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CURCUMA longa. 
Common Turmerick. 
nae 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Scrraminex, 
CURCUMA L..— Corolla limbo utroque 3-partito. Anthera duplex, basi 
bicalearata. Capsula bilocularis seminibus numerosis arillatis, Zmbryo 
simplex, albumine et yitello. FJ. ind. 1. 20. 
Sect. 1. Spica centrali. 
C. longa; bulbis parvis cum tuberibus numerosis longis palmatis intus au- 
rantiacis, foliis long’ petiolatis lato-lanceolatis unicoloribus.. Fl. ind. 
- 32, 
Mangilla-Kua. Rheede Hort. Mal. 11. p. 21. ¢. 11. 
Curcuma domestica major. Rumph. amboin. 5. p. 162. t. 67. 
Amomum Curcuma. Jacq. vind. 3, t. 4. 
can longa. Retz. obs. 3.72. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 14. Rom. et Schultes, 
-31. 4 
en NN NES Te Ee MMe wins st ft 
After the elaborate descriptions of this plant which have 
been given by Konig in Retzius’s Observationes, and by 
Jacquin in the Hortus Vindobonensis, it appears unnecessary 
to describe it anew. . 
Like the rest of its genus, it produces its flowers enve- 
loped in an imbricated spike of bracteze, which in this species 
are pale yellow, with a slight tinge of pink at the top where 
the bractez are destitute of flowers. 
Its native country is not known with precision, but it is 
cultivated to a great extent in every part of Bengal, where 
it produces large crops of its deep yellow roots, which are 
known in England under the name of Turmerick. 
Our drawing was made at Mr. Colvill’s Nursery during 
last summer. It is an herbaceous plant, and requires the 
heat of the stove. : 
The following is stated in the Flora Indica to be the 
mode of cultivating this plant in Bengal : 
“ The ground must be rich, friable, and so high as not 
