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32 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Curcuma, — 
succession. Bractes proper boat-shaped,embracing the proper _ 
perianth, and germ of each flower. Flowers large, longer _ 
than their bractes, bright yellow, expanding at sunrise, and — 
decaying at sunset of the same day. Calyx above, three- — 
‘toothed, somewhat inflated. Corol ; tube somewhat gibbous, — 
contracted at the mouth, and there shut with short hairs; _ 
‘throat campanulate ; eaterior border pale-yellow, consisting — 
of one large, vaulted, upper segment, and two lower, oblong, 
smaller, concave ones ; inner border three-parted ; lower seg- 
ment or lip with its exterior part sub orbicular emarginate, 
or bifid ; upper segments obovate, cuneate, with the filament, 
or ahve antheriferous segment, between them. Asther as 
‘in the genus, double, with a spur from the lower end of each 
lobe. Germ beneath, villous, three-celled, with many seeds 
ineach. Style slender, at its insertion are the usual twonec- — 
Regen bodies. Stigma globular, gaping on the anterior side, 
Obs. From the oval pendulous tubers, Mr. Colebrooke 
observes, a sort of starch or Arrow-root-like fecula is pre-_ 
pared, which is sold in the markets of Benares, and is eaten : 
oH om natives. * 
P ot ». a * IL Spikes ail ‘oils Be ee i : 
2. © to inp lo Wii yy. + Obs. 3.72, : 
ee Wiis’ Goblin. Suid lege Hort Vind. 3.4 
{ Manjella-kua, Rheed. Mal. 11. p. 21. ¢. 1. sind 
Careumaa of Avicemma. © 
Sans. Houridra, Huldee, Posi 
— Kramghna, Yoshitpriya, Hoviasives. tS Sepa 
