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Sec. 1st. Flowers Regular. 



1. C. amoenum. R. 



Bulbs spherical. Leaves linearly taperin*, smooth, 

 margined, lenjjth of the inflorescence ; umbels from four to 

 six-flowered, regular, sessile. 



An elegant small species ; a native of Silhet where it 

 is called Gocinda by the natives. It flowers in April 

 and May, as well as now and then during the rains. 



Bulbs small, and nearly round. Stemless. Leaves from 

 six to twelve from each bulb, sparse, linear, toward the 

 apex tapering, straight, more or less channelled, particu- 

 larly toward the bise ; margins slightly scabrous ; from 

 one to two feet long and about an inch and a half broad. 

 Scape from the axills of the old leaves, solitary, about a 

 foot long, round, and smooth. Umbels from four to six- 

 flowered with some filamentaceous bodies mixed amongst 

 them. Spatlie two leaved. Flowers large, white, sessile. 

 Tube of the corol from three to four inches long, three- 

 cornered ; border of six equal, regularly disposed, linear- 

 lanceolar, recurved segments, which are about as long as 

 the tube ; apices acute, and alternately uncinate. Fila-^ 

 ments nearly as long as the border of the corol, ascend- 

 ing, red. Anthers linear. Germ inferior, sessile, oblong, 

 polished, seemingly three-celled ; ovula many, attached 

 to the two margins of the three-receptacles, which are 

 substantially attached to the walls of the ovarium and 

 only meet in the centre ; for on drying a transverse sec- 

 tion, they separate spontaneously from the margins to the 

 centre, and again each of the three has a fissure from the 

 inner angle toward the insertion. Style above the tube, 

 incurved, coloured like the filaments, and rather longer 

 than they. Stigma three-lobed. 



2. C. asiaticum. Willd. 2. 45. 



Root an oblong bulb with a fusiform crown. Stemless. 



