THE SCITAMINEZE OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 119 
C. Zedoaria Roscoe, Scitamines. t. 109. Curcuma zerumbet Roxb. 
As. Res. ХІ. 383. C. Sumatrana Miq. Fl. Sumatra. p. 615. 
Rhizome large with oblong rounded tubers, orange colored 
inside, Leaves in pairs 14 foot ong and six inches across lan- 
ceolate cuspidate glabrous. bright green with a central purple 
rown bar. Scape outside the tuft of eden peduncle 11 foot 
long, 4 inch through covered at the base by a sheath six ‘inches 
long, green with an obtuse apex, and cleft to the base. Spike 
ones green more or less tipped with pink, the pak Ы опез 
lanceolate deep crimson thinner in texture; the lower ones two 
inches long and 11 inch wide rather soft quite blunt and rounded. 
e flowers are "four to each bract. Bracteoles thin transpa- 
rent white hardly au inch long lanceolate. Calyx thin transpa- 
ss, th 
obovate oblong over one inch long dilated towards the apex, 
which is bifid, pale yellowish with a thicker central bar ; the apex 
Stamen filament for the greater part adnate to the staminodes, 
ovate white, the anther mobile oblong squared pubescent, the 
basal processes horn-like acute; pollen white. Ovary nearly 1 
inch in length hairy. Style projecting beyond the stamen. 
Stigma transversely oblong. 
edoary is known to the Malays as T ese awas, [t 
It arane Е grows among lalang and general e there, 
but it is not easy to flower it in a pot or in really good soil. It 
is a very handsome plant when in flow iage 1з also 
lia а 
ornamental. It is said to be p in the Eastern Himalayas and - 
is cultivated all over the Eas 
Singapore, common eis g, roalside near Balik ‘Pulau, 
Kedah, Yan: Siam at Bangtaphan | (Dr. Keith). Also Celebes at 
Minahassa (Koorders 19671.5) 
