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long. The anthers are proportionally short (7. 3 X 3) with a ligula, protruding 

 between the Ihecae. The spurs curved and firm, at the top somewhat outward bent. 

 Distribution and native names: 



This species Mr. Heyne received from Solo under the name of „ge- 

 lenje" or "belenje" (Heyne, 50) and under the same name an apparently 

 identical plant from Kediri, (Heyne, 55). which, however, has not yet 

 flowered, and another specimen from Poerworedjo (flower bearing). Finally 

 I received living plants from Randublatung (Rembang), flowering in 

 Décembre 1916 and again in Aug. 1917, through the kindness of the bureau 

 of forestry. The name seems to be rather universal for this species in Central 

 Java. Probably it is this species which is commonly known as "temu 

 kopyor", used by the natives for dying purposes. Though this name may 

 be applied^ also to some related species. 



The species, sold in Djocja at the bazar, under the name oi"gelenje", 

 is, however, another species, to wit C. purpurascens, Bl, 1 perceived this 

 as well from a written information of Mr V. Zyp, as by a flower-bearing 

 specimen sent to me by Mr. Hj. Jensen from Klaten. 



To this species 1 reduce provisorily, until better material for study is 

 available, some small plants growing in the teak forests and called by 

 diverse local names, the most commonly used of which are T. ladi (red 

 and white form) and T. putri. 



Diverse stocks are grown in Mr. Heyne 's culture garden under the 

 numbers 683, 685, 687, 691 and 701, which belong to this group, of which 

 685 is from Kediri (sub nomine locali "temu giring") the rest from Rem- 

 bang (Randublatung). 



The only one of these which has flowered (Heyne 691) has orange- 

 tinged flowers like those of C. soloensis and green leaves, with exception 

 (sometimes) of the first ones, but the rhizomes are rather different. They 

 consist of very short members not thicker than a little finger, falcate very 

 ramose, vertically and horizontally, the principal ones reflexed upward 

 with a geniculate bent and then growing to an oviform erect annulated 

 bulb 50 mm. long and 25 wide. The colour is constantly 181 Cod. in 683 

 H. 176 in the other numbers. These short abruptly upcurved rhizomes 

 remind those of C. petiolata, Roxb., called "T. putri" in Batavia, which 

 however is a very different species. Here is also to be mentioned a form 

 from these same forests known as "temu gepijitan" or "temu ladi". (Kalshoven 

 1642, flowering Dec. 1917), with a dark purple coma, and which is pro- 

 bably a different species but still badly known. 



Curcuma brog. Val. n. p. 



Tuber parvus, globosus vel cylindricus. Rhizomatis rami breves medio 

 leviter inflati, incurvi, extus nitide mellei intus sordide citrini. Radices fili- 



