THE SCITAMI NEiE OF THE PHILIPPINES. 
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Rhizome large, fleshy, with oblong rounded tubers, orange-colored 
inside. Leaves in pairs, lanceolate, cuspidate, glabrous, thin, bright 
green, with usually a central purple-brown bar, 25 to 60 cm long, 8 to 
15 cm wide. Scape from the rhizome, not from the leaf-tuft, often 
appearing without the leaves, the peduncle 15 cm long, the spike as long 
as the peduncle, of about 20 bracts, the lower ones green, more or less 
tipped with pink, the upper ones lanceolate, deep-crimson. Flowers four 
to each bract. Bracteoles thin, transparent, 2 cm long, lanceolate. 
Calyx small, bifid, hairy. Corolla-tube 2 cm long, funnel-shaped, yellow- 
ish-white, the lobes 1 cm long. Staminodes oblong, obtuse, erect. Lip 
oblong-obovate, bilobed, yellowish. Stamen-filament adnate to the stami- 
nodes, short, broad. Anther spurred. Capsule ovoid, trigonous, straw- 
colored, dehiscing irregularly. Seeds ellipsoid, the aril white, lacerate. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Antipolo, For. Bur. 7046 Curran; Malapadnabato, 
Merrill 2713: Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Whitford 1267, Leiberg 6142: 
Province of Benguet, Sablan, Elmer 6170: Province of Zambales, For. Bur. 6924 
Curran: Province of Pampanga, Bolster 26. Negros, For. Bur. 11235 Everett. 
Guimaras, Ritchie 26. Mindoro, Pola, Merrill 2404; Mansalay, Merrill 90S. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Mrs. Clemens 425. 
The zedoary is said to be wild in the eastern Himalayas, and is now spread 
all over the tropics of the East, being cultivated for curry stuff and as medicine. 
It readily establishes itself and remains long after the disappearance of the 
garden in which it was formerly cultivated. 
Mr. Ritchie gives the native name Lampoyang for it. This word is the 
Malay one for Zingiber Cassumunar and is wrongly affixed to the zedoary. 
2. C. longa Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 2; Koenig in Retz. Ohs. 3 (1783) 71; Roxb. 
As. Research. 1 1 (1810) 340; FI. Ind. 1 (1820) 32; Horan. Monog. (1862) 23; 
Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 88b; Bentley & Trimen Med. PI. t. 269; Baker in Hook. f. 
FI. Brit. Ind. 6 (1890) 214; K. Schum. in Pflanzenreich 1. c. 108. 
C. domestica Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 10. 
Amomum curcuma Jacq. Iiort. Vindob. 3 (1776) t. 4- 
Rhizome large, with elliptic or eylindric tubers, the interior deep- 
orange-red. Leaves 5 or 6, thin, lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, acuminate, 
cuspidate, glabrous, pale-green, 45 cm long, 12 to 18 cm wide; petiole 
channeled, 20 cm long. Spike 10 to 20 cm long, on a peduncle of about 
the same length. Bracts oblong to lanceolate, 2 to 3 cm long, spreading, 
recurved, pale-green, the terminal ones sometimes rosy. Calyx tubular, 
with three short points. Corolla-tube longer, the lobes oblong, obtuse, 
creamy-white. Lip oblong, the sides curved upward and the tip 
deflexed, apex truncate, white with a deep-yellow central bar. Stami- 
nodes as long as the petals. Stamen-filament broad ; anther small, ovate, 
with two rather long decurved horn-like processes, the connective not 
prolonged. 
Palawan, For. Bur. 7457 Curran, near the seashore. 
The turmeric is a native of India, and here is obviously an escape from 
cultivation. 
