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capsule transparent and white and Suet hidden in the bracts. 
When ripe it splits into its three segments and shows the black 
angled seed covered with a very thin M aril. 
1 Zingibers iphabit dense jungles, but two cultivated 
species can һе found in waste ground near villages 
Z. Zerumbet s Exot. Bot. її. 105 t. 112. Z. spurium 
Koenig. Retz observ. iii. 60. 
Rhizome fleshy yay inside, white when old, bitter at 
first aromatic. Stems short and stout about 1—14 foot high. 
Leaves crowded broadly lanceolate glabrous 4 to 6 inches 
. long, 24 to З inches wide, glabrous above with hairs on the 
midrib beneath ligule $ an inch long papery brown. Spike glo- 
bose to oblong 3 inches long, blunt on a Mus peduncle covered 
with sheaths 3—4 inches ong. racts broad rounded at first 
green eventually red, edges paler and hairy. Calyx spathace- 
- ous half an inch long, white. Corolla tube graceful twice as 
long, white, lobes lanceolate acute. Lip broad and short lateral 
lobes rounded, median orbicular to subovate retuse, pale yel- 
low with an e central bar, sometimes s faintly “mottled 
nmon in orchards and round villages Sing gapore, Ma- 
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Іасса, Selangor. The Lampoyang of the Malays usel in native 
edi 
Z. officinalis Rose, The true ginger of commerce is cultiv a- 
ted here but never establishes itself as Z. Zerumbet does. It is 
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known as Haliya. eaves are narrow, the stems short 
The spike which I-have seen borne on the end of ат leafy stem, 
is usually borne directly on the root stoc t is green with 
mottled black and yellow flowers, r rarely however produced, 
and the fruit has never yet been seen. . It is not known to occur 
wild any where 
Z. Kunstleri Kis. ms. 
A herbaceous plant more like a shrub 4 to 6 feet high. 
Leaves lanceolate acuminate more than a foot long and three 
inches wide narrowed at base but not distinctly petioled, li. rule 
very short. Flowering stem over a foot tall rather stout cov- 
