34 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ClUCUina. 



gives existence and support to the leaves, and spike ; from 

 its sides and base long fleshy fibres issue, which penetrate 

 deep into the soil; some of which end in oblong, paler (pen- 

 dulous) tubers. Stems no other than the united sheathe of 

 the leaves. Leaves radical, hilarious, petioled above their 

 sheaths, ventricose, lanceolar, cuspidate, smooth on both sides ; 

 from six to eighteen inches long, by three to six broad; 

 they decay about the end of October, and appear again 

 with the first showers of April or May. The petioles I divide 

 into two portions: the Iowa or sheathing part from six to 

 twelve inches long; and the upper or proper petioles, from 

 time to nine; the whole measuring in general, from one to 

 two feet Scape central, about six inches long, invested in 

 several alternate sheaths. Spike shorter than the scape, cy- 

 lindric, crowned with a tuft of loose, coloured, pale rosy, 

 abortive bractes, Bractes oblong, imbricated, the lower 

 half of their margins united to the backs of the two next 

 above, forming a pouch, for a fascicle of four or five, rather 

 small, yellow flowers, which expand in succession 5 these have 

 each a proper bracte, which embraces the tube of the flower 

 only, and ma} be called an inferior calyx. Calyx superior, 

 unequally three-toothed. Carol \\ith a slender tube ; its 

 mouth shut with three yellow hairy glands; faux sub-cam* 

 panulate. Border double, both three-cleft, &.c. as in the other 

 species. Germ oval, hairy v three-celled, with several seeds in 

 each attached to their central receptacles. 



14. C. riridiffom. R. 



Bulbs oblong, and with the palmate tubers inwardly of a 

 deep yellow. Leave* long-petioled, broad-lanceolar. The 

 whole plant, (even the spike and coma,) uniformly green. 



Tammon Giring sen Giri. Rumph. Amb. 5. 169. 



A native of Sumatra, and the other eastern islands;' from 

 Bencoolen Dr. Charles Campbell sent plants to this garden, 

 where they grow luxuriantly, and blossom in July and Au- 

 gust. 



