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Batavia, cult, mal. " Lampujang gadja" (::^ "elephant Zerumbet") 

 Hr.YNE 67.— Djondjakarta, cult, mal. Lampujang, sent by Mr. Jensen, (cult. 

 Heyne, 704). - Anibarawa, Sepakuiig, 1000 in. in monte Ungaran, Cult. (Kds 

 36209 B, Oct., June.) 



Timor "in sago-swamps" leg. A. 0. de Castro. A living rootstock 

 sent by the collector was cultivated my Mr. J. J. Smith in his private 

 garden, and flowering abundantly proved to be identical with the Batavian 

 "lampujang gadja". 



Amboina, cult. A living plant cultivated in the Bot. garden under XI 

 B. VI 94, collected by Boerlage at Amboina. Dried specimens were col- 

 lected by Boerlage at Toeiehoe, wildgrowing? 



Buitenzorg in Hort Bog. No. XI B. V 71 and XI B. V 128 of unknown 

 origin; one of these (named Dymzewiczia graniinea) originates from the 

 same stock, formerly cultivated in the agricultural garden, which was 

 collected by Beccari in 1866 and mentioned by Sch, Ic. 



These numbers and V. 151 have obovate-lanceolate leaves attenuate 

 at the base and differ thereby considerably from the cultivated type, but 

 the flowers and bracts are identical. 



The species is mentioned from the Pliilippines, Malacca and New- 

 Guinea. I did not see any flowers of these. But the description given by 

 Ridley in Alat. 1907,27, "lip pale yellow with an orange bar" agrees not 

 with Z. Zerumbet but with Z. aromaticum and "lip faintly mottled pink" 

 points with certitude to Z. Ottensii. Val. (see below), for in all mem- 

 bers of the Zerumbet-group the pink colour is excluded. So the occurence 

 in Malacca of the true Z. Zerumbet seems to be still incertain. 



Blume professes Z. Zerumbet to be found spontaneously in Java, 

 though rarely. 



Trimen (1898,259) gives a good description of this species, to which 

 1 shall add some details: The stem reaches 1. to 1.25 mm. Leaves sub- 

 sessile elliptic-oblong, the uppermost narrower, the lower ones broader, 

 subacuminate, very acute, with an obtuse or rounded base, on an average 

 250-300 mm. long 50-85 wide, mostly subglabrous, but never quite without 

 some scattered appressed hairs and the very short petiole always villous. 

 Ligula quite entire, sparsely villous near the base, 20-25 mm. long, scariose. 

 Lower leaves 220 X 80 with an obliquely rounded base. 



Scape 250-300 mm. long, 14 mm. wide, bright green (307,312 cod.) 

 Sheaths 45-60 mm. long, the lower ones very obtuse or subtruncate, all 

 covered with a fine tomentum, olivaceous, all with a narrow membranous 

 margo, the uppermost with a short weak mucro, becoming inconspicuous 

 in drying. 



Spike widely elliptic or ovate and obtuse, rarely almost acute, never 

 quite acute at the top, entirely bright green (280,287 cod.) The largest ones 



