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red. Fruit subglobose crowned with the persistent tube 1 i inch through 

 purplish. Seeds flat ovoid elliptic green. 



Herb. Amaryllid. 255, Kunth. Enum. V. 562. Bot. Mag. t. 2208, 

 Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 362, Baker Handl. Amaryllid. 76, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. VI. 281, Trim. Fl. Ceyl. VI. 271. G. asiaticum, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. 

 172. (not Linn). Amaryllis vivipara, Lam. Encyc. I. 123. 



Pahang : Damp fields near the river at Kenchong. Distrib. India 

 Ceylon, Siam, Borneo. 



VI. BUEMANNIACEAE. 



Small herbs often saprophytic. Stem usually short rarely tall. 

 Leaves narrow linear green or reduced to scales white. Perianth 

 superior tubular, with 3 sepals and 3 petals. Stamens 6 adnate to the 

 tube, filaments very short. Anthers oblong 2 celled inflexed within 

 the tube very various in form. Ovary obconic ovules very numerous. 

 Capsule obconic opening by a lid. Seed minute not winged. Distribu- 

 tion all tropical countries. 



§ 1. Non-saprophytic (vircntcs). 



Leaves linear green ... ... ••• 1. Burmannia. § 1. 



§ 2. Saprophytic. Leaves reduced to scales. 



Stamens 3, ovary 3 locular ... ... 1. Burmannia. § 2. 



Stamens 3, ovary 1 locular ... ... 2. Gymnosiphon. 



Stamens 6. Petals present ••• ••• 3. Thismia. 



Stamens 6. Sepals connate by apices. 



Petals absent ... ... ... ... 4. Bagnisia. 



1. Burmannia. 



Saprophytic or non-saprophytic. Stem ascending or tuberous 

 subterranean. Leaves linear acuminate green or reduced to white 

 scales. Flowers solitary or racemose, blue or white. Perianth tube 

 thin often broadly winged urn-shaped. Petals and sepals very small 

 ovate. Stamens 3, filaments very short. Anthers reniform opening 

 laterally. Style slender trifid. Stigmas heart-shaped. Capsule ©blong 

 or globose 3 celled, seeds fusiform. Species about 20. Tropical Asia, 

 Africa and South America. 



§ 1. Non-saprophytic (virentes). 



Stem elongate with scattered leaves. Flowers 



few nodding ... ... ... ... IB longifolia. 



Stem short leaves crowded at base. Flowers 



distichous secund racemose ... ••■ 2. B. disticha. 



Stem short, leaves crowded at base. Flowers 



1 to 6 crowded at the apex ••• ••• 3. B. coslestis. 



