vegetables to which our plant belongs, are agreed in the 
opinion of its being of the same species with that 
figured in the plate we have quoted from the work of 
Rheede. And if the Curcuma rotunda of Linneus has been 
founded upon this figure, and we can trace it to no other 
soutce, that species.tesolves of course into Kamprrria pan- 
urata. 
A native of Sumatra; introduced subsequently to the 
last edition of the Hortus Kewensis by Sir Abraham Hume. 
he drawing was made from a specimen which flowered this 
autumn, in the hothouse of Mr. Griffin, at South Lambeth. 
Jt may not. be supererogatory to some readers, if we remark, 
that Ginger, Arrow-root, and Turmerick (the basis of Cur- 
rie-powder), substances familiar to every one, are prepara~ 
tions of the tuberous root of different species belonging to 
the same natural tribe with the’ plant before them. . 
Kzmprerta, according to Dr. Roxburgh, differs from 
the closely kindred genus Herpycurum by a radical in- 
florescence and foliage; by a corolla in which the lip is, not 
reversed, and a filament which terminates beyond the 
‘anther in two small lobes. 
_ Rootstock of pandurata round-ovate, sending out straight 
fasciculately descending thick fleshy radicles beset with 
fibres. Leaves bifarious, petioled, from a foot and half to 
two feet high, upright; petioles channelled, sheathing, en- 
closed at the base by rootsheaths, and having a mem- 
branous stipule or ochrea, which crosses them within, near 
their middle, and is continued in a narrow border down- 
wards along their sides: d/ades ovally lanceolate, loosely 
nerved, terminated by a somewhat sudden point, awned 
three or four inches broad, thinly sprinkled with deciduous 
‘down beneath, clouded over at the upper surface by a fine 
white efflorescence, scarcely perceptible but through a 
magnifier. Spike of closely imbricaied bractes ; flowers se- 
veral, appearing one ata time. Cady several times shorter 
than the tube, contracted and unequally cleft at the orifice. 
Corolla 2-3 inches high, pale flesh colour, with crimson 
veins; tube white, twice the length of the limb, slender, 
“straightish, pubescent within; Jdimb six-parted, nodding, 
‘campanulate, semiringent; three exterior segments, nar- 
rowest, oblong, 3-nerved, of one length; of these the 
-middle one is the uppermost of the flower, lanceolate 
pointed and broader than the other two, which are lincar 
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