106 ZINGIBERACEAE. 



Coppename River, near Raleighfalls : Boon 1014. 



Vernacular name : »Blakka massoesa." 



West-Indian Islands, Columbia, Venezuela, British Guyana. 



Renealmia monosperma Miq. Linnaea XXII. p. 80. 

 (not enumerated by Schumann in »das Pflanzenreich"). 

 Saramacca River, near Groote Poica: Kegel 1470 (fl. May) in Hb. 

 Gotting. and Hb. Rheno-Traject. 



ALPINIA Linn. 



Alpinia speciosa (Wendl.) K. Schum. in Flora Kaiser Wilhelmsland p. 29. 



Zerumbet spec io sum Wendl. Sert. Hann. t. 19. 

 Paramaribo, Palmgardens : Went 363 (fl. Sept.) 

 Surinam: Splitgerber 1036 H. L. B. 905, 88—98. 

 Cultivated in the colony. 

 China and Japan. 



COSTUS Linn. 



Costus discolor Roscoe Monandr. Plants t. 81. 



Paramaribo, in forests : Splitgerber 124 H. L. B. 905, 88— 1 14 (fl. Nov.) 

 Para River, near Post Republiek: Tulleken 237 H. L.B. 903, 322 — 1 161, 



1 177, 1567 (fl. Aug.). 

 Vernacular name : Sangrafoe. 

 Brazil. 



Costus niveus Q. F. W. Meyer Prim. Esseq. 1. 



Lower Surinam River, near plant. Jagtlust : Splitgerber 116 H. L.B. 



905, 88— in, 112 (fl. Nov.); Went 69 (fl. Aug.) 

 Paramaribo : Kegel 480. 



Upper Saramacca River : Pulle 470 (fl. March). 



Cottica River, near plant. Hamburg : Rodschied ex Schumann 1. c. 401. 

 Vernacular name : Sangrafoe. 

 British Guyana. 



Costus cylindricus Jacq. Fragm. t. 77. 



Surinam River, near plant. Quarta: Kegel 807 (fl. Febr.) 



Saramacca River: Pulle 163 in forests (fl. Jan.) 



Coppename River: Boon 1198 (fl. Sept.) 



Upper Nickerie River: Tulleken 421 H. L. B. 903, 322— 1 187 (fl. Sept) 

 var. a ciliata (Miq.) Petersen Flora Bras III. 3 p. 54. 

 Costus ciliatus Miq. Linnaea XVIII p 73. 



Upper Surinam River, near Cassepoera: Tulleken 156 H. L. B. 903, 

 322—1532 (fl. Aug.). 



Surinam: Focke 123. 



