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‘Tas. 4435. 
CURCUMA corpata 
Heart-leaved Curcuma. 
Nat. Ord. ScrramInr®.—MonanpRIA Monoe@ynta. 
Gen. Char. Cal. tubulosus, tridentatus. Corolle tubus sursum dilatatus, limbi 
lacinie exteriores interioribus lateralibus conformes; /abellum majus, patens. 
Filamentum petaloideo-dilatatum, carinatum, apice trilobum, lobo intermedio 
anthera bicalcarata terminato. Ovarium inferum triloculare. Ovula loculorum 
angulo centrali plurima, horizontalia, anatropa. Stylus filiformis ; stigma capi- 
tatum. Capsula trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis. _Semina plurima, arillata.— 
Herbe: in India orientali tropica indigene, acaules ; radicibus palmato-tuberosis 
perennantes ; foliis herbaceis, petiolis vaginantibus, bifariis ; scapo simplici lateral 
v. centrali, spica simplici, erecta, comosa, inferne bracteis saccatis subimbricata, 
floribus flavescentibus intra quamvis bracteam ternis quinisve approwimatis, brac- 
teolatis. Endl. : 
Curcuma cordata ; radice digitato-palmata, tuberibus plurimis globosis ex apice 
filorum subfusiformium pendulis, foliis ovato-cordatis acuminatis concolo- 
ribus utrinque sericeo-villosis petiolis longitudine eequantibus, spica centrali 
supra vaginas sessili oblongo-cylindrica, bracteis ovatis obtusissimis villosis 
9 amplissimo patentibus, come lucidis violaceis apice purpureo-maculatis. 
all. 
Curcuma cordata. Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. v.1. p. 8. t. 10. 
One of the most beautiful of a singularly handsome group of 
plants, too much neglected in our stoves, where, whether in 
flower or only in leaf, they add greatly to the ornament of the 
house. The present is among many discoveries of Dr. Wallich, 
who found it in thick Bamboo forests on the hills opposite 
Prome, and whose admirable figure and description above 
quoted have left nothing for future botanists to add. Plants 
were sent to Kew and to Syon House by Dr. Wallich, and 
from a flowering specimen at the latter place our figure was 
made in July, 1847. ee ee 
Dzscr. A handsome herbaceous plant, with little that can be 
called a stem, and that little consisting of the sheathing bases of 
the leaf-stalks. Zeaves a foot long (and petiole rather more 
than that) bifarious, ovate, acuminate, retuse or cordate at the 
base, obliquely penninerved, of a uniform full green colour. 
APRIL Ist, 1849. a E2 
