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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



description. Blume was wide of the mark in reducing it to 

 Zingiber gramineum Blume, Enum. PL Jav. (1827) 45. The 

 latter is a rather common wild species of Java and Cochin-China 

 and is never cultivated. 



ZINGIBER ZERUMBET (Linn.) Smith Exot. Bot. 2 (1804) 103, t. 112. 

 Amomum zerumbet Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 1. 



Lampujum majus domesticum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 148, t. 6U, /. 1. 

 Amboina, Toelehoe, Boerlage 2J*7 in herb, bog., July 16, 1900. 



This reduction of Lampujum majus domesticum was first 

 made by Linnaeus, in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 20, Amoen. 

 Acad. 4 (1759) 129, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 842, Sp. PL ed. 2 (1762) 

 1, and is manifestly the correct disposition of it. Rumphius dis- 

 tinguished a cultivated and a wild form, but he found no dif- 

 ference between them, only that the latter flowered more 

 abundantly. Blume did not think this was the genuine Z. 

 zerumbet and reduced it to Z. amaricans BL; but his notions 

 about true Z. zerumbet are not very clear, and specimens from 

 Amboina {Boerlage 2J+7) in the Buitenzorg herbarium seem 

 to agree with the type. Zingiber marginatum (Roxb.?) BL, 

 which is quoted here by some authors, was based partly on 

 Lampujum silvestre minus Rumph., Herb. Amb. 5: t. 61*, which 

 is Globba marantina L., partly on an abnormal form of Z. 

 zerumbet, with a central inflorescence instead of a lateral one, 

 occurring sometimes in Java.* Zingiber montanum Link was 

 based on Amomum montanum Koenig, in Retz. Obs. 3 (1779) 

 51, quoted here by Koenig, 1. c, but Ridley, Fl. Mai. Penins. 2 

 (1907) 28, thinks it represents Z. cassumunar Roxb. 



ZINGIBER ZERUMBET (L.) Smith, var. AMARICANS Val. 

 Zingiber amaricans BL Enum. PI. Jav. (1827) 43. 

 Lampujum minus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 148. 



This reduction is based on Rumphius's assertion that this 

 form was a native of Java, and thence brought to Amboina 

 with the Malayan name lampujum ketjil or wangi. The latter 

 is still very commonly used in Java for a form that is botanically 

 not to be distinguished from lampujum pait y described by Blume 

 as Zingiber amaricans. Blume's short description agrees wholly 

 with the specimens I have examined. 



ZINGIBER CASSUMUNAR Roxb. in As. Research. 11 (1810) 347, t. 5. 

 Bang leu m Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5 : 154, t. 65, f. 2. 



This reduction of Bangleum was apparently first made by 



* See van Zijp, Recueil Trav. Bot. Neerlandais 12 (1915) 346, t. S. 



