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CURCUMA longa 
Common Turmerick. 
Nat. ord. Scit.\mine.«. 
CURCUMA L. — Corolla limbo utroque 3-partito. Anthera diiplt x, Iiasi 
bicalcarata. Capsula bilocuiaris seminibus numeroais arillatn. Embryo 
simplex, albamine et vitello. Fl. vnd. 1. 20. 
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Sect. II. Spica central i. 
C. longa ; bulbil jmnris cum tuberibus numerosis longis palmfttis intus au- 
rantiacis, foliis Idiur& pefiplatii lato^lanceoUitit unicoloribus. Fl, md. 
1. 32. -» r 
Mangilla-Kua. Rheede Hort. Mai. W. p. 2\. t. W. 
Curcuma domestica major. Rumph. amhoin. 5. p. 162. t. 67. 
Amomum Curcuma. Jacq. vind. 3. t. 4. 
Curcuma longa. Retz. obs. 3.'72. Willd. sp. pi. I. H. Rom. et Schultes, 
After the elaborate descriptions of this plant which have 
been given by Konig in Retzius's ObservationeSr and by 
Jacquin in the Hortus Vindobonensis, it appears unnecessary 
to describe it anew. 
Like the rest of its genus, it produces its flowers enve- 
loped in an imbricated spike of bracteae, wliich in this species 
are pale yellow, with a slight tinge of pink at the top where 
the bracteae are destitute of flowers. 
Its native country is not known with precision, but it is 
cultivated to a great extent in every part of Bengal, where 
it produces large crops of its deep yellow roots, which are 
known in England under the name of Turmerick. 
bur drawing was made at Mr. Oblviirs Nursery during 
last summer. It is an herbaceous plant, and requires the 
heat of the stove. 
The following is stated in the Flora Indica to be the 
mode of cultivating this plant in Bengal : 
" The ground must be ricii, friable* and so high as not 
