64 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



3. M. VIOLASCENS, Ridl. Trans. Linn. Soc. I.e. 384, Journ. Roy. 

 As. Soc. I.e. 183. Stems 8 to 10 feet tall rather slender. Leaves 10 

 inches across green above glaucous beneath transversely ribbed. Spike 

 erect or nearly so bud apex acute. Bracts lanceolate narrow acute 

 violet or white tinted violet, 9 inches wide often persisting and reflexed 

 after the flowers have fallen rachis pubescent. Male flowers 6 in a 

 row in each bract, about 1 inch long white. Calyx oblong, with 5 

 teeth, the outer 2 longest. Corolla I inch long boat-shaped. Stamens 

 linear. Female flowers 6 in one row. Fruit green 3 inches long 1 

 inch thick angled. Seeds i inch long cylindric truncate not angled. 

 Baker I.e. 257. 



Common growing with M. Malaccensis, Pahang, Tahan Woods 

 (Ridley 2394) ; Sungei Ujong : Linsum (Ridley) ; Selangor : Kwala 

 Lumpur .(common) : Perak : Larut Hills. Distrib. Borneo. 



V. AMARYLLIDEAE. 



Herbs with ;i short stem, or a bulb. Leaves radical herbaceous. 

 Scapes naked. Perianth superior tube long or short, or absent, lobes 

 6 subequal and similar. Stamens 6 adnate at the base of the lobes 

 rarely epigynous, filaments slender free or connate, anthers linear erect 

 or versatile. Ovary 3 celled, ovules many 2-seriate in the inner angle 

 of the cells anatropous. Style short or long, stigma simple or trind. 

 Fruit capsular or baccate, loculicidal. Seeds few or many, albumen 

 fleshy embryo small. 



Tribe 1. HYPOXIDEAE. Rootstock thick, 

 not bulbous. Flowers spicate or racemose. 

 Ovary not beaked. Fruit capsular ... ••• 1. Hypoxis. 

 Ovary beaked. Fruit baccate 2. Curculiqo. 



Tribe 2. Amarylleae. Rootstock bul- 

 bous. Flowers in umbells. 

 Leaves linear or lorate. Perianth lobes linear 3. Crinum. 



1. Hypoxis, L. 



Stem tuberous. Leaves narrow basal, strongly nerved. Flowers 

 yellow solitary racemed or umbllate. Perianth rotate sessile on the 

 top of the ovary persistent. Stamens with short filaments, anthers erect 

 dorsifixed. Style short columnar. Stigmas 3 stout, separate or connate. 

 Capsule 3 valved or circumsciss below the top, not beaked. Seeds sub- 

 globose, testa crustaceous. 



Species about 50. Chiefly African, also Australian. 



II. aurea, Lour. Fl. Cochin-Chin. 200. A small hairy or villous 

 herb with a cylindric or globose stem covered with fibres. Leaves 

 linear acuminate (> inches long \ inch wide ribbed glabrous. Scapes 

 slender hairy h to 4 inches long. Flowers 1 or 2 only on a scape, 



