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pale pink: coma copious and rosy. Leaves petioled, lanceolar^ every part 

 green. 



For this large, uncommonly elegant species, we are indebted to Mr, 

 Felix Carey, who found it in Pegu, and sent plants of it from Ra}igoo?i to 

 this garden ; where they blossomed in May kst: about the same time of 

 the year the young fohage begins to appear. The root, so far as we have 

 yet seen, consists of very large, oval bulbs, inwardly of a pale ochraceous 

 colour; no palmate tubers^ but many of the oblong pendulous kind, 

 which are inwardly white, and penetrate very deep into the earth. The- 

 leaves very large; petioles and sheaths included, from five to six feet high ; 

 colour of every part thereof uniform green, except in those which appear 

 „ first in the season ; these have a faint ferruginous cloud from the middle 

 up the centre of the upper surface only. The spikes are uncommonly 

 large, and elegant. The flowers numerous, with the exterior border of 

 the corolla pink, and the interior yellow, 



8j. Curcuma leucorhlzq. R. 



Bulbs ovate, palmate tubers long, ami spread far, both sorts inwardly pale 

 straw colour. Leaves petioled, broad-lanceolar, smooth, uniform green in 

 every part. Spikes few-flovvcred, with coma as long as the fertile portion. 

 Tommon Poeti. Humph, amb. 5. p: 169.' 



.^NATIVE of the. forests of Bahar. , From Bhaglepur Mr. Glass, 

 th^;:^urgeon of that station,, sent roots to this, garden, under the name 

 Tecour, (Tikhur) and observed that it is not cultivated, but grows in the 

 forests to the southward of that place. The process, he says, for obtain- 

 ing the flour called Tecour is as follows. 5*' The root is dug up, and 

 " rubbed oh a stone, or beat in a' rfiortar, aftcnvards rubbed in v/ater 

 " with the hand, and strained throusrh'ai 61bth : the focuki subsides, the 

 " water is poured off, and the fecula dried." 



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