1923] Brackett,—Genera related to Hypoxis 161 
sheathed by the bracts and the whole encased by the basal fibers; 
perianth-tube filiform, 2-4 cm. long, pilose, crowned by the six spread- 
ing perianth-segments; perianth-segments lanceolate, 0.7-1.4 cm. 
long, pilose without; capsule indehiscent, cylindrical, subtended by 
the persistent bracts; seeds black, lustrous, subglobose, 2-2.5 mm. in 
diameter, with a small beak and a much expanded hilum.— Baker 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 124 (1878). Hypoxis scorzoneraefolia 
Lamarck, Encye. iii. 183 (1789).—Tropical and subtropical South 
America and the Antilles. 
The accompanying drawings were made from a plant in the Gray 
Herbarium, collected by R. Spruce in the vicinity of Barra, Prov. Rio 
Negro, Brazil, Dec.-Mar., 1850-1851. Plants belonging to this 
species have mostly been distributed as Hypoxis scorzoneraefolia or 
as Hypoxis decumbens L. The leaves of this species are narrower and 
more grass-like than are those of most of the Old World Curculigos; 
yet the seed is as typically that of a Curculigo as in C. orchioides 
Gaertner around which the genus was described. 
PAURIDIA MINUTA (L. f.) Durand «€ Schinz. Corm globose, 4-8 
mm. thick, covered with membranaceous sheaths and the stiff bristly 
bases of the old leaves; leaves fili- 
form to linear-lanceolate, 0.4—3.6 
mm. broad, up to 3.5 cm. long; scapes 
l(rarely 2)-flowered; pedicels longer 
than the peduncles and subtended 
by two setaceous bracts; ovary and 
capsule glabrous; perianth-segments 
2-3.6 mm. long, lanceolate, slightly 
rounded at the apex; capsule sub- 
cylindric, 2-3 mm. long; seeds 0.1-0.2 
mm. in diameter, black, lustrous, 
covered with minute rounded peb- 
bling, making the seeds resemble a 
miniature seed of Hypoxis hirsuta, 
var. leptocarpa.—Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 142 (1895). Ixia minuta L. 
f. Suppl. 92 (1781); Thunb. Diss. Ixia. 6, t. 1, f. 1 (1783). P. hypozi- 
dioides Harvey, Gen. S. Afr. Pl. 342 (1838).—About Cape Town, 
S. Africa. The following are cited here from near Cape Town; Mac 
Owan & Bolus, no. 291, with seeds (hb. Gray); H. Bolus, no. 2815, 
without seeds (hb. Gray). 
MOLINERIA RECURVATA (Ait. f.) Herbert. Tuber cylindrical, 
covered with the dark disintegrating sheaths of the old leaf-bases; 
leaves obovate, about 11 dm. long, about 8-13 cm. broad; the lower 
part narrowed at the base to form a petiole, densely villous when 
young, becoming glabrate at maturity; blade glabrate, acute; scapes 
about 2-3 dm. long, villous, bearing flowers and bracts in an oblong 
Fic. 16. Pauridia minuta and 
seed. 
