340 DESCRIPTION OF 



Sect. 2. With Spikes central. 



10. Curcuma longa. Linn. sp. ph ed. Willd. I. 14. Relz. ohs, 3. 73. 



Bulbs small^ and with the numerous^ long^, palmate tubers inwardly deep 

 1 orange-yellow. Leaves long-petioled^ broad-lanceolar, uniform green. 



Manjella-kua. Rhccd. mal, 11. t. 11. bad. 



Curcuma. Rumph. amb. 5. p. 162. t. 67. 



Amomum Curcuma. Gmelin. and Jacq. Hort. Vind. 3. t. 4. 



Haldij Halidra^ or Haridra of the Hindus, and Bengalese. 



Cultivated very generally over the southern parts of Asia; where 

 indigenous I cannot say, 



CURCUMA LONGA. 



Manjella-Kua, Rheed. Cuning, Cunjet. Rumph. 

 ' Sans. Haridra, Pita, Canchani, Gaurf &c. 



Hind. Ilaldi', Haladi, Halidra, Pit-ras. 



Beng, Ilalud, Halidra, Pit-ras. 



Or. Haladi 



Carn. Arisan, Arisin. - 



I Tcl'ing.. Pasupu. ':;';-;-;; 1 > 



•(?Mc;r;,.=;Haradul.; -^ ■;,.-- ':■: •> -'f-^o'i «u i 



A/ar^«;^." Halad, HaladL • V-^^A • ,r/D c:c: ; • i ii-aii 3i -, . 



Penjub. 'Halad, Haradra. ..;•,;' 



i': ■•' •• '. ^iCrtt^/iOT.-i :Ij.yadar. . . ; ■ . • • 



i.qE|i^eaoo lo aa?s3 ;ii 9jB^7f*ei3£2^erd.Ch6beh, Zerd-ehob (Darsard <?c;rcfaf.^ 



. .JaifjJif&.^rfiUruku's s'ufr, Uruku's s'abaghin (Carcumaa Avicenna.) 



.iV/a/«6. ,- IVIanjeJla-cuwa Rheed. (Manjella Coiia Rumph.) 



Majai/. Cunjet. Rumph. Cunhit, Howison. Cunhir //. Cunin R. and H. 



;WOq s 





^ - TTie botanical appellation of the genus has been taken from a supposed Arahick name of the spe- 

 cies, which came into use as a denomination of the drug, upon the authority, as it should seem, of the 

 Latin version of Avicenna. The original term, however, which is Carcum, signifies, not turuierick, 

 but saffron. It is Per^faw according to Richardson; y^ra&zc;t in the dictionary of Golius and 

 Meninski ; Hebrew m Parkhurst's lexicon ; but is Si/riacJc according to the au'thor of the Mekh. 

 zenu'l adviTjeh. It probably is derived from the same source with the Sanscrit Cimcuma, with the 

 Greek Crocos anH Crocon; and with the Latin Crocus and Crocum ; all signifying saffron: aa 

 affinity of names which had been already remarked loy Rumphius, 



