Pauridia. | AMARYLLIDEZ (Baker). 178 
Coast Reeron: hills and flats near Ca t 
: pe Town, Thunberg! Burchell, 8448 ! 
Hs dal oe one oe sone eee. MacOwan and ‘Bolus, Herb. Norm., 
! MacOwan, ! enbosch Div. ; bet 
Wert, below 1000 ft., Drage? iv.; between Stellenbosch and Somerset 
II, CURCULIGO, Gaertn. 
Perianth cut down to the ovary; segments 6, lanceolate, sub- 
equal, spreading. Stamens 6, inserted at the base of the perianth- 
segments ; filaments short, filiform; anthers linear, basifixed. 
Ovary 3-celled, narrowed into a long beak resembling a perianth 
tube ; style short, entire; stigmas 38, oblong, erect, adpressed. 
Fruit indehiscent. Seeds globose ; testa black, crustaceous. 
Rootstock tuberous ; leaves plicate, marcescent, broad or narrow ; flowers yellow, 
solitary or many, capitate. 
Disteis. Species 12, extending to Tropical Africa, Tropical Asia, Australia, 
and Tropical America. 
Rootstock a globose corm... us vss ave nse (1) plicaat. 
Rootstock arhizome ...  .., ss. ase wees ove (2) MAMaquensis, 
1. C. plicata (Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii, 253); corm depresso- 
globose, 3-$ in. diam.; outer tunies of brown reticulated fibres, 
crowned with bristles; produced leaves 2-6 to a corm, linear, weak, 
glabrous, 3-9 in. long; peduncles 1-3 to a corm, hidden like the 
ovary in the basal sheaths ; perianth-limb 3-1 in. long; pale green 
and glabrous outside, yellow within; segments acute, laxly 5—7- 
nerved; anthers linear, obtuse, } in. long; ovary with a filiform, 
green, glabrous beak 2-6 in. long ; capsule oblong, rostrate, indehiscent, 
narrowed into a persistent beak. Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 
755; Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xvii. 122. Hypozis plicata, 
Linn. fil. Suppl. 197; Thunb. Prodr. 60. Fabricia plicata, Thunb. 
in Fabric, Reise 29. Gethyllis plicata, Jacg. Hort. Schoenbr. t. 80. 
Hypoxis luzulefolia, D.C. in Red. Lil. t. 260. Empodium pliea- 
tum, Salish. Gen. 43. Forbesia plicata and angustifolia, Eckl. 
Top. Verz. 4. 
Var. 8, Barberi (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 123) ; leaves as in the type, 
but peduncle longer, so that the ovary is protruded from the basal sheaths; 
beak of ovary much shorter, 4-1 in. long. 
Var. y, C. veratrifolia (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 123); leaves 1-2, 
lanceolate, 1-1} in. broad at the middle ; beak of the ovary 1-4 in. long. 
Hypozis plicata, Jacq. Collect. Suppl. 55; Ic. t. 367. H. veratrifolia, Willd. 
Sp. Plant. ii. 109. C. plicata B, Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 345. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Sieber, 124! Var. y, Zeyher, 1664 ! 
Coast Recto : hills near Cape Town, Thunberg! Pappe! Burchell, 8441! 
Uniondale Div. ; on a rocky hill near Groot River in ange Kloof, Burchell, 
4979 ! Stockenstrom, Scully, 198 ! 
CanTrat ReGton : Somerset Div.; shady places at the foot of Bosch Berg 
near Somerset East, 2500 ft., MacOwan, 1874! near Somerset East, Bolus, 
836! Var. 8, Somerset Div., Miss Bowker / near Hopetown, Mrs. Barber! 
Eastern Reation: Natal; Klip River, 3500-4500 ft., Sutherland! Var. B; 
! 
Inanda, Wood, 278 
