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28 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Curcuma: 
are four feet high, or more ; a very faint ferruginous tinge runs down - 
the middle, which is very conspicuous in those that appear first in 
the season; whereas it is scarcely to be observed in the latter. The 
flowers are large, few in number, with the erterior border red, and 
the interior deep yellow. The bractes to the fertile part of the spike 
ferruginous, those of the coma few, and of a pretty bright crimson 
colour. 
8. C. rubescens. R. 
Bulbs ovate-lanceolate, and with the palmate tubers inwardly pearl- 
coloured. Leaves broad lanceolate, on red winged petioles, above 
. the sheaths; rib red. Scape and scales red. Flowers longer than 
their bractes. : a 
A native of Bengal. Flowering time the months of April and May, 
soon after which the leaves appear ; and decay about the begining - 
of the cool season, in November. Every part has a strong, but plea- - 
sant aromatic smell when bruised, particularly the root. | 
Root of several, erect, solid, conical, pale straw or peail-coloured, 
powerfully aromatic bulbs, which gave support to the former years 
» foliage, and are strongly marked with the circular scars thereof; from 
their opposite sides the scapes, «aud stems of the succeeding year 
spring, which form similar new bulbs when those of the former year 
decay; but during their existence, there issues round their lower 
half, a number of strong fleshy fibres, many of hdi end in ovaté 
or sub-cylindrical, pale white, slightly aromatic tubers, which also 
pen with the original parent bulb.— Stems, as in the other iinde 
the flowers begin to perish in wem (six or eight 
-of them forming the above-mentioned. stems, of about three, or four 
feet in height, leaves inciuded,) petioled on their sheathing base, 
broad-lanceolate, cuspidate, smooth, strongly marked with parallel 
veins; of an uniform dark-green, with the nerves or ribs red, from 
"Awelveto twenty-four inches long, by live or six broad.— Petioles, and. 
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