Tab. 5821. 



CURCUMA petiolata. 



Long-petioled Curcuma. 



Nat. Ord. SciTAMINIE^E. MoNANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Gen Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5620). 



Curcuma petiolata ; rhizomate tuberibusque parvis paucis intus flavis, foliis 

 longe petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis basi rotundatis cordatisve, 

 pedunculo terminali breviusculo, corona oblonga breviuscula bracteis 

 late et longe confluentibus inferioribus reniformibus margine brevi re- 

 curvo roseo, superioribus gradatira majoribus, supremis radiantibus 

 limbo breviter ovato subacute roseo-purpureo, floribus bracteis fere 

 occlusis flavis, calycis limbo brevi, corolla? tubo inferne cylindrico 

 superne campanulato, lobis late ovatis subacutis interioribus paulo lon- 

 gioribus labello brevi late recurvo apice fisso, anthera oblonga calcaribus 

 subulatis porrectis. 



Curcuma petiolata, Roxb. Fl. Ind., vol. i. p. 37 ; Boscoe's Monandrian Plants, 

 tab. 100; fforaninoiv, Prod. Monog. Scitam., p. 23. 



The very beautiful plant here figured is a native of the 

 forests of Pegu and Martaban, where it was discovered by a 

 Mr. F. Carey, probably a connexion of the eminent Indian 

 Botanical Missionary, the Rev. W. Carey, who took charge 

 of the Calcutta Botanic Garden during Dr. Roxburgh's illness 

 and absence, and who, in 1831, edited Roxburgh's "Flora 

 Indica," in which this species is first described. In that work- 

 Roxburgh states that Curcuma petiolata was sent by Mr. F. 

 Carey to the Calcutta Botanic Gardens, where it flowered in 

 August. Our specimens were transmitted from Moolmayne by 

 our excellent correspondent, the Rev. C. Parish, and flowered 

 in the Royal Gardens in September, 1869. As a species it is 

 closely related to the Turmeric (C. low/a) and to the beautiful 

 C. Australasica (Tab. Nost. 5620), which however, has leaves 

 narrowed at the base, a longer spike, and the flowers are not 



FEBRUARY 1ST, 1870. 



