CURCUMA ELATA. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
SECT. II. SCITAMINE®. 
Gey. Cuar.—Anther double, embracing the style, bicalcarate at the base; filament petal-like, in three segments, 
the middle segment antheriferous ; capsule three-celled ; seeds numerous. 
Srrc. Cuar.—Spike lateral; plant intirely green; leaves broad-ovate, sessile, downy underneath; exterior limb of 
corolla white ; lip ovate, bifid, yellow towards the apex; coma large, dark purple. 
Syy.—Curcuma elata. Rozxb. Flor. Ind. i. 25. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Bulbs and palmate tubers very large, the latter yellow within; pendulous tubers ovate, of a pearly white 
within ; stems 6—8 feet high; leaves appearing when the plant is in flower, broad-ovate, sessile, sheathing the stem, 
from two to three feet in length by one in breadth, downy or villous underneath; spike lateral, rising to the height 
of a foot; fertile bractes very large, imbricate, dark-green; barren bractes or coma white at the base, but deep 
purple above; inner bracte white, membranaceous, unequally bifid at the apex ; calyx white, in three obtuse segments ; 
corolla scarcely longer than the bractes; outer limb in three segments, white, with a slight tinge of pink; lip ovate, 
slightly elongated, and bifid at the apex, which is yellow; filament or upper lip of the interior limb of corolla in 
three segments, the middle segment bearing the anther, the lateral ones elliptic, converging towards the middle, 
white; anther double, bicalcarate at the base; style filiform, supported at the base by two long, slender, diverging 
germinal processes ; stigma a ciliated cup; germen ovate, villous. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
One of the largest species of the genus, a native of Burma, introduced by Dr. William Carey, into the Botanic 
Garden at Calcutta, and sent from thence to Liverpool, where it has repeatedly flowered. Although very large, 
the palmate tubers possess a slighter aroma than most of the other species. I cannot agree with Dr. Roxburgh, 
that its external appearance resembles C. Zedoaria, the leaves of which are purple-clouded, and which scarcely 
attains to half its height. 
REFERENCES. 
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. Root. 
2. Calyx. 
3. Inner bracte. 
4. Intire flower. 
. Flower divested of the lip, shewing the anther, style and stigma in front. 
The same seen at the back. 
Germen and processes, style and stigma. 
. Style and anther. 
. Lip separated from the flower. 
