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capsule transparent and white and almost-hidden in the bracts. 
When ripe it splits into its three sezments and shows the black 
angled seed covered with a very thin white aril. 
The Zingibers inhabit dense jungles, but two cultivated 
species can be found in waste ground near villages. 
Z. Zerumbet Sm. Exot. Bot. i. 105 t. 112. Z. spuriwm 
Koenig. Retz observ. ili. 60. 
Rhizome fleshy yellow 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, 2 to 3inches 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 stout peduncle covered 
with sheaths 3—4 inches long. Bracts broad rounded at. first 
green eventually red, edges paler and hairy. Calyx spathace- 
ous half an inch long, white. Corolla tube gracetul twice as 
long, white, lobes lanceolate acute. Lip broad and short lateral 
lobes rounded, median orbicular to subovate retuse, pale yel- 
low with an orange central bar, sometimes faintly mottled 
pink. Stamen short. Capsule oblong cartilaginous white split- 
ting in 3 seeds oblong black ribbed covered by thin sweet aril. 
Common in orchards and round villages, Singapore, Ma- 
lacca, Selangor. The Lampoyang of the Malays usel in native 
medicine, 
Z. officinalis Rose. The true ginger of commerce is cultiva- 
ted here but never establishes itself as Z. Zerumbet does. It is 
known as Haliya. ‘The leaves are narrow, the stems short. 
The spike which I have seen borne on the end of the leafy stem, 
is usually borne directly on the root stock. It is green with 
mottled black and yellow flowers, rarely however produced, 
and the fruit has never yet been seen. It is not known to occur 
wild any where. 
Z. Kunstler? King. 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, lizule 
very short. Flowering stem over a foot tall rather stout cov- 
