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more 



months ; it should be regulated so as to get the benefit of the 

 rains during the growing season, except where it is possible to 

 irrigate* At Old Calabar, planted May 11th, 1898, the rhizomes 

 were dug up February 9th, 1899. Care is necessary when har- 

 vesting not to injure the ginger, and after the soil and fibrous 

 roots are removed, the product is washed, scraped and dried — 

 this taking a week or more. It is sometimes left unpeeled, or 

 w^hen j)eeled it is bleached by treating with chloride of lime or 

 whitewashed with Hme and water. In Malabar the process of 

 bleaching consists in soaking, w^ashing in hme water and then 

 fumigating with sulphur vapour (Patwardhan, iVgric. Journ. 

 India, v. July 1910, p. 245). The average yield per acre is given 

 as 8000-10,000 lb. (I.e. p. 246). 



Bef. — " On the Commercial Varieties of Ginger," Pereira, in 

 Pharm. Journ. ix. 1850, pp. 212-214, pp. 261-265, with figures 

 of Jamaica & Barbados Ginger roots; pp. 261-265 with figures 

 of " Coated Malabar," " Cochin," " Coated Bengal," " Bengal 



scraped " and " African " (Sierra Leone) Ginger. " The 



Cultivation of the Ginger Plant," Turner, in Agric. Gaz. N.S. 



Wales, ii. Sept. 1891, pp. 507-510. "Chinese Ginger," Kew 



Bull. 1891, pp. 5-9; 1892, pp. 16-20. -"Fiji Ginger," I.e. 



1892, i3p. 77-81. ''Zingiber officinale'^ in Diet. Econ. Prod. 



India, Watt, vi. part 4, 1893, pp. 358-366, " Cultivation of 



Jamaica Ginger," in Pharm. Journ. [4] xix. Nov. 26th, 1904, 



Culture et 



a 



p. 774; from Journ. d' Agric. Trop. iv. (1904). 



Preparation du Gingembre," d'apres Cook & CoHins, jjp. 179- 

 181 and Econ, PI, Porto Rico (Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. viii. 



part. 2, 1903, pp. 268-269.- "Ginger" in Bull. Imp. Inst. ii. 



1904, p. 86; samples from B. C. Airica.^ "Memorandum on 



the Prospects of Ginger Production : with special reference to Sierra 

 Leone," Dunstan in The Sierra Leone Royal Gazette. April 6th, 



1907, pp. 170-172. ''Zingiber officinale;' in Comm, Prod. 



India, Watt, pp. 1139-1143 (John Murray, London, 1908). 



<( rM >> 



inger," Harris in 



1909 



pp. 141-142; reprint in Pharm. Journ. [4] xxix. Sept. 18th, 1909, 



p. 379. " Ginger," in Materia Medica, Greenish, pp. 432- 



436 (J. & A. ChurchiU, London, 1909). " Bleaching of Ginger," 



PatAvardhan, in Agric. Journ. India, v. July, 1910, pp. 245-248. 

 — " Cultivation and Preparation of Ginger," Zimmermann, in 

 The Tropical Agriculturist, xxxvi. April loth, 1911, pp. 312-313. 



" The Cultivation and Preparation of Ginger," Bull. Imp. 



Inst. X. 1912, pp. 112-120. -"Ginger," in Spices, Ridley. 



pp. 389-421 (Macmillan & Co. Ltd. London, 1912). 



Thaumatococcus, Benth. 



Thaumatococcus Danielli, Benth. \ PL Trop. Afr. VII. p. 321. 



III. — Pharm. Journ. xiv. 1855, p. 161 {Phrynium Daniellii); 

 Horanimow, Prodr. Scit. t* 3 {Monostiche Danielli). 



