412 AMARYLLIDACE^. 



Curculigo orchioidcs Gcertn. ; F.B.I, vi 279, II 5. 

 Rhizome stout, vertical : roots thick wrinkled. Dead 

 leaves very fibrous. Leaves 3 to 4 by J^ to M inch, 

 linear elliptic or lanceolate, deeply ribbed and folded, 

 with long scattered hairs. Flowers /^ to M inch across, 

 yellow, close down among the leaves ; ovary under- 

 ground, small. Solid stalk of perianth long, slender. 

 Capsule J^ inch, oblong one to four seeded, with slender 

 beak. Seeds ' /^ inch, deeply grooved in wavy lines, 

 black, shining.' Upper flowers male, with stamens 

 only. t. 260. Wight Ic, t. 2043. 



In damp places. Pulneys at Kodaikanal in Tinnevelly, 

 Marsh, etc. Bourne 39, 1005.* 



Ge7t. Dist. Sub-tropical Himalayas, Khasi hills, Western Ghats, Java, 

 Phillippine (in these last two areas with glabrous leaves). 



ZEPHYRANTHES. 142 11.* 



Bulbous herbs with tall leafless flowering stem (scape) 

 bearing one flower in the axil of a spathe. Perianth 

 funnel-shaped with short tube. Capsule sub-globose or 

 depressed three-lobed, loculicidally three-valved. Seeds 

 oblong, black. 



Species about 30 in the warmer parts of America from 

 Bolivia to Texas and Mexico, one also in western tropical 

 Africa. Several are cultivated and thus spread all over the 

 world. 



Zephyranthcs carinata Herb. ; II * 2. ' Pink Lily. ' 

 Scape about 12 inches. Leaves narrow, as long. 

 Flowers 2^ inches. Spathe ij^ inches, split open about 

 one-third. 



Nilgiris : Ootacamund, Coonoor, etc. ; common on road 

 sides as a garden escape. Fpo?i 2944. 



Z. tubispatha Herb. ; II ^ i. A smaller plant with spathe 

 split on both sides is common in gardens, and also apparently 

 naturalised, on the plains. 



