Zingiber (zinjiber)

[NL. (Adanson, 1763; used earlier by Lobel, 1576, and, as Gingiber, by Mattioli, about 1554), produces membranous hyaline tubular calys, and a cylindrical corolla-tube dilated into narrow spreading lobes, the posterior one erect and incurved. The fruit is a globose or oblong capsule, finally irregularly ruptured, and discharging rather aril which is sometimes much larger than the seed. The pungently aromatic roots of several species are the source Ziphiinæ brittle, translucent, of a deep-red color, sometimes inclining to yellowish. Also called red zinc ore, or red oxid of zinc.