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CURCUMA LONGA. LONG-ROOTED TURMERIC. 



STNONTMJ. Curcuma. Pharm, Lond, '<S Edinh, Cafinacoms 

 radice crocea, five Curcuma officinarnm. Tourn, Lift, p, ^6j, 

 Curcuma longa. Konig^ in Rez. ohf. bot.fafc, 3. p, 72. Curcuma 

 radice longa. Zanon, H'tjl, PL ed, Monf.p, 86. tab, ^g\ Curcuma 

 domeftica major. Rumph. Herb, Amboin. tom,^, p, 162. tab, Gj 



Manjella-Kura. Hort, Malab, torn, 11, p, 21. tab, 11. Amomum 

 Curcuma. Jacqutn^ Hort, Vindob, torn, ^, p, 5. tab, 4. 



Clafs Monandria. Ord, Monogynia. Lin, Gen. Plant, 6 



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EJf, Gen, Cb, Stamina 4-fterilia, quinto fertilL 



Bp*Ch, C. foliis laaceolatis : nervis lateralibus numerofijOSmis, 



THE root is perennial, tuberous, and furnifhed with flrong jfibres, 

 externally brownifh, and internally of ^ deep, yellow colour: the 

 leaves are radical, large, lance-lhaped, obliquely nerved; at the bottom. 

 Vaginal, and clofely embracing each other : the fcapus, or flower ftem, 

 rifes, from the centre of the leaves ; it is fhort, thick, fmooth, and 

 forms a fpike of numerous bradeal imbricated fcales, between which 



the flowers fucceffively iffue 



monopetalous, confifting 



of a narrow tube, divided at the mouth into three oval fegments : the 

 nedarium occupies the wide under- fmus of .the corolla, and is the 

 tnoft confpicuous part of the flower ; it is of aflefh colour, petal-like, 



large, fpreading, and cut into three divifions, of which the middlemofl 

 is the largefl: : the filaments are five, four of which are ered, flender^ 

 linear, contraded, fterile ; the fifth is petal-formed, lodged within 

 the nedarium, and cleft at the top, to which the anthera is adjoined ; 

 the germen is roundifh, and placed below the corolla : the ftyle is the 

 iength of the filament, and furnished with a fimple hooked fligma : 

 the capfule is royncjifh, .three-celled, three-valyed, and contains nu- 

 meroM^ fmall feed 



No. 21. A.Y Turmer 





