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agrees perfectly with ours, only the rhizome is described as internally 

 "red-violet," the younger parts "pale pink". 



Distribution: Java; near Buitenzorg 300 M, cultivated. 



Sumatra. Sibulangit spontaneous in light forest, 500 M. (Lörzing 5213). 



Malacca, Pungit maj. Griffith, Ridley (vide supra.). 



8. Zingiber Cassumunar Roxb. 1810, 347 tab. 5 (non vidi);R0SC0E 

 1828, tab. 85; K. Schum. 1904, 179; Gagnepaîn 1908, 84; RiDL. 1907, 28 ; 

 Heyne 1913, 190. Rumph 1749, 154. 



Spike fusiform or cylindrical ovate, acute, 100— 160 X 30— 35 mm. long. 

 Lowest bracts almost round, the mean bracts obovale lanceolate acute 

 Free parts rhombiform, sericeous, top and margin tomentose. Bracts den- 

 sely imbricated not convex, rather coriaceous. 



Labellum white, large, suborbicular, with a somewhat crisped edge, 

 profoundly incised, almost to the middle in old flowers, at last split 

 almost to the base. In newly opened flowers however only emarginate. 

 Staminodes ovate subacute halfway adnate to the base of the lip, not 

 prominent sideways in the open laid flower. In the Javanese plant lip and 

 faux 20X18, in the Sumatran ones lip and faux 30X25. 



Leaves sessile linear-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate acute with an 

 obtuse base, 250X20 — 350X30 mm. long, glabrous except" the back of 

 the costa which is puberulous and pilose at its base. Ligula very short, 

 truncate puberulous. 



Distribution. The species is cultivated in Java from the plain unto 

 1300 M. in the mountains. In the Bzg. Herb. 1 found specimens from Batavia 

 (Ploem 1863), from Bzg. (Heyne 13). from Takoka. 1200 M. Kds 33378 B. 

 Ngarengan Djapara Kds 35533 B, Sepakung (Semarang) 1300 M. Kds 36207 B, 

 all cultivated. It was also collected in teak forests in Kediri (Kalshoven 

 1917), where it is perhaps spontaneous. Vernacular name "Banglai," or 

 "Panglai" sund., "Bengte" Jav., no other local names. 



Outside of Java. 



Sumatra: Sibulangit, light forest at 500 M., Lörzfng 5214. "Bracts 

 much appressed, plane, brightbrown, uppermost 1/3 part dark greenish- 

 brown, near the margin brightgreen, margin membranous, pale brown. 

 Calyx bright red brown, corolla pale yellow. Rhizome internally pale flesh,- 

 coloured, the cortex more yellow, with an acrous smell." 



Amboina, Rumph. cult. 



Coromandel and Bengal, spontaneous (Roxb I. c.) 



Malacca cult, and an escape in waste grounds, Ridley 1907, 28; 

 Cochinchina cult., Gagnepain I. c. 



Ridley cites as a synonym Amomuin montanuin Koeii. (Retz 1779,52) 

 "species habitans in sylvis opacis montosis siamensibus"; but KOENiKOS 



