748 CXXIX. AMARYLLIDACE.f:. 



or subcapitate, the lower flowers usually 2-sexual, the upper often male. 

 Periantli 6-partite, separated from the ovary by a short or loug solid 

 stipe bearing the rotate limb. Stamens 6, adnate to the base of the 

 perianth-lobes ; filaments short ; anthers linear, erect. Ovary inferior, 

 3-celled, with a short or long beak ; ovules 2 or more in each cell, with 

 a distinct, often long f unicle ; style short, columnar ; stigmas 3, oblong, 

 erect, appressed. Fruit an indehiscent berry. Seeds subglobose ; 

 testa crustaceous, black, often beaked. — DisxaiB. Species about 12, 

 tropical. 



1, Curculigo orchioides, GcerUi. Fract. v. 1 (1788) p. 63, t. 13. 

 Rootstock stout, short or elongate (sometimes 1 ft. long), with copious 

 fleshy root-fibres. Leaves sessile or petiolate, 6-18 by |-1 in., linear 

 or linear-lanceolate, membranous, plicate, glabrous or sparsely softly 

 hairy, the tips sometimes rooting and reaching the ground, base sheath- 

 ing. Scape very short, clavate, flattened, with the pedicels, bracts, and 

 ovary hidden among the leaf-sheaths. Flowers bright- yellow, distichous, 

 the lowest in the raceme 2-sexual, the upper male ; bracts lanceolate, 

 membranous. Perianth-segments |-| in. long, elliptic-oblong, acute, 

 hairy on the back, the stipes (the long slender beak of the ovary) very 

 slender, ^-1 in. long, which alone with the ])erianth appears above 

 ground. Stamens small ; filaments very short ; anthers linear. Ovary 

 lanceolate, the cells 6-8-ovulate ; stigma 3-cleft. Capsules | in. long, 

 liypogaeous, 1-4-seeded, with a slender beak ; septa spongy. Seeds 

 oblong ; testa deeply grooved in wavy lines, black, shining. Fl. B. I. v. 6, 

 p. 279; Grab. Cat. p. 215; Trim. Fl. Cevl. v. 4, p. 269; Roxb. Cor. 

 PI. V. 1 (1795) p. 14, t. 13; Bot. Mag. t. i076 ; Baker, in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. V. 17 (1880) p. 124; Woodr. in .Tourn. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 522 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1059 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 650. 

 Curculigo malaharica, Wight, Icon. v. 6 (1853) p. 22, t. 2043, fig. 1 ; 

 Dalz, & Gibs. p. 276. Curculiqo brevifolia, Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 

 ed. 2, V. 2 (1811) p. 2.53; Wight, icon. t. 2043, fig. 2; Grab. Cat. 

 p. 215 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 276. 



Konkan: Lawl; S. Konkan, Nimmo ex Graham. Deccxn: Mahahleshwar, Graha»i, 

 Dahell 1^ Gibson, H. M. Birdwood. Kanara: Law\ — Disteib. India (Bengal, Assam, 

 W. Peninsula) ; Java. 



Carcaluio recurvata, Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, v. 2 (1811) 

 p. 253. Leaves large, 2-3 ft. by 3-6 in., lanceolate, plicate ; petiole 

 1 ft. long ; flowers yellow, | in. across, in heads 2-4 in. in diam. 

 Occasionally grown in gardens, a native of the Tropical Himalaya, 

 Bengal, Birma, Malay Islands, China, and Australia. FL B. I. v. 6, 

 p. 278; Bot. Reg. t.'770; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 522 ; Prain, Heng. PI. p. 1059. 



3. CRINUM, Linn. 



Herbs with large tunicated bulbs, tlio bulbs often produced into a long 

 or short neck. Leaves numerous, elongate, lorate or onsiform. Scape 

 solid. Flowers large, umbellate ; bracts 2, spatlie-like ; hracteoles 

 linear. Perianth funnel- or salver-shaped ; tube long, straight or 

 incurved; lobes 6, Jinear-lauceolate or oblong, spreading or conniving. 



