Cure III i}i o.^ A i)i a 1 -yllii tece. 269 



I. CURCV£iZGO, Gaertn. 



Rootstock tuberous ; 1. lanceolate, plaited ; scape short or 



long; fl. spicate or racemed, sometimes unisexual; perianth 



superior, tube adnate to the ov., produced above it or not, 



limb rotate, 6-partite; stam. 6, inserted on the bases of the per.- 



segm.; fil. short, anth. linear, erect; ov. 3-celled, beaked or 



not, cells 2- or more-ovuled, style columnar, short, stigmas 3, 



erect, oblong; ovules anatropous, funicle elongate; fr. inde- 



hiscent, pericarp thin, few or many-seeded ; seeds subglobose, 



testa black, crustaceous, shortly beaked at the hilum. — Sp. 



about 12; 6 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Per-segm. sessile on the top of the ov. . . i. C. Finlaysoniana. 

 Per-segm. on the elongate slender top of the ov. 2. C. orchioides. 



1. C. Finlaysoniana,^ Wall. Cat. n. 5 162 (1828). IHa-biutal, S. 



Curciilie^o aiigustifolia and C. paiicijiora., Moon, Cat. 25. Hypoxis 

 latifolia, H . paucijlora^ and H. brachystachya, Wight, Ic. vi. 22. H. tricJio- 

 ca7'pa., Wight, Thw. Enum. 323. Molincria Finlaysoniana., Baker in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xvii. 121. C. P. 2288, 2290. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 278. Wight, Ic. tt. 2044, 5, and 6. 



Rootstock fusiform; 1. long-petioled, 12-24 t)\' i-ij in., 

 linear to oval-lanceolate, finel\- acuminate, glabrous or 

 sparsely hair}^ membranous, 5-veined, petiole 2-8 in., very 

 slender, sheaths short; scape 1-3 in. long, slender, silkily 

 villous; fl. in a short, erect, or inclined fe\\' or many-fld. 

 raceme; pedicels i-i| in., spreading, capillary, villous, bracts 

 filiform, upper fl. male; per.-segm. sessile on the top of the 

 ov., V; in. long (of male fl. shorter) ovate-oblong, acuminate, 

 dorsally silky; ov. clavate, villous; fr. ^-f in., oblong or 

 pyriform, curved, few-seeded, pericarp thin; seeds ovoid- 

 oblong, testa finely deeply striate, black shining. 

 Var. /3, linearifolia, Thw. 1. c. 

 L. 12-20 by To-(i in- 

 Moist low country up to 3000 ft. ; rather common. Fl. March, October ; 

 bright yellow. 



Also in S. India. 



C. recurvata., Dryand, Waya-pol, S., is a very common garden plant. 

 Moon (Cat. 25) gives it from 'Saffragam' (Sabaragamawa), and it is 

 C. P. 3210; but it has no claims to be treated as native. 



2. C. orchioides, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 63 (1788). Kin-biutal, S. 

 Nilappanai, 7'. 



C. lafifolia, Moon, Cat. 25 (non Dryand). Thw. Enum. 324. C. P. 

 2289. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 279. W^ight, Ic. t. 204 (C brevifolia^. 



* G. Finlayson was in Ceylon in 1817-18, and ascended Adam b i-'cak 

 in the former year. Surgeon and naturalist to the Siam Mission, 1821 ; 

 died 1823. 



