1040 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Hedychium. 
Chota Nagpur; Behar; N. Bengal; Chittagong. 
A tall herb, leafy stem 4-6 feet high. Beng. Cates 
natha, dulala-champa. 
2188. Hepycurum GracitE Roxb.; F. 1. i. 14; F. B. I. vi. 229. 
Chittagong. 
A tall herb, leafy stems 2-3 feet high. 
2139. HepyYCHIUM THYRSIFORME Ham.; F. B. I. vi. 230. 
Chittagong. 
A tall, leafy herb ; a 3-4 in. wide. 
2140. 2S asipetatt COCCINE var. ANGUSTIFOLIA Bak. ; 
F, B: E.-vi. 261. i, signers Liu. 
Chittag 
ong. 
A tall, cere herb; leaves 15-2 in. wide. Beng. Bhui- 
ada. 
934. Curcuma Linn. 
Stemless herbs with tuberous rootstocks, bearing sessile and 
long: eer tubers; leaves usually oblong, often very large. 
un i r est 
nlarged, 
ovate, membranous, enclosing aa pent Gasie flowers, 
which open in succession. Sepals 3, connate in a short, cylindric, 
minutely toothed calyx. Petals 8, connate in a corolla with 
funnel-shaped tube; lobes usually ovate or oblong, the upper 
longer and somewhat concave. Stamen 1 perfect; filament 
1 
base ; lateral staminodes oblong, petaloid, connate with the fila- 
ment ; lip orbicular, with a deflexed tip. Carpels 3, connate in & 
3-celled ovary; ovules numerous, on axial placentas; style fili- 
form ; stigma 2-lipped, the lobes ciliate. Fruit a tardily dehiscent, 
globose, membranous, 3-valved capsule. Seeds ovoid or oblong, 
usually arillate. 
*Flowering spike lateral, apart from and usually appearing earlier than 
the leafy spike :—[p. 1041] 
Rootstock small, emitting only fleshy fibres, terminating in pale, 
oblong, pendulous tubers; sheaths of the pseudostem pale-green; 
flowers longer than the bracts, appearing in the early a with or 
only spain’ before the green leaves.......ccscccssssssesssseeveee ustifolia. 
Rootstock large, with sessile palmate tubers as well as fesby fibres, 
