Diet, 166 
■Curcuma 
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9 
Glova, 
The Mount, 
Fetcham Park, 
Leatherhead, 
16th. Fovemher, 1 28 
My dear Holtturn. 
I have been working at Curcuma today; and I 
find that there are ten vernacular names which I ca.nnot 
place. I am writing therefore to suggest that 3^011 should 
endieavout to get into cultivation • these Curcumas, with the 
intention of ascertaining what the^^ are. You possihlj^ will- 
not "be able to do much that will be of immediate service 
to me; but the work wants doing and 3^^011 have in Furtado and 
your^ Malays the machinery® 
These are the Curcumas 
temu giring: what in the Peninsula uncertain; in Java C.he 3 meana 
temu padang 
temu lampu 
teimi yang: the name perha,ps onl}/ wafted over from Sarawak: 
temu put eh; apparently for C. zeodaria, which is temu kunj,ng . 
also ; and why both white and yellow ? /Wui^ ^ 
u u/tUC C X 
temu raya " 
temu lilin 
temu urat, also written temu/.rat 
temu lati , which in Java is C. euchroma 
temu badoh, said 'by Ridley to be the same as the la.st 
They are more likely to flower in Penang than in Singapore 
though of some it is said that they never flower. Dupli- 
ca.tion is advis?.ble. 
Careful notes of the colour and smell of the tubers 
should be made, ^^aleton* s paper in Bull. Jard.Hot Buitenzorgiji 
B 
ser. 2,xv^27, is valuable. He had some material sent to him from 
