Curcuma. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ess 
It grows in moist places, — the * Circar mountain. SFA- 
ering time the rainy season. ~~ NUM en 
Root pereunial, consisting of conical bulbs di lage in the re- 
maining sheaths of the leaves, and ‘also of horizontal tubers, ' as in 
ginger, &c. with large fleshy fibres from their base:-— Leaves radical, 
three or four, petioled, their petioles from eight to twelve "itichés 
long, enveloped ima few sheaths, forming something like a stein ; the 
leaves themselves are oval, pointed, beautifully veined, sinooth, 
from eight to twelve incheslong, and from five to six broad.— Spikes 
rise from tlie centre of the petioles: parpi: is of their length, 
and involved in its proper she | ous Profane’ 
ronis opes -obl m ow + half v t d 
inner are united to the bir eiit the next withot 
which contains from two to four flowers, each of mielan PaA 
er wedge-formed membranaceous proper bracte. "l'hé coma or supe- 
rior bractes large, waved, rose-coloured, and (generally). without 
flowers.—Calyr as in the two former species:+ T'ube- of the corol 
widening, somewhat campanulate; border double: =~Exterior threes 
parted ; divisions equal, entire. Interior two-lipped } upper lip erect, 
three-cleft ; under lip entire, roundish, border’ “waved,” and a hit 
notched. mu no other than the middle segment of the upper 
"x lip of the interior border of the corol ; ; anther two-lobed, linear, the 
under point of. each lobe ending. in a long. sharp. spur. gi ji 
low. Base of the style embraced with. the usual two "nectarial bodies, 
which in this species are larger; 3 stigma, se fes is x d 
somewhat marked. ae 
5:36. Œ retlikate. Rises wee! cen Se eA s evitan. ds - 
Bulbs fusiform, with E E A distri 
casă; oval, pendulous ones. Leaves petioled, oblong, reclinate. 
~ Discovered by H. T. Colebrooke; Esq. in the interior parfsof — 
India, where it blossoms during the rains. sipinos =i ni apt. 
"Root a bulbous head, from which descend many fleshy "fibresg - 
ending in large, smooth, oval tubers.—Stem none, but: the height of 
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