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shaped figure; they pass gradually into the broad membranous sheath-edge 

 and they do not form protruded side-lobes. They are nearly glabrous only 

 very near the edge somewhat ciliate. 



The inflorescence is broad and short (90 X- 70). The colour is light- 

 green, the coma mostly very light-pink with dark tops, the intermedial bracts 

 often quite white. The bracts are all broadly elliptical with an acute top 

 and only '/4 or (at the coma) '/s of their length is adnate with the preceding, 

 so that the pouch consists nearly of the free portion. The bract is little 

 concave and not constricted near the base ; the top is spreading with a slight 

 curve. The largest (lowest) bract was 40 X 26, the largest of the coma 

 50 X 23. The flowers do not protrude outside the bracts. The primary bracteole 

 is 22 X 13> the secondary one 19 X 8- The corolla is broad and short: 

 L: 43, K: 8. Tube short and wide (12.), the faux very wide, in proportion 

 to the length of the flower (when flattened, 23). The lip is nearly orbicular 

 (16 X 16), 10 at the base and there is but little separation between the broad 

 mid-lobe, consisting of two round lobules, and the broad side-lobes. The 

 colour is white with a dark yellow mid-band (Jeswiet.) or quite yellow 

 (V. Zijp.) The staminodes are broader than in any other species, broadly 

 elliptical, above rounded, narrowed towards the base, (14.5 X '!)• The 

 filament narrow (4.5 X 2.5). The dorsal coroll-lobe is broadly ovate, quite 

 hairy on the back and at the top. The lateral ones are ovate with a rounded 

 top, upwards narrowed (12 X 10). The stylodia are short (3 — 4). The 

 anther is recognizable by rather short, straight or curved, much spreading 

 spurs, which are grooved on the face, just as in Paracurcuma, and the 

 narrow connective is prolonged to a small lingula between the loculi. 



On a specimen from the Yang mountains the dimensions are: K 13, 

 C 44, P.d. 13 X 14, P. 1.13 X 10, F 12 X 25, Lab. 18X20, std. 15X12, 

 fil, 4X3, stylod. 3, Bractea 23 X 14. 



Distribution. This species is cultivated universally throughout Java 

 in the villages, and the rhizomes are sold at all bazars with the certain name 

 "giring", not used for any other cultivated kind. It occurs also wild growing 

 in the forest of all parts of Java and is apparently endemic. At least no 

 species has been described by foreign authors which can be reduced hereto. 

 RuMPH I.e. p. 169 mentions the "giring" very shortly; he says that "the 

 rhizomes are long and narrow, internally pale yellow and bitter", a diagnose 

 which may concern our species. 



Native names besides "gihng". are: in Tomo, Soemedang, West-Java: 

 "djaha" in East-Java, Pasuruan: "tema giring", "tenia litjin", "tema konèng", 

 "tema lateng" (local name in mt. Yang.). 



Typical specimens were sent from the teak-forest of Tjabak, (Rembang) 

 (central Java) and also from Kritik (Kediri) East-Java, with thename "temii 

 poh" a name given unvariably to the Curcuma Mangga in Djocdjakarta and 



