Crossword-Solution: ZINGIBERACEAE 13 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 27

The splendid foliage of the broad-leaved Musaceae and Zingiberaceae, with their curious and brilliant flowers; and the elegant and varied forms of plants allied to Begonia and Melastoma, continually attract the attention in this region.

Here and there on the river banks and coasts are a few Convolvulaceae, not equal to our garden Ipomaeas, and in the deepest shades of the forest some fine scarlet and purple Zingiberaceae, but so few and scattered as to be nothing amid the mass of green and flowerless vegetation.

Various species of _Maranta_ yield basket materials in the West Indies and South America; and the _Tirite_, a species of _Calathea_, a member of the order _Zingiberaceae_, is also employed similarly in Trinidad.

CARDAMOM, the fruit of several plants of the genera _Elettaria_ and _Amomum_, belonging to the natural order Zingiberaceae, the principal of which is _Elettaria Cardamomum_, from which the true officinal or Malabar cardamom is derived.

Lesser galangal root, _radix galangae minoris_, the ordinary galangal of commerce, is the dried rhizome of _Alpinia officinarum_, a plant of the natural order Zingiberaceae, growing in the Chinese island of Hainan, where it is cultivated, and probably also in the woods of the southern provinces of China.