120 THE SCITAMINE OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
C. longa L. Turmeric, * Kunyet,” is often cultivated by 
Chinese, but 1 have never seen іб establish itself anywhere аз 
Zedoary does. Itis a much smaller plant with light green 
leaves, and а short spike with pale green bracts at the base and 
pink ones at the top. The flowers are yellow 
C. 9 пае. Wall. Baker ЕІ. Brit. Ind. 216. Malay 
ле Wallic 1 have never seen die like here. 
There is some do ub: s to where the plant came from, but it 
was probably not collecto in the peninsula. 
C. ( Hitcheniopsis) Kunstleri Bak. l.c. 214. 
Rhizome d rather stout. Leaves in pairs obovate 
cuspidate 12 inches long and six inches across above deep green 
shining ribbed, the back purple pubescent, keel thick channelled 
four inches long. Spike from between the leaves about four 
inches long broad shortly peduncled. Bracts few about an inch 
broad with rounded apices deep red ; inner bracts shorter oblong 
ovate cartilagineous deep red. Flowers rather large protruded 
from the bracts. Calyx nearly half an inch long cylindric aea 
split apex obscurely trifid red. Corolla tube an inch long enlarg- 
ed upwards white ; lobes lanceolate acute + ап inch long white. 
rounded and beaked. This plant grows in dense damp jungles 
often in great masses. The leaves are mge purple on the back, 
but sometimes all green. It is very easy to grow and flowers 
readily, The structure of the flower is quite that of a Gastro- 
chilus, from which genus it эш; chiefly differs in the large 
broad мш like those of other Curcumas. 
. Thaiping Hills (Curtis, Wray No. 3702, 3662, 
3388) Ta (Wray 193) Dindings on Gunong Tungul. 
Var. : n Staminodes and lip and anther Pu yellowish 
red. 
Perak. K wala Dipang, at the base of the limestone cliffs. 
