tarum, was, “ Cal. 0,corl. 6 petals, spreading, oblong, 
obtuse. Stamens: six, filaments subulate, erect: an- 
thers small, incumbent, 4-furrowed.  Pistil, germen 
obsoletely 3-cornered : style simple: stigma obtuse, 
3-cornered. Fruit an ovate, glabrous, 3-furrowed, 3- 
celled, 3-valved, capsule. Seed numerous, angular.” 
Under this character he and others have placed seve- 
ral species which have since been removed to other 
genera. In Kunth’s Enumeratio Plantarum, the name 
Anthericum appears as a synonym under some 5 or 6 
distinct genera. But the genuine species are ranged 
under two, Bulbine and Phalangium, those with beard- 
ed anthers being referred to the former, those with 
beardless ones (of which all the following are exam- 
ples) to the latter. The following is Kunth’s char- 
acter of Phalangium, somewhat abridged; “ Calyx, 6 
sepals corollaceous, persistent; the 3 exterior ones 
spreading, the interior ones sometimes broader. Sta- 
mens 6: filaments filiform, beardless: anthers 2-cell- 
ed, introrse, attached about the middle of the back. 
Ovary sessile, 3-celled : ovules in a double series hori- 
zontal, anatropous: style filiform: stigma thickish. 
Capsule 3-celled, 3-cornered, 3-valved, valves septi- 
ferous. Seeds few in each cell, angled, black, shin- 
ing, subscrobiculate ; testa erustaceous, fragile: em- 
bryo axile, curved, nearly as long as the albumen, 
radicle next the hilum.— Herbs, with fascicled roots, 
scapiform, simple or somewhat branched stems: 
leaves membranaceous, sheathing: flowers pedicelled ; 
pedicels bracteate, jointed above the base. 
From a comparison of these characters with the 
subjects figured in the 4 following plates it will be 
seen that, however different in general aspect, they 
all agree in the particulars noted in the written cha- 
racter, even the last, though so unlike the others, 
agrees in these particulars. I could have given figures 
of several other species but thought these enough to 
illustrate the genus. 
2036. PHALANGIUM TUBEROSUM (Kunth, Antheri- 
cum tuberosum, Roxb.), roots numerous, fleshy, each 
terminating in an oblong tuber : leaves radical, sword- 
shaped, undulated on the margin: scape round, naked, 
flowers panicled: ovary oblong, ovules numerous, 
style ascending. Flowers white. 
“A common plant in turfy soil, flowering during 
rainy weather in both spring and autumn. 
2037. PHALANGIUM ATTENUATUM (R. W.), roots 
fleshy, not (or rarely) tuberous: leaves all radical, 
sword-shaped, scarcely waved on the margin, long 
attenuated towards the point, membranous: scape 
round, naked, racemose, longer than the leaves: flow- 
ers numerous, 3-4 aggregated in the axils of the 
scariose bracts: ovary somewhat ovate, ovules nu- 
merous, style straight. Flowers white. 
Coimbatore, in cultivated and waste grounds and 
by hedge-rows, &c., flowering during rainy weather. 
This is nearly allied to the preceding, but quite 
distinet. 
2038. PHALANGIUM? OLIGOSPERMUM (R. W.), 
roots fleshy, tuberous: leaves radical, oblong lanceo- 
late, waved on the margin, acute: scape terete, erect, 
branched: branches racemose: ovary subglobose 3- 
celled, with 2 superposed ovules in each cell: style 
declining: capsule 3-celled, 3-seeded : seed globose, 
rough. 
Cahiers. flowering July and August, flowers 
white. 
I have added a mark of doubt to the generic name 
on account of the few-ovuled ovaries and the posi- 
tion of the ovules, superposed, not collateral. I doubt 
whether the difference is sufficient to justify its re- 
moval from the genus. 
2039. 了 HALANGIUM ? PARVIFLORUM (R. W.), roots 
numerous, fleshy, not tuberous: leaves linear lanceo- 
late, tapering towards the point: scapes several, 
axillary, slender, ascending, loosely flexuose: flowers 
small, 3-4 aggregated in the axils of the somewhat 
remote bracts, short 1601661160 : ovary 3-celled ; with 
2 superposed ovules in each: style simple: capsule 
3-celled ; cells 1-seeded: seed somewhat globose, con- 
cavely umbilicate below, rough: embryo curved. 
This is a common plant which I have gathered in 
Coimbatore and many other localities. As in the 
preceding I have attached a mark of doubt to the 
generic name, and perhaps with better reason, leav- 
ing the question to be solved at some future time. 
2040. LEDEBOURIA HYACINTHINA. (Roth.) 
Common on the sea coast and also often met with far 
inland. I have specimens collected in Coimbatore. 
This is a small herbaceous bulbous rooted plant with 
linear rather obtuse spreading leaves, the tips when 
they touch the ground readily rooting, usually mottled 
with brown spots. Scapesone or two, erect, racemose- 
` ly many-flowered towards the apex : flowers greenish 
with a tinge of purple, six-parted, lobes persistent, 
withering. Stamens 6 as long as the lobes of the 
perianth. Ovary 3-celled, 2 collateral ovules in each, 
pendulous from the middle of the cell: capsule 3- 
celled, 3-valved, 3-seeded. Seed globose: embryo 
rather large, enclosed in a copious albumen, radicle 
inferior.— The drawing was made from a dried spe- 
cimen and does not show the leaves as seen in the 
growing plant, that is spreading all round with the 
tips curved towards the ground. 
2041. BARNARDIA INDICA (R. W.), leaves lanceo- 
late, channeled towards the base, sub-acuminate at 
the point, strongly nerved: scape terete, racemose, 
longer than the leaves: flowers cernuous, afterwards 
drooping: stamens as long as the perianth, filaments 
dilated and shortly monodelphous at the base. 
Neilgherries, Western slopes near Nedawuttim, 
also Nagpore, Jerdon. 
This plant I have not seen growing. The draw- 
ing was taken from living specimens communicated 
by Mr. Jerdon, flowering in May. He has since then 
sent me others from Nagpore. 
HyroxIDILÆ. 
Of two genera referred to this order, Curculigo and 
Hypoxis, one is said to have the fruit baccate, the 
other capsular as their essential distinguishing marks. 
These characters, as regards the Indian species, I 
have not found sufficient to distinguish them, the fruit, 
at least in the dried plants, being the same in both, 
namely, an indehescent membranous capsule. I have 
therefore adopted another of more easy and certain 
application in practice. In Hyporis the limb of the 
calyx rests immediately on the ovary without any 
intervening tube; in Curculigo a long slender tube 
intervenes between them. In Hyporis the stigma is 
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