Curcuma. -MONANDRIA MONOGYNTA, 35 
Root consisting, like that of the other species, of bulbs, and 
palmate, pendulous tubers; aromatic, and bitter, and em- 
ployed by the Malays of Sumatra to dye with. Leaves pe- 
tioled, broad-lanceolar, smooth; from one to three feet long’; 
the petioles, and sheaths thereof about aslong. Spike central, 
large. Bractes, even those of the coma, uniformly green ; the 
ae — paler, Flowers —— mer dit poets is madd 
£6; Ch-nodeanabhleneile ip 2..N. 151. 
Bulbs conic, with pale-yellow palmate tubers, Leaves anole 
petioled, oblong. The whole plant ge rag — 
the rosy coma of the spike. 
» It grows in moist places, amongst die Oirtier mountains, 
—e time the rainy season, © Sie 
© Root perennial, consisting of conical bulbs ance in 
the remaining’ sheaths of the leaves, and also of horizontal 
tubers, asin ginger, &c. with large fleshy fibres from their 
base. Leaves radical, three or four-petioled, their petioles 
from eight to twelve inches long, enveloped in a few sheaths, 
forming something like a stem; the leaves themselves are 
oval, pointed, bedutifally ivteinand ‘smooth, from eight to 
twelve inches long, and from five to six broad. Spikes rise 
from the centre of the petioles; their peduncle is of their 
length, ‘and involved in its proper sheaths. .Bractes numer- 
ous; the inferior roundish, the superior oblong; the lower 
half of the base of the two inner are united to the margins of 
the next without, forming a sack, which contains from two to 
four flowers, each of which has a smaller wedge-formed mem- 
branaceous proper bracte.' The coma or superior bractes 
large, waved, rose-coloured, and (generally) without flowers, 
Calyx as in the two former species. T'ube of the corol widen- 
ing, somewhat campanulate; border double, Exterior 
‘three-parted ; s aiiaumaduadiaemia Anterior t pwo-l 
waved; an sda dlibtles nent e 
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