Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 65 



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

 yellow. Perianth lohes elliptic lanceolate backs hairy £ inch long or 

 less. Anthers sagittate. Capsule 3 valved clavate i--g- inch long. 

 Seeds black tuberculate. 



Baker Journ. Linn. Soc. XVII. 108, Kurz. Miq. Ann. Ludg. Bat. 

 IV. 178, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 277. 



H. minor, Don. Prodr. 53, Eoyle. 111. t. 91, f. 3. 



H. Franquevillei, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 586. 



Curculigo graminifolia, Nimmo. Grah. Cat. Bombay Plants 215. 

 Dalz. and Gibs. Bombay Flora 276. 



Pahang. In open grassy spots at Pulau Manis. Pahang River 

 (Ridley) ; Province Wellesley, Tasek Gelugur (Curtis). A very in- 

 conspicuous little plant growing among grass. Distrib. India, Java, 

 China and Japan. 



2. Curculigo, Gaertn. 



Stem tuberous or a coated corm. Leaves lanceolate plicate, petiol- 

 ed or linear flat. Scape usually short. Flowers yellow, often uni- 

 sexual, spicate racemed or subcapitate. Perianth base produced into 

 a solid stipes above the ovary and bearing a rotate limb of 6 subequal 

 lobes. Stamens ovary and seed of Hypoxis. Fruit baccate usually 

 beaked. 



Species about 12. 

 Perianth limb sessile on the ovary. 



Spikes nodding ... ... ... ... 1. C. recurvata. 



Perianth limb stipitate. 



Spikes erect with large stiff oblong bracts 2. C. villosa. 

 Spikes erect, bracts ovate lanceolate or 



lanceolate acuminate. 

 Flowers i inch across. Fruit oblong 1 



inch long ... 3. C.latifolia. 



Flowers 1 inch across. Fruit club-shaped 



2 inches long 4. C. megacarpa. 



1. C. RECURVATA, Dryand. Act. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, II. 253. 

 Rootstock short and stout. Leaves about 6 feet long, blade plicate 

 lanceolate acuminate 3 feet long, 6 inches wide. Scapes several, 

 peduncles about 2 inches long flattened covered with brown hair. 

 Raceme compact capitate usually decurved over 2 inches through. 

 Bracts lanceolate acuminate, lower ones 3 inches long i inch across 

 green edged and keeled brown with brown fur. Flowers bright yellow 

 pedicels t inch long stout, ovary flask-shaped furry, not beaked. Sepals 

 and petals oblong \ inch long, back of sepals and keel of petals furry. 

 Stamens 6 filaments very short curved. Anthers connivent yellow 



5 5 



