S4l BESCRIPTION OF 



IS, CvRCVMA 7nontana;. Corom, pi. 2. Ko. Ibl. 



Bulbs eonic^ with pale yellow palmate tubers. Leaves sliort-petioled, ob*! 

 long. The whole plant uniform greea^ except the rosy coma of the spike. 



A NATIVE of tlie vallies amongst the Circar mountains, and blossoms 

 during the rains. The exterior border of tHe corolla very pale pink; the 



point of its upper segment broadj and' rather obtuse;' in most of th&ot!ier 

 species it is acute, 



54 Curcuma rccUnata, H. 



Bulbs fusiform, with scarce any palitiate thbers, but many straw co^ 

 ^ ,. , loured, oval., pendulotts^ Leaves petioled, oblong, reclinate, 



^. A NATIVE pf Hindostan. Blossoms during, th^ rains. Is the smallest^ 

 Qf the jgenis wkich I have yet seen,^ The spike purple throughout; the 

 flowers of the same colour^ except a small tinge of yellow on- the centre^ 

 of the lip; and the sheaths of the leaves tinged with redv ;irr--- 



BEsiDES-the foregoing fourteen species, there are in the garden several' 

 more, or varieties, which have been lately introduced, and have not yet 

 flowered. One of them with an ^ruginous root, found by Colonel Hard- 

 . wicKE in the Duah. One or tv/o from Malabar', said to be sorts of Arrozu^^ 

 roof, and two or three introduced by Dh Carey from P^^w; making: 

 in all about twenty species in this gar-denv _A 



CrEN. Char. Corolla vir'Mi interior border urtilaliiate/^nf?i^rdoiibre, suritioiJnted^ 

 with an entire^ or l<}bate cr^stv CopsM^e 3-celled;, 3-valvedi Seeds m&tiyj 

 arilliedV:^. J.:':? ;.;"; ^\ ■■.,-■:"■'■ -^- ■' -.-'i i-,' : - ^..^v-- ' i 



' As this genus now staAds, it ris a good", att^ Jlaltural one. The plants be- j 

 longing to it, of my acquaintance I always mean, are but few» They have I 

 creeping, Jointed,, perennial^ tuberous roo/Sj with numerous, strong fibres i 



