so MON.VNDRIA MONOGYNIA. Curcuma, 



^ ed to the bulb by uncommonly long, thick, fibrous cords^ — Leaves 

 ■ 'bifarious, petioled on their sheaths, lanceolar, smooth, and green ui 

 every psi% eiicept in those which appear first m the season, which 

 have a faint ferruginous cloud on the centre of the upper surface be- 

 yond the middle ; length two to three feet ; the petioles with their 

 sheathing bases measuring about as much more, making the whole 

 height of ihe plant five or six feet, — Spikes lateral, appeajing rath< i 

 before the leaves, short-scaped, large, clavate. Fertile Oi actcs, of a 

 beautiful pale pink. Barren ones of the coma a deep, lively, rosy red ; 

 on account of the beauty and size of this part, 1 have given it the 

 trivial name comosa. — Carol with the exterior border piukj inner 

 pale yellow. 



10. C. leiicorrhiza. R. 



Bulbs ovate ; palmate tubers long and far-spreading, like the for- 

 mer tney are inwardly of a pale straw colour. Leaves petioled, 



broad-lanceolar, smooth, of an uniform green in every part. Spikes 

 few-flowered, with a coma as long as the fertile portion. 



A native of the forests of Bahar. From Bhagu/pore Mr. John 

 Glass, the surgeon of that station, sent roots to this Garden, under 

 the name Tikor; and observed that the plant is not cultivated, but 

 grows in the jungles, to the southward of that place. The proces:>, 

 he says, for obtaining the starchy substance called Tikoi-, is as fol- 

 lows. " The root is dug up, ,and rubbed on a stone, or beat in a 

 mortar, and afterwards rubbed in Mater with the hand, and strained 

 through a cloth ; the fecula having subsided, the water is poured off, 

 and the Tikor, (fecula,) dried for use." 



This plant grows freely in the Botanic Garden, and flowers in 

 May. Here the palmate, or horizontal tubers, are particularly 

 straight, and often near a foot ]qn^lJjMiey run deep in the earth, and 

 far. Their inward colour, as j|| BP re that of the bulbs, is a very pale 

 ochraceous yellow, almost ujjjpPvvhite. Pendulous tubers numerous, 

 oblong, inwardly pearL^PreT Lea'':es broad-lanceolar, uniformly 

 green, about two feeSKg j whole height of the plant from three to 



