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oblong-ovate (13X8) the dorsal petal 13X10. Tube with the hairring 

 20; stamiiiodes at the lipside 14, ad the filatnentside 11; filament 4X3; 

 lip 17X15; faux flattened 12X22. Tube 18 mm., stylodes 4 mm. The 

 flowers are pure white, the mid-lobe yellow. 



Distribution: Curcuma Mangga is cultivated in Buitenzorg, Batavia, 

 Djocdjacarta and diverse other localities. I never met with specimens 

 of the type collected wildgrowing in the teak forests or elsewhere and as such 

 it makes an exception to all other cultivated specimens, all of which are 

 occasionally met with in the teak forests, where they often are gathered on 

 a large scale for trading purposes. 



The malay name is unvariably /e/nu TWon^'^o; in Madura and the eastern 

 part of Java and in Djocdjacarta it is called "tema" or "teinu poh", 

 poh being the Madurese name of the mangofruit. Locally sometimes "temu 

 badjangan", another local name of the mango (Bodjonegoro, according to Mr 

 Ralshoven). In Batavia it is called sometimes "temu lalab", this being a 

 médecine made of the rhizome. Rumph mentions the "temu Mangga" with 

 a few lines. He declares this kind not to be well known in Ambon, and 

 mentions the farine and diverse medicines prepared from the rhizome. 



Outside of Java this species seems to be cultivated in Singapore. At 

 least it seems most probable that this is the temu "pauh" cultivated by 

 the Malays, having "a yellow rhizome, with a smell and taste of wild car- 

 rots." (Ridley 1899,118). 1 presume this "pauh" means "mango"", as well 

 as it does in Atjeh, Madura and in the Buginese land. 



This species is not the Curcuma amada, Roxb. as I took it to be 

 formerly. (Heyne 1. c.) before 1 had seen the lateral scape. The spike of 

 C. amada as drawn by Roscoe t. 99, and more especially the median lobe 

 of the lip, rather far protruded, have some resemblance to C. Mangga; 

 and the name 'Mmocfc" ossawet/ by Roxburgh after a Bengali word, meaning 

 Mango-ginger, because of the Mango-aroma of the rootstock, indicates a 

 remarkable analogy to our species. All this however is purely accidental for 

 C. amada having a central spike, is not related nearly to C. Mangga. 



There are two varieties of C. Mangga, the first, cutlivated here (C. Heyne 

 5) is remarkable by its conspicuous dark purple coloured middle part of 

 the leaf in the young plants, but it has the same taste and aroma of the 

 rhizomes as has the type, and in a full grown state it is not easily to be 

 distinguished from it. Flowers are still unknown. The second should perhaps 

 be considered as a proper species, which combines characters of C. Zedoaria 

 and C. Mangga, for the flowers show the protruded lip and rather long 

 spurs of C. Mangga, while the rootstocks have very little of the Mangga 

 type, neither in form nor in proprieties. The first appearing leaves have a 

 narrow purple cloud, the full grown plant resembles C. Mangga. This form 

 is interesting .because it is the only known species of Eucurcuma which 



