Curculige. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 145 
attached to the axis. Style very short. Stigma large, 
tapering, apex more or less three-cleft. Capsule, when 
a germ, it shows three-cells, with the rudiments of six or 
eight seeds in each, bit when the seeds are ripe, the num- 
ber is only from one to four in the whole, and they seem 
as if in a transparent, fleshy, one-celled capsule, separat- 
ed by a spongy substance. Seeds from one to four, shin- 
ing black, beaked. Male peduncle, corol, and stamens 
as in the hermaphrodite ; no germ, style, or stigma. 
Noite. Itisa plant of no great beauty, nor are its flow- 
ers fragrant ; variety alone must sprommend it to a place 
in the Flower Garden, 
2. C. recurvata. R. 
Leaves lanceolar, plaited. Raceme globular, recurved. 
Corol sessile, rotate. ene bacciform, round, many- 
seeded. 
It is a native of the eastern frontier of Seacai Siva 
thence received into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta,where 
it blossoms, and ripens its seed the whole year round. 
. Root perennial, consisting of many fleshy fibres proceed- 
ing from a tuberous, stoloniferous body. Stem none. Leaves 
Yadical, petioled, lanceolar, recurved, plaited, entire, 
Smooth on both sides, from one to three feet long, and 
from two to six inches broad. Petioles deeply channelled, 
®ne-third, or one-fourth the length of the leaves. Scapes 
axillary, about as long as the petioles, compressed, 
Nillous, apex recurved... Racemes solitary, strobiliform 
drooping. Bractes spathiform, solitary, singly one-flower- 
ed, villous, tapering, about as long as the pedicells and 
flowers taken together. Flowers hermaphrodite, yellow, 
€xpanding three quarters of aninch, Calyx none. Corol. 
Superior, sessile, rotate, six-parted. Segments lanceolate, 
Spreading, villous on the outside, smooth and yellow, 
on the inner persistent, Filament short, inserted on the 
