118 THE SCITAMINEAd OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
tuft, an 1 thus belong to the section Mesantha of Horaninow. Опе 
species of the section Hxantha with the spike outside the tuft (C. 
Zedoaria) is commonly to be met with round villages, where it 
are shorter than the leaves. They have large and broad mem- 
branous bracts closely set, in the axils of which are two or more 
thin textured fugacious flowers, which project usually but 
little beyond the bract. The flowers open, one or two at a time 
upon the spike. The calyx is very short cylindrical and toothed. 
The corolla tube is usually slender enlarged upwards, the petals 
oblong or ovate oblong, the staminodes very similar and connate 
with the stamen. The lip broad rounded entire or more or less 
lobed. The anther, usually large, bas in some species a small 
round crest, in others there is none. In many species it is spurred 
with curved processes, the use of which has been explaiued and 
illustrated by Forbes. (Wanderings of a Naturalist, p. 248) 
"where he shows that they act as levers to rotate the anther upon 
the back of a bee when entering the flower in search of honey 
so as to deposit the pollen on its back. In thes? species the an- 
ther is moveable upon its filament, but in the other species there 
is nothing of this arrangement and the anther is not moveable. 
The fruit which is very rarely produced is a globose capsule with 
numerous seeds. 
Several species are cultivated by the Malays, but except 
C. longa. L. the turmeric, and C. Zedoaria, the Zedoary, only 
rhizome light blue inside, and a taste of Turkey rhubarb, but 
somewhat bitter and slightly hot. "The leaves are rather flaccid 
dark green and glalrous. " 
Temu lati, or Temu badoh, is a very much larger kind with 
deep green leaves tbe blade over two feet long and five inches 
wide with an obscure brownish mark in the upper part of the 
midrib, and the petiole winged, six inches long and half an inch 
ао. The rhizome is very light blue inside and has a musky 
aste. 
Temu pauh has a yellow rhizome with a smell and taste of 
wild carrots. 
