20 MONANDRIA MONOGYNTA, Curcuma. 
&® expand in succéssion, all pure white except the purple 
lip. Corol nearly as in rotunda and angustifolia, the upper 
two segments of the inner border are obtusely lanceolate, as 
in the latter: the lip or nectarium of a deep variegated pur- 
‘Ple ‘colour, the shape cuneate-obcordate, and divided from 
the apex nearly half the length into two long emarginate 
lobes, Filament short. Anther two-lobed, and crowned 
with a large, laciniate, erect, white crest. — three-celled, 
&e. ——— coma i 
rctETS ect, cer ate ae 
x 
sateen, oi Pye | igi F OG See i Lg meer 
i aieneied Linn. gen. plied. Schreb. No. 8. 
» Corolla with both borders threé-parted. Anther sue . 
base bicalearate. Capsiile thiee-celled } eed mitiierous, aril. 
ted. Embryo a and furnished ‘with Botti” eris 
‘tea vacate | ait Pet ; 
" SECT. I. Spikes lateral. 
~1.C. Zerumbet. Roxb. Ind. pl. 3. N. 201. ack 
Bulbs and palmate tubers pale straw-colouret — 
oat Eecaves green, “petioled, broad-lanceolar, a dark purple 
cloud down the middle, Flowers shorter than their bractes, 
‘Sans, Shutee, Gandha-moolee, Sha 
ra, Kurchoora, and Pulasha, 9 
- Hind,and Teling. Kuchoora, 
— — — ein aameeuae | oe os tL 
Ko. Reet, Mal, vol. V1. ph 138. #72 
~Zerambetl. Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 168, t. 68." 7 
--Amomum Zerwmbeth, Kon: in Retz. Ob 3.58 ais 
‘Zerumbet, or Cachora of Garcias, © eau 
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