— 39 — 



Intermedial bracts 55 X 30. pouch 20; one of the lowest of the 15 

 bracts of the come 75 X 20, pouch 20. 



The 15 coma-bracts are snow-white with or without sporadic light- 

 brown dots at the top; partly light-green-striped. The floral-bracts 

 light-green. 



The flowers smaller than in puz-pz/rnsce/îs but much broader in all parts ; 

 they do not protrude above the bracts. The bracteoles are at the utmost 

 26 X 16. In a flower of 45 mm. length the calyx is nearly as in C. pnrparas- 

 cens, but smaller, 9 — 10 mm. Petals 11 X 11. dorsal petal 14. Tube 17 

 mm.; faux 14 X 30. Lip 16 X 18, 13 mm. broad at the claw which is 2 

 mm. long. The shape is transversally oblong, the broad mid-lobe does not 

 protrude but is separated from the broad short side-lobes by a wrinkle. The 

 staminodes are 14 X 9 with a deep wrinkle, elliptical, broadly rounded, a 

 little incurved; filament 4X4. Large anthers with broad long, conspicuously 

 curved and much spreading spurs, somewhat shorter than the loculi. No 

 distinct lingula, stylod. 5 mm. long. 



The colour of the flowers is light-cream, the middle-band and lobe of 

 the labellum gold-yellow with a little brown stripe on both sides of the 

 middle-band reminding C. zedoaria and C. latifolia, Roxb. The petals are very 

 lightpink especially at the top, the buds somewhat darker. 



Distribution: The species here described is doubtlessly the same 

 which Blume indicated by the name C. viridiflora, Roxb. and there is nothing 

 in Roxburgh's description which is contrary to this determination. The type 

 specimen of Roxburgh's description was collected in Sumatra (Bencoulen) 

 and sent from there to Calcutta, where it flowered. 



In Java this species seems to be rare. My description was made up 

 after a single living stock (cult H. 40) and a spike preserved on alcool, col- 

 lected in Bauten. 



"Native name." "Tinggang" just as the preceding species, of which the 

 rhizomes can not very well be distinguished. 



Either this or the preceding is doubtlessly Rumph's Curcuma domestica 

 major, represented in tab. 68. 



Roxburgh mentions the native name "giri"'OT "giring" and reduces it 

 to Curcuma giring of Rumph but this reduction is manifestly wrong. It is 

 "however" possible that "giri" or "giring" is used for this species in Sumatra. 

 But this point of Roxburgh's text is not very clear. 



Though this species is not easily to be distinghuished from C. pur- 

 purascens by dried materials, in a living state the two are different in many 

 aspects. In fresh specimens the dark concolorous leaves of the first are 

 very conspicuous; the flowers do not protrude beyond the bracts and are 

 much shorter and broader and the midlobe of the lip is not prominent and 

 the dark yellow band is bordered by two red lines. 



