Curcuma. MONANDRIA MONOOYNIA. $i 



It grows in moist places, amongst the Circar mountains Flow- 

 ering time the rainy season. 



Rooi perennial, consisting of conical bulbs enveloped in the re- 

 maining sheaths of the leaves, and also of horizontal tubers, as ia 

 ginger, &c. with large tieshy fibres from their base. — Leaves radical, 

 three or four, petioled, their petioles from eight to twelve inches 

 long, enveloped in a few sheaths, forming something like a stem ; the 

 leaves themselves are oval, pointed, beautifully veined, smooth, 

 from eight to twelve inches long, and from five to six broad. — Spikes 

 rise from ihe centre of the petioles; their peduncle is of their length, 

 and involved ill its proper sheaths. — Bractes numerous ;the inferior 

 romidish, the superior oblong ; the lower half of the base of the two 

 inner are united to the. margins of the next without, formmg a sack, 

 wluch contains from two to four tiovvers, each of which has a small- 

 er wedge-formed membranaceous proper bracte. The coma or supe-, 

 rior bractes large, waved, rose-coloured, and (generally) without 

 flowers. — Calj/x as iu the two former species. — Tube of the corol 

 widening, somewhat campanulate; border double. — ExteriorXhree-* 

 parted ; dtvisiona. equal, entire. Interior two-lipped ; upper lip erect, 

 three-cleft ; under lip entire, roundish, border waved, and a little 

 notched. — Filament no other than the middle segment of the upper 

 lip of the interior border of the corol ; anther two-lobed, linear, the 

 under point of each lobe ending in a long sharp spur. — Germ be- 

 low. Base of the sfj//e embraced with the usual two nectarial bodies, 

 which in this species are larger; stigma large, globular, two-lipped, 

 somewhat marked. 



i6. C. rcclinata. R, 



Bulbs fusiform, >vith scarcely any palmate tubers, but many straw- 

 coloured, oval, pendulous ones. Leaves petiokd, oblong, reclinate. 



Discovered by H. T, Colebrooke, Esq. in the interior parts of 

 Indiuy where it blossoms during the rains. 



Root a bulbous head, from which descend many fleshy fibres,; 

 «nding in large, smooth, oval tubers. — Stem none, but the height ojf, 



£2 



