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times, under different Names, in Profeffo# Gmelins Edition of Linueus's 
 Syflema Nature. By Jonas Dryavier, M. A. Libr, Ri $. and 
SM DE Spe Sa 
XVII. On Genera and Species of ses occur #wice or three 
Read July 3, and Oëtober 2, 1792. 
Page 5. MOMUM CURCUMA of Jacquin is the fame as . 
Curcuma longa, page 8. fo far as Linné by that name 
meant the officinal Curcuma, and certainly the fame as the figure 
of Regnault, which the Editor quotes for Curcuma longa, though 
that figure is not very good; nor does it differ from the Curcuma 
longa of Koenig, in Retzii Obf. Bot. 3. page 72, the flowers of 
which, fent by Koenig, preferved in fpirits, I have compared with 
. Jacquin’s defcription and figure, and found them to agree. 
This plant does not agree with the generic character which 
Linné has given of Curcuma in Mufa Cliffort. page I5, from 
thence copied in the different editions of his Genera Plantarum; but 
that charaéter was evidently drawn up from his Curcuma rotunda, 
the Manja-kua of the Hortus Malabaricus, a plant unknown to me, 
but which, to judge from Rheede’s figure, is very different in fruc- 
tification from the officinal Curcuma, Linné has no doubt been 
led into this miftake by the aflertion in Hortus Malabaricus, that 
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