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Blume, Enum. PL Jav. (1827) 42, which is manifestly the 

 correct disposition of it. The figure represents a sterile speci- 

 men only. 



ALPINIA Linnaeus 



ALPINIA GALANGA (Linn.) Sw. Obs. Bot. (1791) 8. 



Maranta galanga Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1763) 3 (type!). 

 Galanga major Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 143, t. 63. 



This species is not represented in Robinson's collection. Ga- 

 langa major Rumph. is the whole basis of Maranta galanga 

 Linn., which typifies Alpinia galanga Sw. ; the plate is very 

 generally cited in botanical literature under Alpinia galanga 

 (Linn.) Sw. All the specimens I have seen from Amboina and 

 Celebes (Boerlage, Teysmann, Riedel, Koorders) differ from 

 the cultivated form in having pubescent leaves and inflores- 

 cences. They probably represent the same form as the wild 

 Javan one, Alpinia pyramidata Blume, considered by K. Schu- 

 mann as a variety of Alpinia galanga Sw. Galanga minor 

 Rumph., Herb. Amb. 5 : 144, t. 63, d, may represent a different 

 species. 



ALPINIA GIGANTEA Blume Enum. PI. Jav. (1827) 59, non aliorum. 



Alpinia eremochlamys K. Sch. ex parte (specim. auth. in Herb. Bog.) 



in Engl. Pflanzenreich 20 (1904) 362, excl. descr. et fig. J+0, 0, citatis. 

 Globba silvestris minor Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 141, excl. t. 63 citata 

 (t. 62 et 63 ad Alpinia nutans spectant). 

 Amboina, Hoetoemoeri road, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 1J+1 (staminate), 

 on a fern-covered hillside, altitude about 250 meters, the whole plant about 

 6 meters high, locally known as geloba gar damn; Soja, Robinson PL 

 Rumph. Amb. US (pistillate) on grassy slopes, altitude 375 meters, plant 

 about 8 meters high. Collected also in Amboina by Teysmann at Hoetoe- 

 moeri, and by Boerlage, No. 4-07, at Latoea, the latter recording the local 

 names gardamoe oetan and anipa waccang. The Celebes form mentioned 

 by Rumphius is probably a related but distinct species. 



K. Schumann, in Engl. Pflanzenreich 20 (1904) 355, regards 

 the name Alpinia gigantea Blume as invalid on the basis : "nomen 

 speciei mixtae melius deletur quam ulterius conservatur." Now 

 Blume was wrong in referring Globba silvestris major to his 

 species, but Alpinia gigantea Blume was based on a rather poor 

 specimen and Reinwardt's manuscript, and hence it is not to be 

 interpreted by the Rumphian synonym quoted by him. Robin- 

 son referred his No. 1U1 to the form figured by Rumphius, 

 t. 62, as Blume did, yet considering it as Globba silvestris minor. 

 It is improbable that Rumphius would have depicted a fruiting 

 specimen when he professes that this kind never bears fruit, 

 while the figures distinctly show the withered bracts, which 



