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AMOMUM sp.? 



Globba sekala Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 141. 



This herb, a native of the eastern coast of Celebes, is said 

 to resemble Alpinia gigantea in habit, but to be smaller and 

 with reddish flowers issuing from the rhizome as in Amomum 

 roseum. The species has not been found again so far as can 

 be ascertained. It might be Alpinia melichroa K. Schum., in 

 Engl. Pflanzenr. 20 (1904) 364, collected by Sarasin (No. 871) 

 in Celebes. Nothing definite can be stated regarding its proper 

 position. 



HEDYCHIUM Koenig 



HEDYCHIUM CHRYSOLEUCUM Hook. f. in Curtis's Bot. Mag. 76 (1850) 

 t. 4516; K. Schum. in Engl. Pflanzenreich 20 (1904) 46. 

 Gandasulium Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 175, t. 69, f. 3. 

 Amboina, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 1^5, August, September, and 

 October, 1913, from cultivated plants, locally known as gandasuli. 



Gandasulium Rumph. was reduced by Koenig to Hedychium 

 coronarium Koenig in the original description of that species, 

 and this disposition of it has been accepted by all subsequent 

 authors. It is not certain, however, that Gandasulium Rumph. 

 is identical with Hedychium coronarium Koenig, which was 

 based on Malacca specimens. Koenig's original description is 

 not sufficiently detailed to show its exact status. If the Am- 

 boina material cited above really represents Gandasulium 

 Rumph., as I suppose it does, it is certainly not the same as 

 Hedychium coronarium as considered by Roscoe, Monandr. PL 

 t. 51, and by K. Schumann, in Engl. Pflanzenreich 20 (1904) 44. 

 It seems to me to agree perfectly with the figure of Hedychium 

 chrysoleucum Hook. f. quoted above, the drawing having been 

 made from specimens sent by Roxburgh; it is not impossible 

 that Roxburgh's plants came originally from Amboina, although 

 it seems not to be a native of Amboina. It occurs in Java only 

 as a cultivated plant. 



KAEM PFERI A Linnaeus 



KAEM PFERI A GALANGA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 2. 



Soncorus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 173, t. 69, f. 2. 



Not represented in our Amboina collections. Linnaeus orig- 

 inally reduced Soncorus Rumph. to Kaempferia galanga Linn., 

 in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 20, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 

 129, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 843, Sp. PL ed. 2 (1762) 3, which is 



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