144 _ ‘'HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. - Curculigo. — 
Seeds few. Embryo cylindrical, radicle centripetal ; peris- 
perm arople. 
1.C. orchioides, Geert. Sem. 1. 68. Willd. 2. 105. Corom. 
pli. n. 18. 
Polygamous. Leaves linear-lanceolar, plaited ; apices 
viviparous. Corol long-pedicelled. 4 
Nela pana kelangu. Rheed. Mal. 12. t. 59. good. Or- — 
-chis amboinica major. Rumph, Amb. 6. t.54,f.1. 
- ‘Teling. Nanla, Tadee. 3 
A native of shady, uncultivated places about Samul- 7 
cota, though by no means common ; in my garden ite 
flowers all the year round. ee 
Root perennial, tuberous, with many fleshy, vermicu- i 
lar, fibres spreading in all directions. Stem none, Leaves — 
numerous, radical, petioled, narrow-lanceolar, nerved, . 
slender, when young there are a very few soft white hairs 
on them ; from six to eighteen inches long, and from half 
an inch to an inch broad, their apices are viviparous, 
whenever they rest on the ground for any length of time. 
Petiols channelled, below sheathing, so as to embrace 
those within. Racemes solitary, axillary, two-ranked, 
with their apices just appearing above the earth. Pedun- — 
cles compressed, clavate, about an inch long. Bractes 
one-flowered, below remote, above nearer, spathiform 
pointed, decreasing in length towards the top, so thatthe 
‘ apices of the whole are nearly horizontal, (corymbiform). 
Flowers pretty large, yellow, the one or two lowermost — 
are HERMAPHRODITE, above, all are male, ge : 
HerMaruropits. Calyx none. Corol one- petal 2 
the border elevated above the soil on a long, slender, vil- 
lous imperforated pedicel ; segments of the border six, lan- 
ceolate, spreading, hairy on the outside. Filaments six, 
very short, inserted on the base of the segments of the bor- 
der of the corol. Anthers linear, erect. Germ inferior, ses-_ 
sile, lanceolate, three-celled, with several ovula in each, 
