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3e. "Anthère insérée presque par le sommet sur le filet, connectif presque 

 nul". In the living flower the filament is affixed to the fleshy trigonous 

 connective about the middle of the dorsal side of the cells (as in all 

 other species of Eucurcuma). 



At. "Labelle capuchonné au sommet". This is indeed the case with all 

 species of Eucurcuma, but only in the bud. In the open flowers the 

 labellum has always a protruding bifid terminal lobe, which in this 

 case is rather long and reflexed. 



Curcuma purpurascens, Bl. (1827, 46). Curcuma domestica major 

 Rumph. 1. c, cum tab. 68 (sphalmate a Burmannio ad C. zedoaria reducta). 



Bulbus conoideo-ovoideus magnus. Rhizomata numerosa crassa imprimis 

 e basi bulbi excrescentia horizontalia et verticalia saepe clavata, semper 

 leviter apicem versus curvata; rami secundarii et tertiarii pauci vel numerosi 

 crassi breves plastici, e latere inferiore rhizomatis exorti, illique similes 

 horizontales et sursum recurvati. 



Omnes partes adultae intus intense sordide aurantiaco-luteae; novellae 

 pallide luteae vel luteae. Rhizoma juvenile extus luteum squamis albis 

 vestitum. Tuberi filipenduli magni ovoideo-vel oblongo-fusiformes fibris 

 longis penduli intus pleromate griseo, cortice lato intense luteo. Radices 

 incrassati stirpis juvenilis pleromate luteo, cortice griseo. 



Gaulis valde compressus cum foliis 6 vel pluribus erecto-patulis ad 

 1.5 M. alius, juvenilis squamis 3—4 appressis apice crasse spinulosis saepe 

 rubescentibus involucratus. Folia magna, inferiora subsessilia, superiora 

 sensim longius petiolata, petiolo late canaliculato, exteriora minora late 

 elliptica, interiora sensim magis elongata, omnia basi lata obtusa, constricta 

 et specie rotundata, in petiolum decurrentia, albomarginata, apice breviter 

 acuminatissima, vulgo 2 — 2.5 — Ay^\o\\g\ox?i quam lata, supra sub lente 

 fortiore puberula et versus apicem ciliolata, subtus glaberrima, intense 

 viridia, costa media supra per totam longitudinem sordide purpurea, in fol. 

 exterioribus colore magis intense, in junioribus sensim pallidiore demum 

 evanescente, parenchymate attingente imprimis in medio folii etiam colorato. 

 Ligula angusta cum margine pubescente vaginarum ciliata, lobi semilunares. 



Inflorescentia magna in apice caulis cum scapo '/4 ~~ '/2 metralis, nunc 

 vaginas foliorum superans, petiolis superata, nunc inter vaginas disjunctas 

 semi-inclusa. 



Folia peduncularia valde varia semper sessilia saepe unum foliaceum 

 angu'ste lanceolatum pedale vel ultra, spicae appressum. Bracteae vacuae 

 semper 1 — 3. Bracteae florales latissime ovatae vel subobovatae apice bre- 

 vissime obtusissime attenuatae late rotundatae, bursis latissimis validis, partis 

 liberis aequilongis; haec valde induplicatae, canalem versus apicem dilatatum, 

 bursa angustiorem sistentes; in parte superiore spicae elongatae, late 



