30 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. - . Curcumas 
ed to the bulb by uncommonly long, thick, fibrous cords.— Leaves 
bifarious, petioled on their sheaths, }.aceolar, smooth, and green in 
every part, except in those which <ppear first in the season, which 
have a faint ferruginous cloud on the centre of the upper surface be- 
. yond the middle; length two to three feet; the petioles with their 
sheathing. bases measuring about as much more, making the whole 
height of the plant five or six feet.—Spikes lateral, appearing rather 
` before the leaves, short-scaped, large, clavate. Fertile bractes, of a 
beautiful pale pink. Barren ones of the coma a deep, lively, rosy red; 
on account of the beauty and size of this part, I have given it the 
trivial name comosa.—Corol with the exterior border pink; inner 
pale yellow. 
10. C. leucorrhiza. R. 
Bulbs ovate ; palmate | tubers. long and Sein, oc. the for- 
mer they are "oid of a pale straw colour. Leaves petioled, 
broad-lanceolar, ‘smooth, of an uniform. green in every part. Spikes 
few-flowered, with a coma as long as the fertile portion. | 
` Å native of the forests of Bahar. From Bhagulpore Mr. John 
Glass, the surgeon of that station, sent roots to this Garden, under 
the name Tikor; and observed that the plant is not cultivated, but 
grows in the jungles, to the southward of that place. The process, 
he says, for obtaining the starchy substance called Tikor, i is as fol- 
lows. “ The root is dug up, and rubbed on a stone, or beat in a 
mortar, and afterwards rubbed in water with the hand, and strained 
through a cloth ; the fecula having subsided, the water is go =: | 
and the Tikor, (fecula) dried for use.” 
© This plant grows freely in the Botanic Garden 
May. Here the palmate, or horizontal tube 
straight, and often near a foot long ; they run dec 
far. Their inward colour, as well as that of the bulbs, i is a very pale 
ochraceous yellow, almost pure white. Pendulous tubers numerous, 
oblong, inwardly pearl white. - - Leares broad-lanceolar, uniformly 
cem about two be | s gp viisi ana of the james from Hra to 
