34 MONANDRiA MONOGYNIA. Curcunta. 



proper petioles, from three to nine ; the whole measuring in general, 

 from one to two feet. — Scape central, about six inches long, invested 

 in several alternate sheaths. — Sp/Aie shorter than the scape, cylindric, 

 crowned vvith a tuft of loose, coloured, pale rosy, abortive bracies.— 

 Bractes oblong, imbricated, the lower half of their margins united 

 to .he backs of the two next above, forming a pouch, for a fascicle 

 of four or five, rather small, yellow flowery, which expand in suc- 

 cession ; these have each a proper bracte, which embrace the tube 

 of the flower only, and may be called an inferior calyx. — Calyx su- 

 perior, unequally three-toothed. — Corol with a slender tube; its 

 mouth sliut with three yellow hairy glands ; /oi^jr sub-campanulate. 

 Border double, both three-cleft, &.c. as in the other species. — Germ 

 oval, hairy, tliree-celled, with several seeds iu each attached to their 

 central receptacles. 



14. C. viridijiora. R, 



Bulbs oblong, and with the palmate tubers inwardly of a deep yel- 

 low. Leaves long-petioled, broad-lanceolar. The whole plant, (even 

 the spike and coma,) uniformly green. 



Tammon Giring seu Giri. Rumph. amb. 5. I69. 



A native of Sumatra, and the other eastern islands ; from Bencoo' 

 len Dr. Charles Campbell sent plants to this garden, where they 

 grow luxuriantly, and blossom in July and August. 



Root consisting, like that of the other species, of bulbs, and pal- 

 mate, pendulous tubers; aromatic, and bitter, and employed by the 

 Malays of Sumatra to dye with. — Leaves petioled, broad-lanceolar, 

 sm-ooth; length from one to three feet; the petioles, and sheathi 

 thereof about as long. — Spike central, large. — Bractes, even thos* 

 of the coma, uniformly green ; the latter only paler. — Flowers small, 

 ■very pale yellow. 



15. C. montana. Corom. pi. 2. N. 151. 



Bulbs conic, with pale-yellow palmate tubers. Leaves short, p«- 

 tioled, oblong. The whole plant uniformly green, except the rosy 

 coma of the spike. 



