Curcuma. monandria monogtnia. $i 



;rfeet. Spikes lateral, the inferior fertile portion not lono-er than 

 the rosy coma. Flowers the length of the bractes ; exterior bolder 

 slight! V tinged with pmk j inker yellow. In the structu. e u. the fruit 

 i: agrees perfectly with that of C. Zerumbet. 



11. C. angustifolia. R. 



Bulb oblong, with pale, oblong, pendulous tubers only. Leaves 

 petioled, narrow-lanceolar. Flowers longer than the bractes. 

 Tikor of the Hindoos. 



round by H. T. Colebrooke, Esq. in the forests from the banks 

 of the ^Hona to Nagpore, and by him introduced into the Botanic Gar- 

 den at Calcutta, where it blossoms in July. The leaves make their 

 appearance at the same time with those of the other species, and 

 decay about the' beginning of the cool season, in November. 



Hoot, from a fusiform biennial crown issue many fleshy ftbres, 

 which end in smooth, oval, sucrulent tubers, — Stem, consisting of 

 a few pale-coloured, leafless, surrounding sheaths. — Leaves petiol- 

 ed, narrow-lanceolar, most acute, striated with fine parallel veins, 

 smooth on both sides ; length from one to three feet, (petiole and 



sheath included,) which is in fact the whole height of the plant. 



Petioles from six to twelve inches long, the lower half or more of 

 which, expands into a sheath to embrace those within ; the upper 

 half or proper petioles slender, and channelled. — 6)9iA;e radical, from 

 four to six inches long, separate from the leaves, crowned with a 

 tuft of oval, lively purpie, neuter bractes. — Bractes common below 

 the coloured neuter ones, ovate-cordate, obtuse, expanding recurv- 

 edly, each embracing three or four flowers, which open in suc- 

 cession. — Bractes proper boat-shaped, embracing the proper pe- 

 rianth, and germ of each flower. — Flowers large, longer than their 

 bractes, bright yellow, expanding at sun-rise, and decaying at sun- 

 set of the same day. — Calyx above, three-toothed, somewhat in- 

 flated. — Corol, tube somewhat gibbous; contracted at the mouth, 

 and there shut with short hairs ; throat campanulate ; exterior bor- 

 der pale-yellow, consisting of oue large, vaulted, upper segment. 



