X46 HEXAMDRIA MONOGYNIA. CurCuUgO. 



short tube of the corol. Anthers linear, erect, adhering 

 to each other as in the syngenesious tribe. Germ obo- 

 vate, hairy, three-celled, with many ovula in each, at- 

 tached to the axis. *Sfi/Ze longer than the stamens. Stigma 

 dilated, subtrilobate. Capsule berried, inferior, ovate, 

 the size of a large pea, soft, and clothed with hairs, not 

 opening, three-celled with several seeds in each, arranged 

 in two or three vertical rows, and attached to the axis. 

 Seeds round, the size of a small grain of black pepper, and 

 like it black, and wrinkled. Integuments two ; exterior 

 hard, thick, red, and brittle ; inner, a brown membranace- 

 ous crust. Perisperm conform to the seed, cartilaginous, 

 pale blue. Embryo simple, cylindric, straight, penetrat- 

 ing from the umbilicus more than half through the peris- 

 perm, (centripetal.) 



3. C sumatrana. R. 



ieaiJCs broad-lanceolar, plaited. ^Sp/Are half hid in the 

 earth. Coro^ pedicelled. . Stigma three-lobed. 



Involucrum. Rumph. Anib. (j. 114. t. 53. 



A native of the mountains of Sumatra, and from thence 

 sent by Dr. Campbell to this Garden in 1800, where it 

 blossoms in March and April. 



Root stoloniferous, perennial. Stem none. Leaves radi- 

 cal, few, petioled, lanceolar, recurved, plaited, above 

 smooth, somewhat woody underneath, entire, about 

 nine inches long, and about three broad. Petioles deep- 

 ly channelled, from three to four inches long, smooth. 

 Spikes strobiliforra, mostly hid in the earth, the points of 

 the bractes, and flowers only are visible- Bractes ovate- 

 lanceolate, hairy, one-flowered, shorter than the pedicels 

 of the corols. Flowers yellow, the lower hermaphrodite, 

 while those that occupy the crown of the spike, and of 

 course expand last, are generally male. Calyx none. 

 Corol flat, elevated above the germ, on an erect, hairy 

 columnar pedicel j segments six, lanceolate, united at the 



