Bs MONANDRIS MoNOGYNIA, =» Curcuma, 
end,) including the sheaths and petioles, they are four feet 
high, or more ; a very faint ferruginous tinge runs down the - 7 
* middle, ey is very conspicuous in those that appear.first 
in the season; whereas it is scarcely to be observed in the 
latter. The aeecers are large, few in number, with the ex- 
_ terior border red, and the interior deep yellow. The bractes 
to the fertile part of the spike ferruginous, those of the coma 
few, and of a pretty bright crimson colour... 
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_ Bulbs ovate-lanceolate;. and with the palmate Sadeee.3 in- 
wardly pearl-coloured. Leaves broad lanceolate, on red wing- 4 
ed petioles, above the sheaths; ; rib red, ar and scales q 
red. Flowers longer than their bractes,.. 4 
A native of Bengal, Flowering time the aad of April a 
and. May, soon after which the leaves appear ; and decay 
about the beginning of the cool season, in November. 
Every part has a strong, but pleasant aromatic smell when 
bruised, particularly the root, ‘Ge 4 
Root of several, erect, solid, conical, pale straw or pearl 7 
| coloured, powerfully aromatic bulbs, which gave supportto 
the former years foliage, and are strongly marked with the 4 
circular scars thereof ; from their opposite sides, the scapes. : 
and stems of the succeeding ‘year sprin which - free sisni - 
lar new bulbs when those of the forme : a 
during their existence, there i: issues round ax wes half, ao ; 
~number of strong fleshy fibers, many of which end in ovate 
or sub-cylindrical, pale white, slightly aromatic tubers, 
which also perish with the original parent bulb. Stems,as 
in the other species, no other than the united sheaths of the _ 
leaves, which like them, decay annually about the month of _ 
October, and appear again when thé flowers begin to perish 
in April. Leaves bifarious, (six or eight of them forming 
- the ah sve-mentioned stems, of about three or four feet in — 
height, leaves ject De peeled on their. eis pas 2 
