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CURCULIGO latifolia. - 
Pulo-Pinang Curculigo. 
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“*. HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AspuopELem. Brown prod. 1. 274: Div. Genera inter As- > 
__phodeleas et Amaryllideas media. 
CURCULI( &O. ~ Supré vol. 4, fol. 345. 
CG. latifolia; folits:el 
 vix. longiore limb 
Curculigo latifolia. € 
Tnvolucrum. Rumph. 
Fol. pauca, inflores lioties altiora, elliptico-lanceolata; radicalia, 
plicato-nervosa, erecta, inferne petiolatim attenuata. Capitula radicalia, 
sessilia, lateralia, numerosiflora, spicata, capitato-abbreviata, coarctata, 
bracteose foliacea, magnitudine ovi gallinacet vel circa. Bractew herbacee, 
singulares, floribus longiores, erecta, lanceolato-acuminate, partim sub terra 
apitulo sessili tubo floris (germinis collo nob.) 
der in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 253, 
agaz. 2034. 
. 6. 114. ¢. 53. - 
herentes. Flores flavi, singulares, successive ab cxtrdintrorsim expandentes ; 
cor. G-partita, rotata, equalis, regularis, extus germenque pube longa molli 
sericeo-hirsuta, laciniis subsemuncialibus, lineari-oblongis, acutis. Stamina, co- 
rolle disco inserta, } v. circa breviora, erecto-conniventia: filamenta lutea, 
pee parvo ab invicém distantia, subulata, parum antheris longiora: an- 
there flave, adnate, introrse, lineares, obtusule, apice extis nigricantes, 
basi: emarginate. Stylus pallidiis flavescens, jsilamentis robustior, teres, 
limbo equalis, disci centro insertus: stigma subcapitatum, pubescens. Ger- 
men inferum, subterraneum, sordidé pallens, corolla % longius, obtusé tri- 
quetrum, crassitudine fere penne anserine, fundo fertili 3-loculari, ovulis 
pluribus globosis loculorum intimo angulo ordine binario annexis, collo (vy. 
rostro) summo sterili solido longiore. 
The plant was introduced by Mr. Allen in 1804 from 
the island of Pinang, where it is said to grow wild. 
The species was taken up and defined by Mr. Dryander, 
in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis, but has not yet 
been transferred into any of the general systems. 
Curcuuico, with the exception of one species -from the 
Cape of Good Hope, and that only lately displaced from 
Geruytus, where it originally stood, is a genus belonging 
wholly to India. 
The ‘drawing was taken at Mr. Colvill’s Nursery at 
Chelsea, where the plant is kept in the hothouse. 
Leaves few, many times 
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