Curculigo, CLII. AMARYLLIDE®. (J.D. Hooker.) 279 
g 
3. C. crassifolia, Hook. f.; leaves long-petioled elliptic-lanceolate 
thickly and rigidly coriaceous plicate glabrous above beneath white-tomen- 
tose, scape flattened stout densely tomentose, flowers in a very large dense 
oblong raceme, bracts glabrous or woolly, ovary oblong top silky, berry 
oblong. Moliniera crassifolia, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 191. 
" on Himataya, J. D. H. Kyasta Mrs., alt. 5-5000 ft., J. D. H. & T. T., 
ann, Clarke, 
Leaves 2-3 ft, by 3-6 in., strongly closely plicate; petiole 1 ft. stout. Scape 
in.; raceme 3—4 in. ; bracts 1-1} in., very variable; lower flowers pedicelled . 
Perianth segments 2 in. outer hairy or villous externally. Berry } in. long. Seeds 
globose, black, granulate, 
* €. Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cat. 5162; leaves petioled elliptic- 
lanceolate plicate glabrous, scape very short villous, flowers in a lax erect 
or inclined few or many fld. raceme, bracts linear, ovary fusiform or clavate 
villous, berry oblong. `? C. pauciflora, Moon Cat. Pl. Ceyl. Hy De? in 
chocarpa, Wight Ic. 1,9045; Thwaites Enum. 323; Kurz in Ann. Mus. CH 
at. iv. 178. H. latifolia, leptostachya, pauciflora and brachystachya, 
Wight lo.t.2044 9046. Moliniera Finlaysoniana, Baker in Journ, Linn. 
i. 121 
Soe. xvii, 121, . . 
4, LMAYANCORE and MALABAR, Wight, &c. CEYLON; central province, ascending 
0 5000 ft, 
Leaves 12-24 b 1 j i finely acuminate, sometimes sparsely 
. ` y l-1} in., thin, 5-nerved, finely : ? - : 5 
"IY, petiole very slender." Scape short, slender ; pedicels 1-13 in» a P 
racts filiform, Racemes with the upper flowers male. Perianth Noe 5 void- 
long, of males shorter. Fruit 4-8 in., carved, few seeded, walls thin. Seeds o 
“long, finely deeply striate, black, shining. 
ar. linearifolia, Thwaites l. c., has narrow almost linear leaves. 
, Beet, IT. CURCULIGO PROPER. Ovary narrowed into a long beak or 
Stipes Supporting the perianth-limb. 
5. C. orchioides, Gertn. Fruct. i. 63, t. 13 ; polygamous, leaves long- 
or Short-petioled or subsessile lanceolate membranous plicato glabrons 
Scape very short subterranean, flowers subsessile, bracts lanceola th long 
Tanons, Ovary small amongst the leaf bases, stipes of the pertant Linn. 
form, stigmas 3 erect separate, capsule oblong. Baker in “Th aites 
Soe. xvii, 124; Roxb. Cor. Pl. i. 14, t. 13; Fl. Ind. ii. IE IL. Cat 
um, 3245 Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 215; Bot. Mag. t. 1076; Pa 2043; 
108: Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. Wi. 685. C. malabarica, Wight Ze. Kc, 
5 dis. & Gibs. Bomb, Fl, 976. C. brevifolia, Dryand. in Ait. Hot Gite l.c. 
a 99; Wight Ie. t. 2043; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 215; Dalz. ET 
al dulcis, Steud, Pl, Hohenack. No. 135. Gethyllis "Soc. Beng. 1870, 
ma E major, Zoll. ex. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc, Deng. ' 
1 84.— Rheede Hort. Mal. xii. t. 59. . 00 ft. The 
K SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon eastwards, ascending to 60 uthward. 
HASIA Hurts, MuxNiPoRE . and the WEsTERN Guiars from the Concan so 
= ISTRIR, Java. , ti roportion. 
Le Rootstock tuberous or elongate, sometimes 1 ft. long and stout le d'in” or less. 
“ves 6-18 by 4-1 in. tips viviparous on reaching the ground ; petiole distichous 
lA l in., clavate, flattened, hidden by the leaf-sheaths ; fow nents ]-3 im. 
OWest 2-sexual, the rest all male ; bracts lanceolate ; perianth a cleft ; cells 6-8 
Nie. Villous, the stipes and perianth alone epigaeous ; stigma, n septa spongy. 
ued. Capsule 1 in., oblong, hypogeous, 1-4 seeded, beak slender ; sep ) 
` ‘ong, oblong, deeply grooved in wavy lines, 
With no Ovary, style or stigma. de 
black, shining. Male jl. 
