68 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



or oblong spreading, subequal and similar. Stamens with slender fila- 

 ments adnate to the throat of the perianth tube. Anthers linear dorsi- 

 fixed. Style filiform. Stigma minute, ovules usually few. Fruit 

 subglobosc membranous or coriaceous bursting irregularly. Seeds few 

 large rounded, testa thick. Albumen copious. Species 60. Tropics 

 generally. 



Bulb very large, leaves 3-6 feet, 5 to 6 



inches across ••• ... ... ... 1. C. asiaticum. 



Bulb smaller leaves 2-3 feet by 3 inches 



across ... ... ... ... ... 2. C. defixum. 



1. C. ASIATICUM, L. Sp. PI. 419 (in part). Rootstock globose very 

 large, neck stout 2 feet long 3 inches through. Leaves lanceolate dark 

 green broad 2-6 feet long 5-6 inches wide thin. Scapes several stout 

 3-4 feet long. Involucral bracts ovate lanceolate 4 inches long 1-3 

 inches wide. Flowers numerous pedicels erect |-li inch long. Perianth 

 tube green 3-6 inches long, lobes linear white Si inches long f inch 

 wide. Staments 2£ inches long base white above dark pink. Anthers 

 fuscous 1 inch long. Style filiform dark red. Fruit sub-globose with 

 a leathery pericarp. Seeds large unequal 1 or usually 2. 



Kunth. Enum. V. 547, Baker Handl. Amaryllidae 75, Herb. Ama- 

 ryllid. 243, Bot. Mag. t. 1073, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 280, Trim. 

 Fl. Ceyl. IV. 271. 



C. toxicarium, Roxb. Fl. Ind. IT. 134, Wight. Ic. t. 2021, 2022, 

 Lodd. Bot. Cal). t. 669. 



Singapore : Changi ; Sungei Buluh (Ridley 3600a) ; Johor : Tanafa 

 Runto (Ridley) ; Pahang : Pekan (Ridley 1659) ; Malacca : Pulau Besar 

 (Maingay) Kundur (Griffith) ; Perak : Dindings (Ridley) ; Penang : Batu 

 Feringi (Curtis 1274) ; Tringanu : (Ridley) Distrib. India, Ceylon, 

 Malaya. 



Common on the seashore growing in sand all round our coasts. 

 Native name "Tembaga Suasa." 



Hooker I.e. p. 284, suggests that Curtis' plant above-quoted may be 

 C. pedunculatum, Br. of Australia, and states that this species differs 

 from C. asiaticum only in the long pedicelled flowers, and "according 

 to the Bot. Reg. in the elongated rootstock. ' The common plant here 

 has always long pedicelled flowers and an elongate rootstock. 



2. C. defixum, Ker. Quart. Journ. Sci. ami Arts III. 105. Root- 

 stock globose, nock 3-4 inches long. Leaves linear 2 feet long 4 inches 

 wide. Scape stout 2 foot long slightly flattened green involucral 

 la-acts deltoid ovate acuminate 1> inch long. Flowers erect about 12. 

 Perianth tube 6 inches long slender greenish, ovary 1 inch long, 

 lobes narrow linear acute reflexed white 3 inches long i inch wide. 

 Filaments as long red. Anthers linear fuscous. Stylo rather longer 



