294 Liliace^. [Gloriosa. 



perianth-segm. \-\ in., very narrow, acuminate, spreading or 

 recurved ; stam. shorter than the oblong ov. ; capsule erect, 

 but variable in size, \-i in. long, oblong or ovoid, obtuse at 

 both ends, valves thin ; seeds small. 



Dry country in grassy, sandy places ; rather common. Trincomalie 

 (Glenie); Chilaw; Kirinde ; Bintenne (Nevill); Nilgala; Anuradhapura. 

 Fl. December; reddish-purple. 



Also in India, Australia, and Philippine Is. 



12. GXiORIOSA, Linn. 

 An herbaceous, tall, glabrous, branching climber ; root- 

 stock of tuberous naked corms ; stem terete, leafy ; 1. scattered, 

 opp. or 3-nately whorled, ovate-lanceolate, cordate, nerves 

 parallel, tip ending in a spiral tendril ; fl. large, axillary, 

 solitary, pedicels reflexed ; perianth 6-partite, scgm. subequal, 

 narrow, spreading, or reflexed, persistent, waved, or crisped ; 

 stam. 6, hypogynous, fil. filiform, anth. linear, dorsifixed, 

 versatile, slits extrorse ; ov. 3-celled, cells many-ovuled, style 

 filiform, deflexed, 3-fid,. arms subulate, stigmatose introrsely ; 

 capsule large, coriaceous, septicidal ; seeds subglobose, testa 

 spongy, embryo cylindric in horny endosperm. — Sp. 3 ; i in 

 FL B. Ind. 



G. superba, L. Sp. PI. 305 (1753). Nlyang-ala, S. Karttl- 

 kaikilanka, xrentonti, T. 



Herm.Hort. Lugd.-Bat. Cat. 688; Mus. 28 and 34. Burm. Thes. 158. 

 Fl. Zeyl. n. 122. Moon, Cat. 25. Thw. Enum. 339. C. P. 2295. 



n. B. Ind. vi. 358. Rheede, Hort. Mai. vii. t. 57. Wight, Ic. t. 2047. 

 Bot. Reg. t. TT. 



Rootstock of arched, solid, fleshy, white, cylindric corms, 

 6-12 in. long, and i-ii in. diam., pointed at each end, bifur- 

 cately branched (or V-shaped), producing a new joint at the 

 end of each branch ; roots fibrous; stems 10-20 ft., given off 

 from the angle of the young corms (biennial, Roxb.), herba- 

 ceous ; 1. sessile, 6-8 in., variable in breadth, base rounded, 

 co-date, or amplexicaul ; pedicels 4-6 in., tip deflexed ; fl. 

 3-4 in. across, segm. linear-lanceolate, crisply waved ; fil. 2 in., 

 spreading, connective of anth. \ in. long, green ; style 2 in. 

 long ; capsule 2 in., linear-oblong. 



Low country, in bushy places ; common. Fl. Sept.-Jan. ; at first 

 greenish, passing through yellow, orange, and scarlet to crimson from 

 base to apex. 



Throughout India and in Burma, Malaya, Cochin-China, and Trop. 

 Africa. 



The character of the corms given above is from a note by Dr. Trimen, 

 who further says that they are slightly acrid. 



