278 CLII. AMARYLLIDEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Hypoxis 
anthers sagittate. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 108; Kurz in Miq. Ann. 
Mus. Lugd. Bat. iv. 178. H. minor, Don Prodr. 53; Royle Il. t. 91, £. 5. 
H. Franquevillei, Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 586. H. curculigoides, Wall. 
Cat. 5164. Curculigo graminifolia, Nimmo in Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 215; 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 276. gd 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Kashmir eastwards, ascending to 7000 ft. in 
Sikkim. KnasrA HILLS, BENGAL, BEHAR and Burm4, and in the Western Ghats 
from the Concan southward. (Not in Ceylon).—DisTRIB. Java, China, Japan. 
Diccious, Rootstock globose, or elongate and erect, crowned with fibrous 
remains of old leaves. Leaves 4-14 by Act in., subcoriaceous, keeled. Scape 
1-4 in., filiform, hairy ; bracts setaceous. Ovary clavate. Perianth-lobes 3-3 10 
elliptic-lanceolate, yellow, outer green on the back. Capsule 1—} in., clavate, at 
length 3-valved, crowned with the erect perianth-lobes, walls thin. Seeds black, 
tuberculate. 
2. CURCULIGO, Gerin. f 
Root.tock tuberous, or a coated corm. Leaves lanceolate and plaited, 
or linear and flat. Scape short or long; flowers often unisexual, spicate 
or racemed or subcapitate. Perianth usually produced above the ovary 9$ 
a solid stipes, bearing the rotate limb. Stamens ovary and seeds of Hypowis. 
Fruit indehiscent, usually more or less beaked.—Species about 12, 
tropical. 
Sect I. Mozrniera. Perianth limb sessile or very shortly stipitate 
above the ovary. , 
1. C. recurvata, Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew Ed. 2, ii. 253; leaves 
long-petioled lanceolate plicate glabrous or with the nerves beneath hary, 
scapes many flattened villous, flowers in a decurved subcapitate raceme, 
ovary turbinate, berry globose hairy. Bot. Reg. t. 770; Rowb. Fl. Ind. 
145; Benth. Fl. Austral. vi. 448; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 585; Wall 
Cat. 5159. C. villosa, Wall. Cat. 5163 B. Moliniera recurvata, Herbert 
Amaryllid. 84; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 120; Kurz in Ann, Mus. 
Lugd. Bat. iv. 175. M. plicata, Colla, Hort. Ripp. App. ii. 333, t. 18. 
capitulata, Herbert l.c. Leucojum capitulatum, Lour. FT. Cochin. 199. 
Hypoxis Saarpata, Zerb. Ham. 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Nepal eastwards, BENGAL, CHITTAGONG - 
Burma. CEYLON; at Suffragam.—DisTRIB. Malay Islands, S. China, Australia. 
. Rootstock tuberous. Leaves very variable, 2-3 ft. by 3-6 in., recurved, narrow t 
into a channelled petiole 1-2 ft., villous below, glabrous above. Scapes 3-9 in., stow 
or slender, bracts spathaceous, lanceolate, villous; heads of flowers 2-4 in. kw 
villous ; flowers pedicelled. Ovary 4-} in., villous; bracts 1-1} in. ; cells der 
10-ovuled. Perianth about 4 in. diam., outer segments villous on the back. uw 
ments very short; anthers cohering. Berry 4-} in. diam. Stigmas sub Sov 
shining. Seeds black, testa deeply closely grooved. 
2. C. gracilis, Wall. Cat. 5760; leaves long-petioled lanceolate plicat? 
glabrous, scapes many flattened tomentose, flowers in a decurved dens 
elongate raceme, ovary oblong tip narrowed, berry oblong ?. Molin 
gracilis, Kurz in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iv. 177; Baker in Journ. Inn 
Soc. xvii. 120. , , 
TnuoricAL HIMALAYA ; from Set al, Wallich, eastwards. 
, Habit, &c., of C. recurvata, of which it is probably a form, but more send 
with the ovary oblong and the inflorescence elongate. Wallich’s specimens /'". 
leaves 8-12 by 3-1 in., short woolly scapes, few-fld. loose racemes, and flower? ^, yst 
diam. Sikkim specimens have stoutly petioled leaves 23 ft. by 43 in., and oe 
scape 6-12 in. The var. Jamesoni, Baker l. c. 121; with leaves rigidly coriac 
flowers subsessile in a dense globose head I should refer to recurvata. 
