1044 BENGAL PLANTS. [Zingiber. 
936. Zingiber Adans. 
Herbs with elongated, leafy stems, and horizontal, tuberous 
rootstocks ; leaves oblong- anceolate. Flowers in spikes, usually 
placentas axial ; style filiform; stigma small, subglobose. Fruit 
an oblong capsule, tardily dehiscent. Seeds large, globose, 
arillate. 
Spike produced direct from the rootstock :— 
Spike very short and dense ; leaves pubescent beneath :—- 
Lip spotted and streaked with red; rie raat FOO cere psuses rubens. 
Lip whitish, unspotted; corolla-lo fea 
Spike terminating an elongated sada ae ar stionthitrg, searious 
bracts :— 
Leaves pubescent beneath; bracts reddish, ovate; lip and stamen 
yellowish-white ; corolla- rie white Casumunar. 
Leaves glabrous beneath ; 
Bracts ovate; corolla- Latics et Tp ‘ahd stamen pale-yellow 
Zerumbet. 
ci suborbicular, cuspidate; corolla-lobes green; lip and 
n pu . officinale. 
Spike cecal on the leafy stem ; corolla-lobes and lip pale- “yellow : — 
Spike sessile on the mouth of the sheaths of the upper leaves 
capitatum. 
Spike on a stem prolonged somewhat beyond the sheaths of the uppet 
leaves ; taller and larger in all its parts than the type 
eapitatum var. elata. 
2154. ZincrBer RUBENS Roxb.; F. I. i. 53; F. B. I. vi. 248. 
N. Bengal. 
A herb, with stout, leafy stems, 6-8 feet high. 
2155. Zinerper RosEuM Roxb.; F. I. i. 50; F. B. = vi. 244. 
; W. Bengal; Orissa; Chota N 
A herb, with slender, leafy stems, 3-4 feet high. 
