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furnistes one of the strongest and most durable timber of New South 

 Wales suitable for railway sleepers, spokes of wheels and handles of tools 

 and implements. 



Another species which ia likely to thrive here is Eucalyptus eostrata, 

 Sclilecht., called the Ked Gum Tree, which is said to grow at low elevations 

 and on moist clayey grounds. 



20. K/EJiPFERiA RosccEANA, » Wall. (SciTAMiNEiE). A very beautiful 

 dwarf, stetnless, herbaceous perennial, native of Burmah. The leaves are 

 tufted, large, undulated, roundish, spreading flat on the ground and marked 

 on the upper surface with bands of dark and light green and dark purple or 

 black. The flowers described in Hooker's " Flora of British India " as white 

 are entirely white outside, but the inner side of the limb is bright pale 

 purple with a white or creamy eye in the centre. They are sessile 

 appearing in the centre of the plant in succession. The plant was purchased 

 from the Agri-Horticultural Society of India, Calculta, in August, 1899, 

 and seems to do very well in Bombay. It starts into growth in the 

 beginning of the rains, and should be gradually dried up after the rains 

 are over. 



21. K/EMPJt'ERiA GiLBERTi.f Hort. (SciTAMiNE^), This is also an attrac- 

 tive dwarf, stemless, herbaceous perennial, native of Burmah. The leaves 

 are dark green, lanceolate, with wavy margins and bordered with broad 

 cream-coloured bands. The flowers are fugitive, sessile, white, with a bright 

 purple lip, 



22. KiEMPFERiA Galanga, L. (SciTAMiNEiE), Chanda Mula. This very 

 dwarf Kcempferia is a native of India and Malaya. The leaves are 

 large, tufted, roundish and spreading flat on the ground like those of 

 K. roscotana, but are entirely dark green. The flowers are fugitive, white 

 with lilac throat. 



All the three Kcempferias described above were purchased in 1899 from 

 the Agri-Horticultural Society of India, and seem to do very well in 

 Bombay. 



All of them flower after the leaves come out, and are therefore unlike 

 the more generally known and commonly cultivated Kcempferia rotunda, 

 L., Bhui champa, whose lovely sweet-scented flowers appear at the end 

 of the hot weather before the leaves come out. 



23. Zingiber Darceyi $ (ScrrAiiiNEiE). It is a perennial herb from two 

 to three feethig-h, introduced in England in 1890 irom the Sydney Botanical 

 Garden. The leaves are large, shining green, with a broad creamy white 

 margin and oblique stripes of the same colour. The flowers appearing in 

 September are radical in large dense oblong spikes with persistent bracts 



* Named after a German naturalist, E. Kaempfer, and after Roscoe. 

 t Nameri after KaBtnpfer and after Gilbert. 



J The name is derived from Greek Zingiberis, originating from Sansciit cmgavera, 

 hoXtt-bbaped, probably in reference to the form of the chizomes and after D'Arc^y. 



