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are of a pale yellow colour ; and possess at all times an agreeable 

 iiagraut smell, and warm, bitterish, aromatic taste, whereas the roots 

 of Kcsmpferia rotunda possess little or nothing of these sensible qua- 

 lities, and are withal too rare in every part of India, where I have 

 been, to allow me to think, any quantity of them can ever be collected 

 for exportation. 



3. C. zanthorrhiza. R. 



Bulbs ovate, with both palmate and pendulous tubers deep yellow. 

 Leaves sessile on their green sheaths, broad lanceolar, a permanent 

 purple cloud down the middle. 



From Amhoyna, this remarkable species was brought to the Bo- 

 tanic Garden at Calcutta, in the year 1798, and only flowered for 

 the jfirst time in April and May, 1810. It is the only kind I have 

 yet met with, which has its pendulous tubers inwardly of a deep yel- 

 low colour, like that of the bulb and palmate tubers. The sheaths 

 of the scapes and leaves are green. The coma large, and of a deep 

 purple, or crimson colour. Exterior border of the corol red. Ideates 

 broad-lanceolar, and oblong ; there is a narrow purple cloud down the 

 middle of them, which penetrates to the underside ; the whole height 

 about four feet. 



4. C. elata. R. 



Bulbs oblong, obovate, and with the numerous, large, incurvate, 

 palmate tubers, inwardly of a pale yellow. Leaves sessile on their 

 sheaths, oblong, villous underneath; the whole of an uniform green. 



A native of Burma, and from thence introduced by Dr. W. Carey, 

 into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it flowers in March and 

 April. 



A full description of this species is unnecessary, as it resembles 

 the other species already described, in every respect, except in such 

 as are pointed out in the definition, viz. its immensely large and 

 numerous bulbs and tubers, which are inwardly of a pale yellow co- 

 lour ; the latter run very near the surface of the ground, and are much 



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