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Spitîa maxima, (nunc 150-180 X 50-60 mm) cylindrica acirtiiiscula, laevia, 

 sericeo-tomentosa. Bracteac late ellipticae (50X36) suborbiculares, rotundatae, 

 appressae hand gibbosae, margine angusto villoso, sub. apice submucro- 

 natae, sericeo-puberulae. Bracteola ovato-oblonga nunc 30 X 10, calycem 

 hand superans. 



Java, leg. Kds, sine numéro. 



Though there is so very litle known about this species 1 do not hesitate 

 to relate it here, because it is certainly new and it is certain to be redis- 

 covered as soon as the ultimate eastern and western parts of Java are better 

 scrutinized. 



It seems to belong to the "acuminata" (or "puberula") group. 

 Species male cognitae: 



Zingiber brevifolium K. ScHUM. 1899, 268; 1900, 225; 1904, 167. Nova- 

 Guinea: Kaiser Wilh.-land, Lauterbach n. 1596. (non vidi). Species prope 

 Z. cassiimunar militari apparet. 

 Z. pachystachys, see above. 



Z. porphyrosphaera, K. Schum. 1. c. Borneo, Rejang (Haviland 442). 

 Z. stenostachys, K. Schu-ivi. Borneo, Guning Balacan et Sakumbang,(KoRTHALS). 

 Z. macrorhynchus, K. Schum. Sumatra, (Forbes 1756 A.) 

 Z. coloratiim, N. E. Brown. Nord-West Borneo, (Burbidge). 

 Z. borneense, K. Schum. Borneo Sarawak (Haviland 1855), G. Sakumbang 

 (Korthals). 



Z. macrocephahim (Zoll.) K. Schuman East-|ava, Maiang Zoll. 2293. 



Z. tongtak K. Schum. Malay Arch. "Teysman". This species is most pro- 

 bably a synonym of. Z. neglectum Val. 

 Species exclude ndae: 



1. Zingiber marginatum (Roxb?) B1. Enum. (1827, 44) est - Globba 



ma ran tin a Linn. 



The diagnosis of Blume is of no use but from his quotation of Rumph 

 V 148 t 64 f 2 it is manifest that he meant Globba marantina Linn., 

 though the name cited by him, "lampujang pait" points to Z. amaricans. 



2. Zingiber alliaceum K. Schum (1904, t^i Z. gramineum ' 

 Zingiber (elatum?) Herb. Calcutta in Herb. L. B. (not Roscoe tab. 91:) 

 This species was based by K. Schumann upon Donacodes alliaceus, T. et 

 B., probably owing to some wrongly determined specimen of Zingiber 

 gramineum Bl., which he examined. As 1 have demonstrated in Ic. bog 

 (1912 t. 350), D. alliaceus T. et B. was not a Zingiber but a Hornstedtia. 

 In the Leyden Herbarium I saw a specimen much resembling Z. o-ra/zz/n^am 

 distributed by the Calcutta Herbarium, determined with Schuman's own 

 handwriting as Z. alliaceum, and in his monograpliy he omitted Z, elatumRoxB. 



