No. 443. 
CURCULIGO SUMATRANA. 
Class. Order. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 
This species is the C. sumatrana of the 
Hortus bengalensis, in which valuable work 
it is referred to Rumph’s figure 53, vol. vi. 
which is a very good reduced representation 
of it. In the Kew catalogue this figure is 
quoted to C. latifolia, which we also possess, 
and which is a different sort. 
Our plant is a native of Sumatra, as its 
name denotes: its blossoms come out in al- 
most sessile heads, composed of a great 
number of flowers, which open in succession 
four or Pi at a time: the plant is three 
feet high. 
ki is necessary to a it EIERN in 
the stove, 
by offsets, which come out very ur 
The soil should be loam and sandy peat. 
