32 MONANDRIA MOXOGTYNIA. Curcuma — 
and two lower, oblong, smaller, concave ones; inner border tbree- 
parted ;, lower segment or lip with its exterior part sub-orbicular 
emarginate, or bifid; upper segments obovate, cuneate, with the fia» — 
ment, or short antheriferous segment, between them.—Anther as — 
in the genus, double, with a spur from the lower end of each lobe, 
—-Germ beneath, villous, three-celled, with many seeds m each. 
Style slender, at its insertion are the usual twonectarial bodies. Stigma 
globular, gaping on the anterior side. : 
Obs. From the oval pendulous tubers, Mr. Colebrooke observes, a 
sort of Starch or Arrow-root-like fecula is prepared, which i is solda in 
the markets of Benares, and is eaten by the natives. 
Sect. 2, Spikes central. 
C. bnga. Linn. sp. pÉ ed. Willd. 1. 14. Retz. i 3. 78. 
Bull small, aud with the numerous, long, palmate tubers, inward- 
ly a a deep. orange yellow. Leaves long-petioled, broad-lanceolar, 
; of an uniform green. 
Amomum Curcuma. Gmelin. and Jacq. Hort. Vind. 3. t. 4 
Manjella-kua. Rheed. mal. 11. p. 91. t. 11. 
. Curcuma domestica major. Rumph. amb. 5. . p. 162. t. 67. 
Carcumaa of Avicenna. 
Dar-zard of Garcias. 
Sans. zt, Huridra, wac, Huldee, way Peeta, dt 7 
— Kanchunee, fax, Nisha, qgan, Vuruvurninee, eeu, Kri- a 
mighna, acfafgar, Yoshitpriya, girante, Henson. T 
Hind. and Beng. Huldee, Huludee, Pit-ras. 
Heb. 23293. Kurkum. 
Arab. Ürukus-sufr, ar 
Teling. Pampee. 
Pers. 3>4);, Zerd-chob. 
Hulud, or Huludee. Mahrat. — — : 
]s much cultivated about no and in al parts of Bengal. 
Koenig's description published by Retzius, is so very exact and com- 
plete, that there AND me e to add. 
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