb. v, t. 63. Native name "Koolinjun." 



3. CALCARATA, Roscoe in Linn. Trans, viii, 347. Root stolo- 

 niferous fragrant; stems oblique, smooth, 2 to 4 feet high ; leaves 

 short-petioled, narrow lanceolar, fine-pointed, smooth on both sides ; 

 racemes terminal solitary erect, compound ; flowers numerous, large ; 

 the lip ovate oblong, deeply coloured with purple veins on a yellow 

 ground. Southern Concan (Nimmo), but never seen by us. 



5. COSTUS, Linn. 



1. SPECIOSUS, Smith in Linn. Trans. Soc. i, 240. Stem some- 

 what spiral, round, 3 to 4 feet high ; leaves subsessile, spirally 

 arranged, oblong, cuspidate, softly villous beneath ; bracts obovate, 

 obtuse, scarlet ; flowers very large, white. One of the commonest, as 

 well as handsomest, of the order. Syn. Tjana kua, Rheed. Mai. 

 xi, p 15,/. 8 ; Tsana speciosa, Gmelin. ix ; Herba spiralis hirsuta, 

 Rumph. Amb. vi, p 1 43, t. 64, /. i ; Banksia speciosa, Kcenig ; 

 Hellenia grandiflora, Retz. 



6. CURCUMA, Linn. 



1. ANGUSTIFOLIA, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, p 31. Root with small, 

 oval tubers hanging to the fibres; leaves petioled, narrow-lanceolar, 

 very acute, smooth on both sides; petioles 6 to 12 inches long; 

 spike radical, crowned with a tuft of oval, purple bracts ; flowers 

 large, longer than the bracts, bright-yellow. Ram Ghaut, spring- 

 ing up at the beginning of the rains. 



2. DECIPIENS, Dalz. in Hook Jour. Bot. ii, p 144. Root with 

 numerous almond-shaped tubers hanging from the fibres ; earlier 

 scapes lateral ; later, central, 6 to 8 inches long ; leaves broadly oval, 

 glabrous, rarely velvetty beneath, long-petioled ; floral bracts 

 saccate, purple; flowers twin, purple, the lip bifid with curled 

 margins. Mai wan ; flowers from June to August. 



3. ZEDOARIA, Roxb. Fl Ind. p 23. Tubers of the root palmate, 

 yellow within; leaves petioled, broad-lanceolar, entire, softly downy 

 underneath ; spike 6 to 12 inches long ; coma of a beautiful rose- 

 colour; flowers yellow; lip obovate entire. The Concuns; flowers 

 in May, when the leaves begin to appear. 



