Curcuma. monandria monogynia. 23 



Imig as the seed, tending to be clavate, both ends truncate, the up- 

 per half lodged In the vitellus, and the lower in the albumen, or pe- 

 risperm. 



Obs. The dry root powdered and mixed with the powdered wood 

 of tlie Casalpinia Sappan makes the red powder called Abeer hy the 

 Hindoos, and Pkag by the Bengalees. It is copiously thrown about 

 by the natives during the Hooli, or Hindoo holida\ s m the month of 

 March. The root is also used medicinally amongst the natives. 



In 1805, I gave someof the sliced and dried bulbous, and palmate 

 tuberous roots of this plant to Sir Joseph Banks, which he gave to 

 Dr. Comb, who found that it was the real Zedoaria of our Materia 

 Medica, and by the same means ascertained that the root of my Cur- 

 cuma Zedoaria, is Zedoaria rotunda of the shops. 



2. C. Zedoaria. R. 



Bulbs small, and, with the long palmate tubers, inwardly yellow. 

 Leaves broad-lanceolar, sessile on their sheaths, sericeous under- 

 neath ; the whole plant of a uniform green. 



Amomum Zedoaria. Linn. sp. jilant. ed. Willd. \. p. 7- 



Sans. WS^fK'^l, VMna-hi/redra, ^T^% Shclee, ^^Uf^^T, Vwna- 

 rista, ^ifc^^T, Sholika. 



Beno-. Junglee, or B««i Huldi, (wild turmerick.) 



Arab. Jedwar, or Zadwar. 



This beautiful species is a native, not only of Bengal, (and com- 

 mon in gardens about Calcutta,) but is also a native of China, and 

 various other parts of Asia, and the Asiatic islands. Flowerinof 



time the hot season, the leaves appear about the same period, or 

 rather after ; for it is not unconunon to find the beautiful, large, rosy, 

 tufted spikes rising from the naked earth before a single leaf is to 

 be seen. 



Hoot biennial, tuberous, &c. as in the last, and inwardly of a pret- 

 ty deep yellow colour, approachmg to that of turmeric. — Stem no 

 other than the sheaths of the leaves. — Leaves petioled, broad-lance- 

 olar; entire, underneath covered with soft sericeous down, which is 



