vegetables to which our plant belongs, are agreed in the 
opinion of its being of the same species “with that 
figured in the plate we have quoted from the work of 
Rheede, And if the Curcuma rotunda of Linnzus has been 
founded upon this figure, and we can trace it to no other 
source, that species resolves of course into K/MPFERIA pan- 
durata. 
A native of Sumatra; introduced subsequently to the 
last edition of the Hortus Kewensis hy Sir Abraham Hume. 
The drawing was made from a specimen which flowered this 
autumn, in the hothouse of Mr. Griffin, at South Lambeth. 
It may not be supererogatory to some readers, if we remark, 
that Ginger, Arrow-root, and Turmerick (the basis of Cur- . 
rie-powder), substances familiar to every one, are preparas: 
tions of the tuberous root of different species belonging to 
the same natural tribe with the plant before them. 
K/MPFERIA, according to Dr. Roxburgh, differs from 
the closely kindred genus MHEDYCHIUM by a radical in- 
florescence and foliage; by a corolla in which the lip is not, 
reversed, and a filament which terminates beyond the 
anther in two small lobes. 
Rootstock of pandurata round-ovate, sending out straight 
fasciculately descending thick fleshy radicles beset with 
fibres. Leaves bifarious, petioled, from a foot and half to 
two feet high, upright; petioles channelled, sheathing, en- 
closed at the base by rootsheaths, and having a mem- 
branous stipule or ochrea, which crosses them within, near 
their middle, and is continued in a narrow border down- 
wards along their sides: blades ovcily lanceolate, loosely 
nerved, terminated by a somewhat sudden point, awned' 
three or four inches broad, thinly sprinkled with deciduous 
down beneath, clouded over at the upper surface by a fine 
white efflorescence, scarcely perceptible but through a 
magnifier. Spike of closely imbricated bractes ; flowers se- 
veral, appearing one ata time. Calyx several times shorter 
than the tube, contracted and unegually cleft at the orifice. 
Corolla 2-3 inches high, pale flesh colour, with crimson 
veins; tube white, twice the length of the limb, slender, 
straightish, pubescent within; ¿imb six-parted, nodding, 
campanulate, semiringent; three exterior segments, nar- 
rowest, oblong, 3-nerved, of one length; of these the 
middle one is the uppermost of the flower, lanceolate 
pointed and broader than the other two, which are linear 
