Curcuma. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 27 
whole height of the plant about four feet.—Spikes lateral, appearing 
with, or rather before the leaves, about as long as their scapes, toge- 
ther about afoot long. Scales, lower fertile; bractes green, with a fer- 
ruginous tinge. Coma deep bright red, tending to crimson.— Corol, 
exterior border red ; inner yellow. 
6. eruginosa. R. 
. Bulbs ovate, and with the numerous palmate iubes, inwardly 
wruginous. Leaves petioled, broad-lanceolar, smooth, above the 
middle a faint ferruginous evanescent: cloud, on the Bpper suríace on- 
ly% 2 ever, other part geb. os ccn uen 
__. Avery stately species, wissen] rom Burma by the Rev. Dr. W. 
Carey, into Bengal, where it blossoms in May, immediately af fter which 
the leaves begin to appear. It is distinguished from all our other | 
Curcumas by the internal zruginous, or verdigrease-like colour of its 
ovate bulbs, and its short thick palmate tubers; while the oval pendu- 
lous tubers, with which it abounds, are inwardly of a clear pale pearl 
colour. The comose lateral spike is in this, as it is in the other spe- 
cies. "The exterior border of the coro is rose-coloured ; the interior 
deep yellow. The leaves are broad-lanceolar, of a firm texture, and 
smooth on both sides ; length from two to three feet, and from six to 
nine inehes broad. Petioles and their sheathing portions together 
from two to three feet long ; which gives to the whole VH a woe 
si, Spies: to an feet. | , 
7. C. (vga AR. ii 
Bulbs and palmate tuber copious, Loon palo. fd. Sheaths 
of the scapes, and leaves ferruginous-red, with a faint mark af: the 
same colour on the middle of the 1 upper surface of the leaves. 
A native of Bengal. Flowers in April and May. By attending 
to the pale yellow very fragrant roots, and to the rusty reddish sheaths 
of the scapes and leaves, this species will be readily known. _ The 
leaves, as in most of the others, are broad-lanceolar, (thatis, th e: taj € 
evi. toward each end ;) including the shcsibe: mi. etioles, 
par UIS. = 
