Jphigenta.'] LtliaceCB. 293 



ovules anatropous ; capsule globose, 3-lobed, seated on the 

 withered perianth, loculicidal, i -few-seeded ; testa black, 

 embryo in fleshy endosperm, — Sp, about 80; 2 in Fl. B. Ind. 



S. Indlca, Baker m Saund. Re/. Bot. iii, App. 12 (1870). 

 Ledebouria hyadnihina, Roth, Thw. Enum. 432. C. P. 2829. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 348. Wight, Ic. tt. 2040 {Ledeb. hyadnihifta) and 2041 

 {Barnardia indicd). Bot. Mag. t. 3226. 



Bulb ovoid or globose, i-\\ in. diam.; 1. few or many, 

 spreading, and often rooting at the tips, 3-6 in. by \ in., 

 variable, from oblong to lanceolate or oblanceolate, subacute, 

 narrowed into a sheathing petiole, rather fleshy, waved, 

 obtusely keeled, dull green above, and often blotched with 

 black, pale and glaucous beneath ; scape 2-6 in., rather stout, 

 raceme cylindric, 30-50-fld., bracts minute, pedicels \-\ in,, 

 decurved, fl. pendulous or cernuous ; perianth-segm. \ in. 

 long, linear, acute ; fil. as long as the perianth-segm., anth. 

 small, shortly oblong ; capsule 3-lobed, \ in. long and broad, 

 membranous, cells i-2-seeded ; seeds cuneiform or clavate. 



Dry region in sandy places, especially on the coast ; rather rare. 

 Trincomalie (Glenie); Puttalam (Nevill); Ratmale, E. Prov. ; Kirinde, 

 S. Prov. Fl. August; purplish or greenish-white. 



Also in Peninsular India and Abyssinia. 



II. ZPKZ6ENZA, Kiinth. 

 Erect herbs, rootstock a small corm ; stem simple, leafy ; 

 1, few, scattered, linear, upper bracteiform ; fl. small, erect, 

 solitary, or corymbosely racemed, perianth 6-partite, rotate, 

 segm. narrow, flat, clawed, caducous ; stam. 6, hypogynous, 

 erect, fil. very short, flattened, anth. oblong, versatile, dehiscing 

 sub-introrsely ; ov. sessile, 3-celled, cells many-ovuled, styles 3, 

 short, linear, recurved, introrsely stigmatose ; capsule loculi- 

 cidal, 3-celled, many-seeded ; seeds subglobose, testa thin, 

 brown, appressed, embryo minute, in fleshy endosperm. — 

 Sp. 5 ; 2 in Fl. B. Ind. 



X. indioa, A. Gray in Kunth, Enum. iv. 213 (1843). 



Thw. Enum. 339. C. P. 3680. 



Fl, B. Ind. vi. 357. Wall. PI. As. Rar. t. 259 {Anguillaria indica). 



Corm subglobose, J-| in. diam., narrowed into a short 

 neck, tunicate with pale brown sheaths ; stem 3-6 in., rigid, 

 strict, or flexuous ; 1. alt., 6-8 by \-\ in., narrowly linear or 

 linear-lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, veins obscure, base 

 sheathing ; fl, solitary, or 2-6 in a short terminal raceme, 

 erect; bracts linear or subulate, lower leafy, pedicel \-\ in.; 



