Curcumce, monanbria monogtniA. • 1/ 



wliole lieic^'it of the plant about four feet. — Spikes lateral, appearing 

 with, or rather before the leaves, about as long as their scapes, toge- 

 't'.ier about a foot long. Scales, lower fertile ; bractes green, wilh a fer- 

 4-ugaious tinge. Co.iia deep bright red, tenduig to crimson.— CVo/, 

 e.vterior border red; inner yellow. 



6. C. arugifiosa. R. 



Bulbs ovate, and with the numerous palmate tubers, mwardly 

 seruginous. Leaves petloled, b road-lane eolar, smooth, above the 

 middle a faint ferrughious evanescent cloud on the upper surface on- 

 ly ; every other part green. 



A very stately specie:?, introduced from Burma by the Rev. Dr. W. 

 Carey, into Bengal, where it blossoms in May, immediately after which 

 the leaves begin to appear. It is distinguished from all our other 

 Curcumashji\iQ internal seruginous, or verdigrease-like colour of ita 

 ovate bulbs, audits short thick palmate (f«6g;s; while th^ oval pendu- 

 lous tubers, with which it abounds, are inwardly of a c^ear pale pfarl 

 colour. The comose lateral spike is in tiiis, as it is in the other spe- 

 cies. The exterior border of the corol is rose-coloured ; the interior 

 deep yellow. The leaves are broad-lanceolar, of a firm texture, and 

 smooth on both sides ; length from two to three feet, and from six to 

 nine inches broad. Petioles and their sheathing portions together 

 from two to three feet long ; which gives to the whole plant a height 

 of from four to six feet. 



7. C fenugi/iea. R. 



Bulbs and palmate tubers copious, inwardly pale yellow. Sheaths 

 of the scape-, and leaves ferruginous-red, with a faint mark of the 

 same colour on the middle of the upper surface of the leaves. 



A native of Bengal. Flo\veV:3 in April and May. By attending 

 to the pale yellow very fr;io;rant roots, and to the rusty reddish sheaths 

 of the scapes and leaves, this species will be readily known. The 

 leaves, as in most of the ojjaers, .are broad-lanceolar, (thait is, they taper 

 eijually toward each end ;) iuciudiug the sheaths and petioles, they 

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