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allow me to think, any quantity of them can ever be collect- 

 ed for exportation. 



3. C. zantlwrrhiza. R. 



Bulbs ovate, with both plamate and pendulous tubers 

 deep yellow. Leaves sessile on their green sheaths, broad lan- 

 ceolar, a permanent purple cloud down the middle. 



From Amboyna, this remarkable species was brought to 

 the Botanic garden at Calcutta, in the year 1798, and only 

 flowered for the first time in April and May, 1810. It is the 

 only kind I have yet met with, which has its pendulous tu- 

 bers inwardly of a deep yellow colour, like that of the bulb 

 and palmate tubers. The sheaths of the scapes and leaves 

 are green. The coma large, and of a deep purple, or crimson 

 colour. Exterior border of the corol red. Leaves broad-lan- 

 ceolar and oblong ; there is a narrow purple cloud down 

 the middle of them, which penetrates to the underside; the 

 whole height about four feet. 



4. C. elata. R. 



Bulbs oblong, obovate, and with the numerous, large, in- 

 curvate, palmate tubers, inwardly of a pale yellow. Leaves 

 sessile on their sheaths, oblong, villous underneath; the 

 whole of an uniform green. 



A native of Burma, and from thence introduced by Dr. 

 W. Carey, into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it 

 flowers in March and April. 



A full description of this species is unnecessary, as it re- 

 sembles the other species already described, in every respect, 

 except, in such as are pointed out in the definition, viz. its 

 immensely large and numerous bulbs and tubers, which are 

 inwardly of a pale yellow colour; the latter run very near 

 the surface of the ground, and are much incurved. The pen- 

 dulous tubers, as in every other species, except C. zanthor- 

 rliiza, are inwardly pearl-coloured; every part above ground 

 is of a uniform green, the spikes excepted. The leaves ap- 



