7S M0NANDR1A MONOGYXIA. Ghbha. 



into a very long, slender, incurred, grooved filament. An« 

 ther double, with two horns from each side. Getm beneath, 

 round, tubercled, one-celled, ovula parietal. Styh slender, 

 as long as the tube of the corol and filament, and lodged ina 

 groove therein. Stigma funnel-shaped. Pericarp ; 1 have 

 not found it come to maturity. The little bulbs found in the 

 axills of the lower bractes of the spike, readily vegetate, and 

 thus the plant is abundantly propagated. 



2. (J. buUnfira. R. 



Stems bulbiferou*. Leaves oblong. Racemes terminal, erect, 

 shorter than the leaves, bulbiferous. 

 Teling. Conda pooshpoo. 

 A native of the northern Circars. 



3. <«. orixensis. R. 



Leaves oblong. Panicle terminal. Anther naked. Capsule 

 \ ( rrucose. 



fa a native ofthe moist vallies in the northern Circars, and 

 flowers during v I *« - rainy season. 



Reels biennial. Stem* animal, bending obliquely to one 

 s i, I,., :| > in the Dane with most plants of the natural order, 

 about two or three feet long; lower part involved in a few 

 simple sheaths, above with the sheathing petioles of the leaves. 

 Leaves alternate, bifarious, very short petk>led, oblong, end- 

 ing in a tapering filiform point, entire, smooth, finely veined ; 

 from eight t<» ten inches long, and from two to four broad. 

 Petioles short. Sheaths opening on the side opposite to the 

 leaf. Patricks terminal, erect, oblong, thin, rigid. Flowers 

 sessile, small, d.cp orange yellow. Bractes solitary, one -flow- 

 ered, oval, falling. Calyx one-leaved, mouth three-toothed. 

 Corol; tube a little curved, widening gradually to the mouth, 

 twice the length of the calyx. Border double; exterior 

 three-parted ; upper division largt si, sub-erect, concave; the 

 other two interior, and ovate. Interior of two, smaller, oppo- 

 site, ovate lobes. Filament very long, much curved, base tu- 



