20 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ClirCUma. 



ers expand in succession, all pure white except the purple 

 lip. Corol nearly as in rotunda and angustifolia, the upper 

 two segments of the inner border are obtusely lanceolate, as 

 in the latter: the lip or nectarium of a deep variegated pur- 

 ple colour, the shape cuneate-obcordate, and divided from 

 the apex nearly half the length into two long emarginate 

 lobes. Filament short. Anther two-lobed, and crowned 

 with a large, laciniate, erect, white crest. Germ three-celled, 

 &e. as in the genus. 



CURCUMA. Linn. gen. pi. eel. Schrcb. No. 8. 



Corolla with both borders three-parted. Anther double, 

 base bicalcarate. Capsule three-celled ; seed numerous, aril- 

 led. Embryo simple, and furnished with both periderm 

 and vitellus. 



SECT. I. Spikes lateral. 

 1. C. Zerumbet. Ro.rb. Ind. pi. 3. N. 201. 

 Bulbs and palmate tubers pale straw -coloured through- 

 out. Leaves green, petioled, broad-lanceolar, a dark purple 

 cloud down the middle. Flowers shorter than their bractes. 

 Sans. Shwtee, Giindha-moolee, Shud-grunthhika, Kwrvoo- 

 ra, Kwrchoora, and P?/lasha. 

 Hind, and Teling. Kuchoora. 

 Beng. Slw/thee, Kuchoora. 

 Pers. Zerombad. 



Kua. Rheed. Mai. vol.U.p. 13. t. 7. 

 Zemmbed. Rnmph. Amb. 5. p. 168. t. 68. 

 Amoinum Zerumbeih. Ken. in Rctz. Obs. 3. 55. 

 Zerumbet, or Cachora of Garcias. 



The plants from which the following description was taken, 

 were sent by Dr. F. Buchanan, from Cliittagong, where they 

 are indigenous, to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, in 1798, 

 where they grow freely, and blossom in the month of April. 



