entire, more or less capitate, in Curculigo it is conspi- 
cuously three-lobed. Making use of these characters 
I have found no difficulty, with one exception, in re- 
ferring the following plants to their respective genera. 
The exception alluded to is Curculigo Sumatrana. In 
it the tube of the perianth is shorter than in the others, 
and the stigma is somewhat capitate, not lobed, as in 
the genuine species of the genus. Adding the dense 
capitate inflorescence to these, I am led to anticipate 
that this species will ultimately be removed, to form 
the type of an intermediate genus having the perianth 
of Curculigo, but much abbreviated, and the stigma of 
Hypoxis. The fruit and seed of ail are so much alike 
that I do not think distinctive characters can be ob- 
tained from these organs. 
A glance at the analysis of the following plates will 
explain my meaning by showing that the ovary of 
Curculigo is sessile in the axil of the bract, surmount- 
ed by a tube and flower, while in Hypozis it is pe- 
dicelled with the flower on its apex. The seed in 
both is oval, round at both ends, furrowed longitu- 
dinally, with a lateral very conspicuous attachment. 
The testa is bright, shining black, and fragile under 
‘the knife. -` 
2042. CURCULIGO SUMATRANA (Roxb., Loddiges), 
leaves long petioled, broad lanceolate narrowed at 
both ends, glabrous, plicately nerved: scape short, 
compact, cone-like: bracts ovato-lanceolate, about 
the length, or somewhat longer than the flowers, 
perianth wheel-shaped. 
Malacca, Griffith. 
Roxburgh is the original authority for the specific 
name and it was, I believe, from him that Loddiges 
obtained it, and it would appear, was the first, owing 
to the delay in the publication of the Roxburgian 
manuscripts, to publish it, whence, in Ræmer and 
Schultes’ Systema Vegetabilium, he is quoted as the 
authority for the name. 
Roxburgh quotes Rump. 6 tab. 53 for this plant, 
a very good figure of it. 
2043. CurcuLigo MALABARICA (R. W.), leaves 
long petioled, linear lanceolate tapering at both ends, 
glabrous: scape, racemose, the lower flowers only 
hermaphrodite : all clothed with long soft pubescence : 
bracts ovate, tapering from the base, subulate, pointed : 
anthers deeply sagittate, stigma large, 3-lobed. 
Quilon, Malabar. 
Roxburgh quotes Rheede Hort. Mal. 12-59, as 
* good" for his C. orchioides. I wasin hopes that it 
might turn out this species, but on referring to it, I 
Pe it represented a different plant and not in 
ower. 
2043. Curcurico BREVIFOLIA ? (Aiton, Hort. Kew), 
leaves sessile or short petioled, narrow linear lanceo- 
late, مسا‎ with long soft hairs: scape short; 
lower flowers only hermaphrodite ; tube long slender, 
pubescent : braets ovate, lanceolate and with the peri- 
anth clothed with long lax hairs: lobes of the limb 
of the perianth, lanceolate: stigma deeply three-lobed. 
Neilgherries, Anamally Hills, &c. 
A small low growing plant, the bright yellow flow- 
ers scarcely rising above the surface of the ground. 
Root perennial, somewhat fusiform. The drawing of 
this species was taken from the fresh plant, hence 
perhaps the flowers may appear large in proportion 
to the size of the plant as compared with those of the 
others, which, being taken from dried ones, probably 
smaller than they should be. 
2044. HyPOKIS LATIFOLIA ) W., Curculigo lat- 
ifolia? Moon), leaves long petioled, lanceolate, acute 
at both ends, glabrous, or sparingly sprinkled with 
hairs; scapes axillary, short peduncled, racemose ; 
lower flowers longer pedicelled, hermaphrodite ; upper 
ones male: bracts about the length of the pedicels, 
somewhat stem-clasping at the base, subulate pointed : 
sepals lanceolate acute, sparingly hairy on the back : 
style about the length of the stamens; stigma slightly 
3-winged: capsule oblong, claviform. 
Ceylon, flowering in March. Mr. Moon quotes for 
his Curculigo latifolia, Rump. 6 tab. 53, a plant very 
like this, but which is a true Curculigo, I therefore 
infer this to be the plant he meant, but referred it to 
a wrong genus. On this supposition I quote his name 
as a synonym to mine. He gives Colombo as the 
station. I do not know where I picked up my 
specimens. s 
2045. Hyroxıs LEPTOSTACHYA (R. W.), leaves 
long petioled, lanceolate, acute at both ends, glabrous 
above, sprinkled with longish lax hairs beneath: 
scapes short, slender, corymbose, lower flowers her- 
maphrodite, pedicels filiform, and, with the ovary and 
exterior sepals, hairy: sepals sub-obovate obtuse: 
capsules few-seeded. 
Malabar, flowering in June. 
The inflorescence in this species forms a perfect 
corymb, the pedicels which are very slender pro- 
gressively lengthening as they descend on the scape. 
2045. Hypoxts TRICHOCARPA (R. W.), leaves long 
petioled, lanceolate, acute at both ends, glabrous 
above, laxly pilose beneath: scapes racemose and 
with the pedicels and ovary densely covered with 
long coarse brownish hairs: sepals ovate lanceolate, 
hairy on the back. 
Malabar? The station is not stated, but I believe 
it is Malabar. This, though like the preceding, is 
easily distinguished by the inflorescence whieh is more 
compact, stouter in all its parts, and thiekly eovered 
with long coarse shaggy hair. 
2046. Hypoxis PAUCIFLORA (R. W., Curculigo pau- 
ciflora ? Moon), leaves longish petioled, narrow lan- 
ceolate, acute at both ends, glabrous, or sparingly 
sprinkled with short hairs: scape sparingly hairy, few- 
flowered: hermaphrodite flowers long pedicelled ; 
male ones shorter, slender, stipules narrow subulate : 
sepals ovate lanceolate acute, scarcely exceeding the 
stamens, glabrous, or very sparingly hairy on the 
back. 
Ceylon. There is no character to Moon’s plant, 
hence I merely conjecture that this may be his from 
the paucity of flowers. 
2046. Hyroxıs BRACHYSTACHYA (R. W.), leaves 
(comparatively) short petioled, ovato-lanceolate, acu- 
minate, sprinkled along the sides of the nerves with 
small tufts of short bristly hairs: scapes short and 
with the pedicels and ovary, coarsely hairy: bracts, 
minute, subulate: calyx lobes ovato-lanceolate acute 
exceeding the stamens, coarsely hairy on the back. 
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