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allow me to think, any quantity Of he SE RIAN ee 
ed for exportation. 9 
2B. C. aasaheuahings R ' 
Bulbs ovate, with both pict a Seudelas aber 
! deep yellow. Leaves sessile on their green sheaths, he catia 
ceolar, a permanent purple cloud down the middle... 
From Amboyna, this remarkable species was. eahiliae 
the Botanic garden at Calcutta, in the year 1798, and only 
flowered for the first time in April and May, 1810. It is the 
only kind I have yet met with, which has its pendulous tu- 
bers: inwardly of a deep yellow colour, like that of the bulb 
and . palmate tubers. The sheaths of the scapes and leaves 
aregreen. The coma large, and of a deep purple, or crimson 
colour. Exierior border of the corol red, Leaves broad-lan- 
ceolar and oblong; there is a narrow purple cloud down 
the middle of them, which penetrates:to. the ines side; te 
whole height about four feet. as 
. A Cc. elata. Bis : = 
» Bulbs, oblong, obovate,, and vehaete jeiioerons, Or in- 
‘ y of a pale yellow, Leaves 
ee an uniform green, 
A native of Burma, and from. ‘scape tania i by Dr. 
W. Carey, into. the. Botanie garden. at Calcutta, where it 
flowers in March and April. 
A-full, dice diate ees aes tao asitre. » 
sembles the other species already described, in.every respect, 
except, in such as are pointed out in the definition, viz. its 
immensely. large and numerous bulbs and tubers, which are 
inwardly of a pale yellow colour; the latter run very near 
pa ms and. afgmch inti “sie 
ee sheaths, a , oblong, villous underneaaies othe 
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