| + | Zingiber zerumbet, Roscoe. Sts. 12-20 in. high, stout, from a tuberous rhizome: lvs. densely aggregated, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, base acute, both surfaces glabrous or scattered pilose beneath, 3 1/2 – 6 x 2 – 2 3/4 in.: spike subglobose, dense, 2 – 3 1/2 in. long; bracts obtuse, pale green, margins pubescent (sometimes, at least when older, red): calyx spathe-like, white; corolla-tube slender, lobes lanceolate, white, lip short, broadly suborbicular or subovate, pale yellow, tinted orange in the center (sometimes red-spotted), lateral lobes short, rotundate. India and Malaya. B.M. 2000. |