This plant was first figured, named, and ascertained by Mr. Salisbury, in his Paradisus Londinensis, 
published in 1807, (vol. ii. p. 96,) where the true Zedouria of Father Kamel was also described ; notwithstanding 
which, Dr. Roxburgh thought proper to transfer the name of Zedoaria to the plant here figured, and to give to 
the true Zedoaria the name of Zerumbet, (vide Asiat. Res. vol. xi. p. 332. Flor. Ind. yol. i. p. 23,) by which name 
the latter has also been figured and published in Plants of Coromandel, (fig. 201.) This is the more remarkable, 
as Dr. Roxburgh informs us, that ‘ he gave some of the sliced and dried bulbous and palmate tuberous roots of 
the last-mentioned plant, (his Zerumbet,) to Sir Joseph Banks, which he gave to Dr. Comb, who found that it 
was the real Zedoaria of our Materia Medica; and by the same means ascertained that the root of Dr. Roxburgh’s 
Curcuma Zedoaria, (the plant here figured,) is the Zedoaria rotunda of the shops ;” which has, however, with more 
probability been considered as the root of the Kempferia rotunda, See Dr. Woodville’s Medical Botany, vol. ii. p. 361. 
also Dr. Fleming’s Catalogue of Indian Medicinal Plants and Drugs, in Asiat. Researches, vol. xi. p. 165, where we 
are informed, that “* from the roots of several species of the Curcuma that are found in Bengal, the natives 
prepare a farinaceous powder, which they call 7% ‘chur. It is in every respect similar to the powder prepared 
from the root of the Maranta Arundinacea, or Arrow-root, and is often sold for it in the Calcutta shops.” 
REFERENCES. 
1. Calyx and corolla, shewing the outer and inner limb. 
2. Corolla, with the lip depressed, to shew the filament, anther, style, and stigma. 
3. Reverse view, the filament seen on the back. 
4. The corolla opened by dividing the lip, shewing the germen, with its processes, 
style, and anther. 
5. Calyx. 
