146 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Curculigo. 
short tube of the corol. Anthers linear, erect, adhering | 
to each other as in the syngenesious tribe. Germ obo- 
vate, hairy, three-celled, with many ovula in each, at- 
tached to the axis. Style longer than thestamens. Stigma 
dilated, subtrilobate. Capsule berried, inferior, ovate, 
the size of a large pea, soft, and clothed with hairs, not 
opening, three-celled with several seeds in each, arranged 
in two or three vertical rows, and attached to the axis, 
Seeds round, the size of a small grain of black pepper, and 
like it black, and wrinkled. Inéeguments two; exterior | 
hard, thick, red, and brittle; inner, a brown membranace- 
ous crust. Perisperm contorm to the seed, cartilaginous, 
pale blue. Embryo simple, cylindric, straight, penetrat- 
ing from the umbilicus more than half through the peris- 
perm, (centripetal.) _. 
3. C. sumatrana, R. : 
Leaves broad-lanceolar, plaited. Spike half hid in the 
earth. Corol pedicelled. Stigma three-lobed. 
Involucrum, Rumph. Amb. 6. 114. €. 53. 
A native of the mountains of Sumatra, and from thence — 
sent by Dr. Campbell to this ‘Garden in 1800, ‘where . 
blossoms in March and April. 
- Root stoloniferous, perennial. Stem none. Leaves radi- 
cal, few, petioled, lanceolar, recurved, plaited, above 
smooth, somewhat woody underneath, entire, about 
nine inches long, and about three broad. Petioles deep- oo 
ly channelled, from three to four inches long, smooth. 
Spikes strobiliform, mostly hid in the earth, the points of 
the bractes, and flowers only are visible. Bracies ovate- 
lanceolate, hairy, one-flowered, shorter than the pedicels 
of the corols. Flowers yellow, the lower hermaphrodite, 
while those that occupy the crown of the spike, and of 
course expand last, are generally male. Calyx none — 
Corol flat, elevated above the germ, on anerect, hairy — 
columnar pedicel; segments six, lanceolate, united at the 
