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D i s t r i b ut i n: C.petiolata is cultivated injavaso far known only in Batavia 

 and Buitenzorg and seeins to be rare. Periiaps it occurs wild growing in 

 the teak forests of central Java, but the rhizomes received with the same 

 name "temu puteri" from the teak forests of Randu blatung, belong to a 

 different species, see under C. soloensis. 



Outside of Java. The type plant of this species was found in Pegu, 

 the form described by Hooker in Moulmayne. It is not mentioned as an 

 inhabitant neither of Siam and Cochinchina, nor of Malacca. 



This might be the species described by Rumph as Curcuma agrestis 

 sive sylvestris which he distinguished from the "tommon" (=temen) or 

 "kunjif by some characters seeming to agree with our species: "Folium 

 subito a petiolo angustatum, quod ilia tommon sensim faciunt. Radix in 

 binos tresve tantum nodos est divisus, nullos distinctos exhibens digitos, 

 externe ex cinereo colore flavescit, instar straminis, interne pallida est, cor 

 gerens flavum, inodorum fere, saporem habeus amaricantem. Ipsius hypo- 

 phytum altius et elegantius est ac faciilius progerminat quam in Curcuma 

 domestica. Squamae superiores fuscae sunt interquas flavi eminent flores". 



Here are certainly combined some characters which distinguish C. 

 petiolata from C. domestica and C. purpurascens, but of course the con- 

 clusion is far from convincing and further investigations shall be wanted 

 to ascertain the occurrence of this species in Ambon. 



Native names: "temu puteri" in Batavia, and, if this is the C. agrestis 

 meant by Rumph: "Kuning utan" and, Kuning tommon" ("koneng temen" 

 is at present the Sunda-name of C. domestica); Balinese "Tommon tihing" 

 Javanese "tommon badur" (at present the name of the wild form of C. Mangga). 



Ç. Aurantica v. Zijp (1916, 340). 



Through the kindness of Mr. v. Zijp i recieved of this interesting 

 plant a tuber; which soon geminated and flowered in Jan. 1917. By the 

 help of Mr. Beekman, Director of the forest-experiment station, I recieved 

 other specimens with living flowers from West-Central and East-Java. 

 These give me just cause to some remarks. 



Already at the first sight the plant has a quite other aspect than an 

 Eucurcuma. The spurious stem, formed by the sheaths, is during the first 

 flowering only 50—120 mm. high and the leaves are short-stalked, in 

 one plant 30—80, in another one (from Ngarengan) 100-120; and sprea- 

 ding. The longest petioles which I measured in a fructiferous plant from 

 Tomo were 230 mm. 



The tubers are already described by Mr. V. Z, in contradiction to 

 Eucurcuma they do not form rhizomes or very short ones, that form new 

 tubers, which thus remain together in groops of sometimes 2, sometimes of 5— 6. 



The leaves which are very recognizable as well by the shape 190 X 100 



