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C. caesia Roxb. Stem green. Bulbs and rhizomes internally light 

 blue. Purple cloud on the leaves running down the whole length of the 

 midrib. Coma deep bright red. Habitat: Bengal. 



C. amarissima Rose. Stem brown. Bulbs and rhizomes with a yellow 

 pleroma and a blue cortex. Leaves entirely green. Coma bracts white with 

 red tops. Habitat: sent from Serampore to Liverpool. 



C. ferruginea Roxb. Stem ferrugineous. Rhizome internally pale 

 yellow (with a bluish cortex?) Leaves with a pale ferruginous cloud on 

 either side of the midrib only about the middle. Coma-bracts very acute, 

 crimson and white. Habitat: Bengal. 



C. phaeocaulis Val. Stem dark purple brown. Rhizome internally 

 yellow and pale blue or greenish. Leaves with a dark purple cloud stret- 

 ching almost to the base, but very narrow in the lower half of the leaf. 

 Comabracts acute, white with crimson tops. Habitat: Java. 



Curcuma Lörzingü Val. nov. sp. 



Herba robusta sesquimetralis. Rhizoma crassum, elongatum, intus sordide 

 citrinum(21 1). Folia maxima, media petio lata, erecta,rigidiuscula, crasse membra- 

 nacea lanceolato-oblonga (P = 3.5), supra intense viridia, subtus glaucescentia. 



Inflorescentia lateralis, ad semimetralis. Pedunculus glaber squamis paucis 

 (nunc una basilari una pedunculari) elongatis vestitus. Squama peduncularis 

 dum explanata lanceolata (140X30) acutissima membranacea basin apice 

 attingens. 



Spica longa, densa, bracteis infimis ceteris sat aequalibus florigeris. Brac- 

 teae florentes densae, parte libera late ovata obtusissima rotundata vel 

 subtruncato-rotundata, plerumque multo latiore quam longa et bursa miilto 

 breviore vel aeqiiali, pallide virides, glabrae. Bracteae comae subobovato- 

 oblongae obtusae sunimo apice haud mucronatae. Bracteolae tubum super- 

 antes, carinatae. Flores (an normales?) inter minores, lis C. Manggae non 

 absimiles sed minores, haud émergentes. Calyx parvus truncatus; petala 

 ovato-oblonga obtusa. Labellum obovatum, lobulus medianus productus 

 brevis latus, lobi laterales lati valde incurvi. Staminodia oblonga, basi paul- 

 lum attenuata valde obliqua apice oblique rotundata. Filamentum angustum 

 longius quam latum, anthera angusta, lingula brevissima, calcaria stricta, 

 parallela, thecis duplo breviora, antice productione thecarum sulcata non 

 pollinifera. Stylodia nune parva. 



The description is taken from two spikes preserved in alcohol. Leaves 

 are only known from young sterile specimens growing in the Bot. G., very 

 large and erect, of a thick, rigid structure like those of C. xanthoriza, 

 only entirely dark green above, kind of pale seegreen (cod. 341 — 346) 

 below. A measured leaf attained 700 X 200 + 150. Flowers, in the 

 examined spikes perhaps prematurely opened, only 38 mm. long, cal. 7, 

 covr. tube 9, faux 9-10X21. Petals 13 X 9 and 12 X 10. Staminodes 12 X 7. 



