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before the leaves, about as long as their scapes, together 

 about a foot long. Scales, lower fertile ; trades green, with 

 a ferruginous tinge. Coma deep bright red, tending to crim- 

 son. Corol; exterior border red ; inner yellow. 



6. C. ceruginosa. R. 



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

 wardly seruginous. Leaves petioled, broad-lanceolar, smooth, 

 above the middle a faint ferruginous, evanescent cloud on 

 the upper surface only ; every other part green. 



A very stately species, introduced from Burma by the Rev. 

 Dr. W. Carey, into Bengal, where it blossoms in May, im- 

 mediately after which the leaves begin to appear. It is dis- 

 tinguished from all our other Curcumas by the internal eeru- 

 ginous, or verdigrease-like colour of its ovate bulbs, and its 

 short thick palmate tubers; while the oval pendulous tubers, 

 with which it abounds, are inwardly of a clear pale pearl 

 colour. The comose lateral spike is in this, as it is in the other 

 species. The exterior border of the corol is rose-coloured; 

 the interior deep yellow. The leaves are broad-lanceolar, 

 of a firm texture, and smooth on both sides; from two to 

 three feet long, and from six to nine inches broad. Petioles 

 and their sheathing portions together from two to three 

 feet long ; which gives to the whole plant a height of from 

 four to six feet. 



7. C.Jerruginea. R. 



Bulbs and palmate tubers copious, inwardly pale yellow. 

 Sheaths of the scapes, and leaves ferruginous-red, with a faint 

 mark of the same colour on the middle of the upper surface 

 of the leaves. 



A native of Bengal. Flowers in A pril and May. By at- 

 tending to the pale yellow very fragrant roots, and to the 

 rusty reddish sheaths of the scapes and leaves, this species 

 will be readily known. The leaves, as in most of the others, 

 are broad-lanceolar, (that is, they taper equally toward each 



