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end,) including the sheaths and petioles, they are four feet 

 high, or more ; a very faint ferruginous tinge runs down the 

 middle, which is very conspicuous in those that appear first 

 in the season ; whereas it is scarcely to be observed in the 

 latter. The ftoicers are large, few in number, with the ex- 

 terior border red, and the interior deep yellow. The bractes 

 to the fertile part of the spike ferruginous, those of the coma 

 few, and of a pretty bright crimson colour. 



8. C. rubescens. R. 



Bulbs ovate-lanceolate, and with the palmate tubers in- 

 wardly pearl-coloured. Leaves broad lanceolate, on red wing- 

 ed petioles, above the sheaths ; rib red. Scape and scales 

 red. Flowers longer than their bracte s. 



A nalive of Bengal. Flowering time the months of April 

 and May, soon after which the leaves appear ; and decay 

 about the beginning of the cool season, in November. 

 Every part has a strong, but pleasant aromatic smell when 

 bruised, particularly the root. 



Root of several, erect, solid, conical, pale straw or pearl- 

 coloured, powerfully aromatic bulbs, which gave support to 

 the former years foliage, and are strongly marked with the 

 circular scars thereof ; from their opposite sides, the scapes 

 and stems of the succeeding year spring, which form simi- 

 lar new bulbs when those of the former year decay ; but 

 during their existence, there issues round their lower half, a 

 number of strong fleshy fibers, many of which end in ovate 

 or sub-cylindrical, pale white, slightly aromatic tubers, 

 which also perish with the original parent bulb. Stems, as 

 in the other species, no other than the united sheaths of the 

 leaves, which like them, decay annually about the month of 

 October, and appear again when the flowers begin to perish 

 in April. Leaves bifcrious, (six or eight of them forming 

 the above-mentioned stems, of about three or four feet in 

 height, leaves included,) petioled on their sheathing base, 

 broad-lanceolate, cuspidate, smooth, strongly marked with 



