EE NELLA ROTATES ORES | RS eB = RAE RI EDEN Bae eR 
ere 
Curcuma.} SCITAMINES. - 1041 
that may or may not terminate in oblong, pendulous tubers; flowers 
ea in the hot weather, usually distinctly anterior to the 
lea 
Leaves it esis green in all their parts; flowers not longer than 
the b = 
stetie pee few-flowered, with barren pink apical coma as long 
as the green, fertile base; leaves glabrous beneath; flowers as 
long as the bracts ; tubers pale-straw coloured or white inside 
eucorrhiza, 
pikes long, many-flowered, with barren apical purple coma 
shorter than the green (faintly pink towards margins of its bracts) 
fertile base ; — ae beneath ; flowers shorter than the bracts ; 
tubers yellow aromatica 
Leaves or their re ani more or less tinged or clouded with purple 
or red, glabrous beneath ; apical purple barren coma shorter than 
fertile base, the bracts of which are pinkish towards their 
argins :— 
Leaves with a large, persistent, purple cloud down the centre of 
the blade ; flowers not longer than the bracts, the sheaths of the 
pseudostem and the leaf-stalks green :— 
Tubers yellow within Zedoaria 
Tubers bluish-grey within cesia 
Leaf-sheaths and sheaths at the pseudostem red or rusty-red ; 
flowers longer than the br 
Leaves with a faint rusty Sib down the centre of their upper 
sei that passes off as the blade matures, oak a bright- 
; barren apical coma bright-red ; fertile brac 
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dark - green ; mise apical coma pale - pink; ss “bm 
uniform pale-green ; tubers pearly white 
“Flowering spike pate eran in the late rains in the middle re a pre- 
viously formed tuft of leaves :-— (pt 1040] 
Barren apical coma small, faintly pink; fertile bracts pale-green ; 
Tootstock large, ovoid ; sessile ers thick, cylindric :— 
Tubers deep orange-yellow withi longa 
Amada 
in 
Barren apical coma aang fertile bracts green, tinged with red ; 
Tootstock small, Hg with many subglobose tubers at ends of 
fibres ; sessile tubers reclinata 
2141. Curcuma ancusriroLia Roxb. ; F. 1. i. 31; F. B.I. vi. 210; 
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