3*2 MOXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CuiCHtna. 



succession. Bractesproper 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; exterior 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 short antheriferous segment, between them. Anther as 

 in the genus, double, with a spur from the lower end of each 

 lobe. Germ beneath, villous, three-celled, with many seeds 

 in each. Style slender, at its insertion are the usual two uec- 

 tarial bodies. Stigma globular, gaping on the anterior side. 

 Ohs. From the oval pendulous tubers, 3Ir. Colebrooke 

 observes, a sort of starch or Arrow root-like J '<■<■>/ la is pre- 

 pared, vi hit h is sold in the markets of Benares, and is eat* n 

 by the native-. 



SECT. II. Spikes c en Ira I. 



12. C. longa. Linn. sp. pi. ed. WUldAAA. Retz. Obs. :*.72. 



Bulbs small, and with the numerous, long, palmate tubers, 

 inwaidly of a deep orange yellow. Leaves long-petioled, 

 broad-lanceolar, of an uniform o-reeu. 



Amoioiiiii Curcuma. Gmelin. and J acq. Hort. Vinci. 3. £.4. 



Manjella-kua. Rhced. Mai. 11. /;. 21. t. 11. 



Curcuma domestica major. Rumph. Amb. 5./). 162. t. 37. 



Carcumaa of Avicenna. 



Dar-zard of Garcias. 



Sans. Hi/ridra, Hwldee, Peeta, Kanch?/nee, N?sha, Yimt- 

 v?/rn?nee, Krim/ghna, Yosh?tpriya, IWiv/Iasmee. 



Hind, and Beng. H?ddee, H?d«dee. Pit-ras. 



Heb, Kurkum. 



