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Ters plant grows freely m the botanic garden, and flowers in May, 

 Here the palmate, or horizontal tubers, are particularly straight and long: 

 they run far, and very deep in the earth. Their inward coloni-, as well 

 as the bulbs, very pale odhraceous yellow, almost pure white. Pendulous 

 tubers nuraerous, oblong, in wa-rdly pearl-white. Leaves broad-lanceolar, 

 uniform green; about 2 feet long; whole height of the plant from 3 to 

 5 feet. Spikes lateral, the inferior fertile portion not longer than the rosy 

 coma. Flowers length of the bractes ; exteTior border slightly tinged 

 with pink; inner yellow, / '- ... 1. . , , 



From Chittagong, Mr. McRae, the surgeon of that station, sent me the 

 living roots of this plant, (or of one so very like as not to be distinguished 

 In their present state,) under the name Cachur, and observed that from 

 the roots the powder called Tikhur is obtained. See Mr. Colebrooke s 



note on the next species, C, angustifolia. '-""" '''"' 



^ Jw-i Bllr.- 

 CuRCUMA. angustifolia. R. 



Bulbs oblong, with pale oblong pendulous tubers otily. Leaves petioleds, 

 narrow lanceolar. Flowers longer than the bractes. 

 IMmr of the Hindm, /iGoJo: • .r.- 



FouND by Henry Colebrooke Esquire, in forests from the banks of 

 the Sone, to Nagpur, and by him introduced into the botanic garden at 

 Calcutta, where it flowers in May, June, and July. The leaves make 

 their appearance about the same time, and decay about the beginning of 

 the cool season, in November. 



It has now been seven years in this garden, and it has not been ob- 

 served that it ever produces any of the palmate tubers, so common in the 

 othier species; but abounds in pendulous tubers, which furnish that fecula, 

 or starch called Tikhur or Tkor^ which is sold in the markets at Benares 



