Dipcadi.'] LUiacecB. 291 



A. Hookeri, Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 339 (1864). 

 Baker in Journ. Bot. xii. 292. A. Wallichii, Kunth, var., Kegel, Mon. 

 146. C. P. 3659- 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 341. 



Bulb small, with many long fibrous roots, outer coats at 

 length fibrous, inner with long membranous sheaths up to 

 6 in. long, clasping the bases of the 1.; 1. 12-18 by |-J in., 

 narrowly linear, obtusely acuminate, rather fleshy, costate 

 and 9-1 i-veined ; scape 1-2 ft, subtrigonous; umbel globose, 

 laxly many-fld., spathes caudate, pedicels |-2 in., filiform; 

 perianth segm. \-\ in., narrowly linear from a broad base, 

 acuminate; stam. rather shorter than the per-segm., subequal» 

 anth. large; ov. globose, style not long, cells i-ovuled; fr. an 

 irregularly bursting thin-walled utricle or incompletely 3- 

 valved capsule ; seed solitary, globose or nearly so, testa 

 granular, black, opaque. 



Upper montane zone, in wet open places; rare. Pedurutalagala ; 

 Horton Plains, in several places ; Hakgala Hill. Fl. August; greenish- 

 white. 



Khasia hills in E. Bengal. 



8. DZPCADZ, Medic. 

 Scapigerous herbs, with tunicate bulbs; 1. narrowly linear; 

 fl. racemose, on a simple naked scape, erect or spreading, 

 bracteate; perianth deciduous, tube cylindric, 6-lobed, lobes 

 biseriate, 3 outer spreading, 3 inner erect, conniving; stam. 6, 

 inserted in the throat of the perianth, included, fil. short, anth. 

 linear, dorsifixed, slits introrse; ov. sessile or stipitate, 3-celled, 

 cells many-ovuled, style short, columnar, 3-furrowed, stigma 

 3-lobed, ovules anatropous; capsule tridymous, loculicidal, 

 few or many-seeded; seeds compressed, testa black. — Sp. 27; 

 6 in Fl. B. Ind. 



D. xnontanuxn, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 398 (1871). 

 Uropetahivi moittantim, Dalz., Thw. Enum. 443. C. P. 3856. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 346 (not given for Ceylon). 



Bulb not seen ; 1. 4-6 in., filiform, narrowed from the base 

 to the tip, \ in. broad at the base, deeply grooved above, 

 fleshy; scape 6-12 in., terete; raceme 6-12-fld., nodding; 

 bracts lanceolate, \-\ in., acuminate, longer or shorter than 

 the pedicels, scarious ; perianth \-\ in. long, lobes as long as 

 the subcampanulate tube, all with glandular tips; capsule 

 stipitate, 3-lobed, cells 3-4-seeded. 



Low country (.?) ; very rare. Lakkaigala ; Matala Eait, 1S64 (Beckett)t 

 Also in Peninsular India. 



