By Richard Anthony Salisbury, Esq. 285 



Londinensis, which now, possibly, Mr. Hooker will never 

 publish. It thrives here with the same culture as the other 

 Zingibers, and is as easily propagated. 



Sect. 2. 



CurcumaAromatica. Par.Lond. n.96.cumlc. Curcuma 

 Zedoaria. Roxb. in As. Res. v. 11. p. 5. Gaidoar, sive Zedo- 

 arium alterum, &c. Camel. Syll. p. 23. Jungli-haldi Benga- 

 lensibus. 



An old inhabitant of our stoves, being introduced by Sir 

 Joseph Banks, in 1797- The plant is easily cultivated, 

 but will not flower here without a large pot, and being kept 

 dry after the leaves decay ; that from which the figure in 

 Paradisus Londinensis was drawn, having stood, at my re- 

 quest, on the back shelf of the stove without water from 

 November till March. 



Curcuma Officinalis. MSS. Curcuma Zerumbet. Roxb. 

 in As. Res. v. 11. p. 16. Amomum Zerumbet. Retz. Obs. 

 fasc. 3. p. 35. Zerumbet. Humph, Herb. Amb. v. 5. t. 6*8. 

 Tom on Malay ensibus. 



This is the true Zedoary of the shops, according to the 

 opinion of Mr. Charles Greville, who took a great deal 

 of pains to ascertain this point, and who received roots of it 

 from Calcutta, in 1807. Off-sets from those are now in several 

 stoves about London, but have not yet flowered, to my 

 knowledge. 



Curcuma aeruginosa. Roxb. in As. Res. v. 11. p. 8. 

 Zedoaria, &c. Cornell. Syll. p. 23. 



Introduced with the preceding species in 1807, by the 



