15 CURCULIGO ORCHIOIDES. 
in length towards the top, so that their apices are nearly hori- 
zontal (corymbe-like) one-flowered. 
Flowers pretty large, yellow; the one or two lowermost are herma- 
phrodite, above all male. 
Hermaphrodite flowers below. 
Peduncle (of the flower) so long as to elevate the flower above the 
earth about one inch, hairy, three-sided. 
Calyx none. 
Petals six, oblong, spreading, withering. 
Filaments six, very short. 
Anthers linear, erect. 
Germ sessile, lanced. 
Style very short. 
Stigma large, tapering, apex three-cleft. 
Capsule, when a germ, shews three cells, with the rudiments of 
six or eight seeds in each; but when the seeds are ripe, the 
number is only from one to four, and they seem as if in a 
transparent fleshy one-celled capsule, and separated by a 
spongy fleshy substance. 
Seeds from one to four, shining, black, beaked. 
Male Flowers: Peduncle, Corol, and Stamen as above ; the Germ, Style, 
and Stigma are wanting.* 
A native of shady uncultivated places about Samulcotah, though 
by no means common. In my garden it flowers all the year round. 
14. MIMUSOPS ELENGI. 
Linn. Spec. Plant. 497. 
Pagadoo of the Telingas. 
Magadoo of the Tamuls. 
Kunki of the native Portuguese. 
Trunk erect, in general from eight to twelve feet to the branches. 
Bark pretty smooth. 
Branches exceedingly numerous, spreading, with the extremities as- 
cending, so as to form a most elegant globular, thick head. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, approximated, declined or depend- 
ing, waved, very firm, both sides a deep shining green, three 
to four inches long, and one or one and a half broad. 
* Description by Doctor Koenig. 
Radix biennis, fusiformis, rugosa, rugis annularibus, cortice fusco tecta, superne squamis _ 
scariosis vestita, carnosa, sesquipedalis, crassitie digiti minoris. 
Folia radicalia, fasciculatim conferta, erecta et recurvata, quaedam terre incumbentia, linea- 
ria, acuta, striata, canaliculata, basi plerumque quinquenervia, punctis minimis 
densis, pilisque rarioribus longis albis adspersa, pedalia. 
Scapus vix supra terram prominulus, angulosus, striatus, albus, squamis scariosis foliisque 
obvolutus, brevissimus. Flores parum supra terram prominuli, fasciculatim conferti, 
pedunculati. Pedunculi erecti, compressiusculi, subalati, basi tenuiores, pilis rario- 
ribus longis albis adspersi, tubo floris breviores, nivei. 
Spatha monophylla, lineari-oblonga, acuta, membranacea, striata, pilis rarioribus adspersa, 
longitudine tubi corollz, germen involvens. 
Corolla monopetala, infundibuliformis. Tubus filiformis, pilosus, inanis, niveus. Limbus 
sexpartitus: laciniz patentes, concave, ovato-oblonge, acuta, apice barbate, extus 
pallidz, intus flave, pilis brevioribus adspersee, subcarnosz. 
Filamenta sex, corollz adnata, patentia, filiformia, vix longitudine styli. Anthera \ineari- 
hastate, longitudine filamentorum. 
Germen inferum, lineari-oblongum, triquetro-compressum. Stylus cum tubo corollz unitus, 
extra tubum corolla adnatus, pyramidalis, basi contractus, sexangularis, angulis mar- 
ginatis, ciliatis, parum tortuosis, corolla brevior. Stigma obtusiusculum. 
Capsula subterranea, lineari-oblonga, utrinque acuta, triquetra, leviter striata, bilocularis, 
vix pollicaris, crassitie penne anserine, alba. Semina 6 ad 8, raro plura, subnidu- 
lantia, ovata, compressiuscula, rostrata, rostro obtusiusculo, prominulo. 
MIMUSOPS ELENGI. 16 
Stipules small, lanced, concave, rusty, falling. 
Peduncles axillary, from one to eight, short, clubbed, bowing, undi- 
vided, one-flowered. 
Flowers middle-sized, depending, white, very fragrant. 
Perianth below, eight-leaved in a double row: leaflets lanced, four 
exterior leathery and larger, permanent. 
Tube of the Corol very short, fleshy ; border (it may be divided into 
a double series of segments and a single nectary, or a single 
series of segments and a double nectary, the first method I shall 
follow) composed of a double series of segments: the exterior 
consists of sixteen, spreading; the interior of eight, generally 
contorted, converging; all are lanced, and a little torn at their 
extremities. 
Nectary eight-leaved, conical, ragged, hairy near the base, inserted 
alternately with the filaments into the mouth of the tube, con- 
verging. 
Filaments eight, short, hairy. 
Anthers linear, sharp-pointed, below two-parted, converging. 
Germ egged, hairy; in it are always the rudiments of eight seeds. 
Style awled. 
Stigma generally a little ragged. 
Berry oval, size and shape of an olive, generally one-seeded. 
Seed oval, compressed, smooth, shining, chesnut-coloured. 
I have only once found this in its wild state, it was on the moun- 
tains in the Rajahmundry Circar, where it grows to be a middle sized 
tree. On account of its fragrant flowers it is universally planted in 
the gardens of the natives, as well as in those of all the European 
nations in India. It flowers chiefly during the hot season. 
The flowers are sacred to the Hindoo gods. 
15. MIMUSOPS HEXANDRA. 
Palla of the Telingas. 
Trunk erect; frequently when old it has large rotten excavations. 
Bark ash-coloured. 
Branches numerous, spreading, extremities nearly erect, forming a 
large shady head. . 
Leaves alternate, petioled, broad, wedge-form, or inverse-hearted, 
deeply end-nicked, very hard, both sides a deep shining green, 
three to five inches long, and one and a half or two broad. 
Petiole round, one or one and a half inch long. 
Peduncles axillary, from one to six, erect, or spreading, nearly as 
long as the petiole, clubbed, undivided, one-flowered. 
Flowers considerably smaller than the former. 
Calyx below, six-leaved, three interior, and three exterior: the 
exterior are leathery. 
Corol one-petaled: tube very short; border like the former, con- 
sists of two rows of segments, the exterior twelve, the interior 
six; all spreading. 
Nectary situate between the filaments, as in the former, but spread- 
ing, shorter, and more deeply indented. 
Filaments six, spreading. 
Anthers oval. 
Pistil as in the former. 
Berry as in the former. 
This is a large tree, a native of the mountainous, uncultivated 
parts of the Circars; is never cultivated, nor seen near culti- 
