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Iphigenia indica Kunth. ; Corm ^ to ^ inch diameter. 

 Stem slender 2 to 24 inches, leafy up to the flowers. 

 Leaves linear, 3 to 4 inches only. Perianth parts H to ^ 

 inch very narrowed, dark purple. Capsule J^ inch long, 

 but variable in size. t. 535. 



In grass. Nilgiris ■ on Coonoor hills, Kotagiri. Fyson 

 6338; Sedgwick 1485. 



Gen. Dist. Throughout India from the North-Western Frontier to 

 Burma and Ceylon, Australia, Philippines. 



EUCOMIS. 



Herbs with bulb and spike of flowers, crowned by a 

 tuft of bracts. 



Species about 5, all South African. 



Eucomis undulata iVilld ; Obviously a garden escape, 

 but apparently naturalized in Neutral Saddle on the 

 Pulneys, 5,300 feet. t. 536. 



COMMELINACE/E. 



See Vol. I p. 419 and add : 



Commcliana hirsuta Clarke; F.B.I, vi 371, II 7. 

 Leaves narrow- Capsule with one cell fertile, other two 

 cells empty and falling off. t. 537. Wight. Ic. t. 

 2067. 



Pulneys : on the higher downs. Fyson 4312. Nilgiris at 

 Neduvattam. Gamble 4878. 



Commelina glabra Clarke ; F.B.I. vi 371, II 8. Very 

 similar to the above, but glabrous, and grows with it in 

 the grass of the downs. Wight Ic. t. 2067. 



Pulneys : 7,500 feet. Fyson 4312. Nilgiris, Neduvattam. 

 Gamble 14868. 



The identificadons of my plants quoted in these last two 

 species were kindly made for me by Mr. C. C. Calder, who 

 supplied the references to Mr. Gamble's sheets. Wight first de- 

 scribed these as a distinct genus HETEROCARPUS, having 



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