Curcuma, monandria monogynja. S3 



Arab. Urukus-sufr, Urukus-saboghin. 



Telmg. Pa m pee. 



Pers. Zerd-chob. 



Hu\ud, or Huhidee. Mahrat. 



Is much cultivated about Calcutta, and in all parts of 

 Bengal. Konig's description published by Retzius, is so 

 very exact and complete, that there is nothing left for me to 

 add. 



Cultivation, 



The ground must be rich, friable, and so high as not to be 

 overflowed during the rainy season, such as the Bengalees 

 about Calcutta call Danga. It is often planted on land 

 where sugar-cane grew the preceding year, and is deemed a 

 meliorating- crop. The soil must be well ploughed and clear- 

 ed of weeds, &c. It is then raised in April and May, ac- 

 cording as the rains begin to fall, into ridges, nine or ten 

 inches high, and eighteen or twenty broad, with intervening 

 trenches nine or ten inches broad. The cuttings or sets, viz. 

 small portions of the fresh root, are planted on the tops of the 

 ridges, at about eighteen inches, or two feet asunder. One 

 acre requires about from nine hundred such sets, and yields in 

 December and January, about two thousand pounds weight 

 of the fresh root. 



13. C. Amada. R. 



Bulbs conic, and with the palmate tubers, inwardly pale- 

 yellow. Leaves long-petioled, broad lanceolate- smooth. 

 Spikes scanty, few-flowered. The whole plant uniformly 

 green. 



Amada of the Bengalees, which means mango-ginger, the 

 fresh root possessing the peculiar smell of a green mango. It 

 is used medicinally by the natives. It is a native of Bengal. 

 Flowering tune the latter part of the rains. 



Root consisting of horizontal, palmate, sessile tubers united 

 to the sides of an ovate-conic bulb of the same colour, which 

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