160 Rhodora [SEPTEMBER 
These four genera have small, dark seeds, with a crustaceous outer 
coat and a beak and lateral rostrate hilum. Judging from the simi- 
larity of their seeds they should be classed together under the Hypoai- 
deae. The seeds of this group are very different from those of the 
other Amaryllidaceae that I have examined and also from those of 
the neighboring families. However, my study has not been extensive 
enough to warrant removing the Hypoxideae from the Amaryllidaceae. 
I am including a description and figures (habit x 15, seed x 40) of 
the American species of Curculigo; and also drawings (habit x L5, 
seed x 40) of the monotypic Pauridia minuta which appears to have 
Fia. 15. Seed of Curculigo scorzoneraefolia. 
a miniature Hypoxis seed. I also include figures (habit x 15, seed 
x 40) of Molineria recurvata (Ait. f.) Herbert (this is Colla's M. 
plicata renamed according to the international rules) to shcw that 
it is unlike Curculigo and while the seed appears to the unaided eye 
be “inappendiculata” it has really, when seen under even a low 
powered glass, the beak and rostrate hilum of the Hypoxideae. 
CURCULIGO SCORZONERAEFOLIA (Lam.) Baker. Tuber cylindrical 
2.5-above 8 em. long, about 8 mm. thick, crowned with a tuft of 
fibers and the disintegrating membranous sheaths of the old leaf- 
bases; leaves pilose, linear to lanceolate, 1.5-14 mm. broad, 1-3.5 
dm. long; in the broader-leaved plants the leaves narrowed to a petio- 
lar base; scapes mostly one-flowered, 5-8.5 cm. long; pedicels very 
short, scarcely protruding from the tuft of basal fibers; bracts lanceo- 
late, leaf-like, about 2 cm. long; ovary cylindrical when mature, 
