Curcuma. MONANDRIA MONOGY NIA. |. $9 
sheaths channelled, smooth, and of a deep red colour; a projecting 
process on the inside marks, in all this natural order, the limit of the 
sheath, and the beginning of the petiole.— Scape, radical, lateral, cy- 
lindric, about six inches long, invested in several, dark reddish sheaths. 
— Spike tufted, five or six inches long, erect; Coma less deeply co- 
loured than in Zerumbet.— Bractes, or scales of the spike exactly as. - 
in the other species, each embracing four or five flowers, which ex- 
pand iu succession.— Flowers small, bright yellow, rather longer than 
their bractes, fragrant.— Tube of the corol slender, its mouth com- 
pletely shut with three eit uod grece not iiec i ina 
Hpesuie, 7-5 n es 
— Obs. uae. pude ixbori: of sev spies o 
Curiis, yield a very beautiful, pure starch, like the Arro 
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produced from Maranta arundinacea and Tacca pinnati ifida, ah, 
the natives of the countries where the plants grow, prepare and eat, 
In Travancore, where some of these species abound, this flour, or 
starch, forms, T am told, a large part of the diet of the inhabitants, 
My C. angustifolia is another species which yields the same sub- 
stance; and I have no doubt but the pendulous tubers of this spe- 
cies yield it also, and equally good. 
Since writing the above, I have received from Chittagone, Bha- 
gulpore, and Mirzapore, plants of Cree other sorts, all Rice for 
ie same POM 
ec €. comosa. A 
Bulbs large, oval, ánwardly pale ahehe Aoii ae fer 
tile bractes of a pale pink colour; coma copious and rosy. Leaves 
broad-lanceolar ; a faint ferruginous cloud above the siii at: the 
earliest ones; every other part greet 
A native of Burma. From Rangoon Mr. Felix Carey et ed 
the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where they thrive weil, and blos- - 
som in May, at-which time it is by far the most tih, and the 
largest of the genus, I have yet seen... T 
Bulbs very large, oval, inwardly: of a pale ochra cons colour Pal 
mate tubers scarcely any. Pendulous tubers poi 
