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41. The synonym given by Eumphius is " Soneoriis."* The 

 Sanskrit name quoted by Eoxburgh for it, is " Chandra-moolika," 

 and the Bengalee " Chnndra-moola or Ivumula." It is said to be 

 very common in the mountainous districts beyond Chittagong, and 

 is cultivated by the natives, who bring down the roots to the 

 market in Bengal under the name Kumula or Kamala. The roots 

 are biennial, tuberous, w^ith Heshy fibres from the tubers. The 

 leaves are radical, petioled, spreading flat on the surface of the 

 earth, round ovate-cordate, between acute and obtuse, their margins 

 membranous and waved, smooth and of a deep green on the upper 

 surface, somewhat woollv beneath, and streaked lencrthwavs with 

 ten or twelve slender lines. The petioles are hidden in the earth, 

 or rather are only cylindric sheaths embracing those within and 

 the fascicle of flowers. The flowers are in small fascicles of 6 to 

 12 within the sheaths of the leaves, expanding in succession ; pure 

 pellucid white, except a purple spot on the centre of each of the 

 divisions of the inner border or lip. There are three bractes to 

 each flower, a larger exterior one and two within the sides ; all are 

 linear, acute, membranous, and half the length of the tube of the 

 corolla. The calvx is the lencrth of the bractes. The tube is Ions; 

 and filiform. The border of the corolla is double and three-parted ; 

 the exterior divisions linear and acute ; the upper two divisions of 

 the interior are ovate and erect, the under one expanding, two- 

 parted, with lobes bifid. The short filament is two-parted at the 

 apex and re-curved. The anther is replete with white pollen, 

 crowned with a bidentate crest or continuation of the filament 

 above the anther. The stigma is funnel-shaped. Konig states the 

 nectarial filaments to be two in number, filiform, erect and rather 

 long, embracing the lower part of the style. 



Konnpferict rotunda, Linn,-]- described by Yan Eheed as Malan- 

 Kua,§ and known in Bengalee and Hindee as Bhu-Champa and 

 Bhu-Champaca,:|: is referred to in the 1st series, p. 12G. Its 

 biennial, tuberous root was long erroneously supposed to yield 

 Zedoary. It is extensively cultivated in gardens in various parts 

 of India, on account of the beautv and fragjrance of its verv largre 



* Amb., V. p. 173, t. 69 f. 2. 



t Sp. PI. Ed. Willd., i. p. 15. 



: Hort. Mai., xi. p. 17 t. 9. 



§ As. Kes., iv. p. 242, and xi. p. 328. 



