Curcuma. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. O7° 
before the leaves, about as long as their scapes, ‘together ’ 
- about a foot long. ‘Scales, lower fertile ; bractes green, with’ 
a ferruginous tinge. ‘Coma deep bright red, tending tocrim- — 
Bc Corel exterior border red ; inner =. 
6 C. @eruginosa, R. R. 
‘Bulbs ovate, and with the numerous Ivotinnee tubers, in- ’ 
‘wardly eruginous. -Leaves petioled, broad-lancéolar; smooth, 
above the middle a faint ferruginous, evanescent cloud ¢ on 
the upper surface only ; every other part green. 
~A very stately species, troduced from Burma by the Siar. 
Dr. W. Carey, into Bengal, where it blossoms in May, im- ~ 
mediately after which the leaves begin to appear. . It is dis- > 
tinguished from all our other Cureumas by the internal eru-: 
ginous, or verdigrease-like colour of its ovate budbs, and its 
short thick palmate tubers; while the oval pendulous tubers, « 
with which it abounds, are inwardly: of a clear pale pearl 
colour. The comose lateral spike is in this, as it iS in the other! 
species. The exterior border of the corol is rose-coloured ; 
the: interior deep’ lorie The eae. Hanceol 
neil hi peportions Rlogether from ‘two. to eek 
»; which gives to the whole Fees: a la of from - 
four to'six feeter: iat! » aeetiknoadaered id open: rel 
% C afierudndn R.. : 
_ Bulbs and palmate thers copious, ieeeadie de wilens 
Sheaths of the scapes, and lea ves ferruginous-red, with a faint, 
mark of. ‘the same colour on the middle MRP inert 
of the leaves.) \, — sw sicsiueaal 
psetns Yererit [Hoar in Api and Ma. _ By at-> 
3 w leas maa ofthe others,’ 
are brou-anceolr, Teeth Isy they taper equally tovand-aae L oo 
