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_ proper petioles, from three'to niue; the whole measuring in general, — 
from one to two feet;-—Scape central, about sixinches long, invested — 
jm several alternate sheaths:—Spike shorter than the scape, cyliudric, 
«crowned with a tuft of loose, coloured, pale rosy, abortive, bractes.— 
2:Brudtes oblong, imbricated, the lower half of their margins united 
oto ‘the backs of the two next above, forming a pouch; for a fascicle 
sof: four'or five, rather small, yellow flowersyawhich expand in suc- 
secession; these have each a proper bracte, which embrace the tube | 
' of the flower only, and may be called an inferior calyx.—Calyx su- | 
*perior, unequally three-toothed.— Coro witha sleñder tube; its — 
: amóuth shut with-tiwéè yellow hairy glands; fair: sub-campanulate. | 
. Border double, both tliree-cleft, Xe. as in the other species.— Germ — 
oval, hairy, three-celled, with several seeds in each; attached to their ; 
. central receptacles, | 
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Bulbs oblong, and with t the palmate t es inward. ly. of a deep yel- 
low. Leaves long-petioled, broad-lanceolar. The whole Plant, (even 
S spike. and. coma) uuiformly. green. sca 
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gis native of Sumatra, and the,other eastern islands; from Bencoo- | 
len Dr. Charles. , Campbell sent plants to this garden, where they 
s: (grow luxuriantly, and blossom in July and August, a | 
azii: _Root,consisting, like that of the other species, of. bulbs; and oak 
yomateypendulous tubers 5, aromatic, and bitter, and employed by the 
i5iMalnys-of Swnatra;to dye with.— Leazes petioled, broad-lanceolar, 
sdsmooth; length-from one. to three. fests. the petioles, and sheaths - 
^ thereof. ‘about, as long.— Spike central, large.— Bractes, even those 
. oF the. coma, umieral green; ‘as iss ma et m 
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