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aurantiaci, 35—40 mm. loiigi. Calyx 1 7 mm ; coroUae tubus 22 mm., labellum 

 siiborbiculare emarginatum vix latius quam longum, 12 X 13 ; staminodia late 

 elliptica, 8X6. 



This species was brought by the native collector Paidan from a village 

 near Buitenzorg and is grown in the Bot. G. under XI B^ 83; vernacular 

 name: " Lampujang wangi." 



Var. pallida Val. Herba metral-is, Z. amaricanti similis facie spicae et 

 colore, pallida flavo florum, sed labello late ovato, basi latissimo non 

 unguiculato. Calyx 13 mm., coroilae tubus 22 mm, labellum 13X15, sta- 

 minodia 9X6. 



Form only known from a single specimen of unknown origin growing 

 in a garden; much resembling Z. amaricans especially by the colour of the 

 flowers but shape of the labellum very different. "Lampujang paiV\ 



Distribution : Genuina: Cultivated in. West-Java. Batavia and Buitenzorg, 

 (Heyne 38 and 39, from which the above description was taken), and a very 

 near form in Bot garden XI B^ 88. from a village-culture. 



Var minor: 



Spontaneous in forest near Djasinga, Backer 18 Feb. 1918, in the 

 teak forests of all Java, (Randublatung, Ralshoven), Madiun, cult. Gemarang 

 leg, Beume no. 1457. and in Madura, Rapa near Sampang. 100 M, at sha- 

 dowy waysides, Backer 19753, "flower bright orange coloured". Cultivated 

 Heyne. 680, from Kediri. 



Ambon, brought over from Java, according to Rumph and called there "lam- 

 pujang wangi" (aromatic zerumbet) or "lampujang ketjil" ("small zerumbet"). 



"Molucca's and Celebes," teste Rumphius. 



Vernacular name in Batavia and Buitenzorg "lampujang wangi" which 

 is distinguished by expert natives from "lampujang ketjil" (or „lampujang 

 pait"). The wild form however is always called "lampulang pait" or "prit" 

 in Buitenzorg and "lireh" everywhere in Java. 



Malacca: Ridley sub Z. Zerumbet Sm. 



Zingiber amaricans Bl. Enum. (1827, 43). (HI. xv f 14, 15, 17.) 



This species, is nearly related to Z. Zerumbet; Schumann could not 

 distinguish them in his study of the type specimens in the Leyden Her- 

 barium. The two species have in common the rounded or very obtuse rather 

 dense bracts with broad membranaceous and hairy, strohgly appressed 

 margins, while the bracts themselves are a little inflated or convex below 

 the top which is provided with a short mucro. In dried specimens indeed 

 the resemblance is rather great and herbaria specimens of Z. a/noncoos are 

 doubtlessly often confused with those of Z. Zerumbet. 



The difference between the two is however more considerable than 

 the analogies, and 1 consider them , as two distinct species. 



