86. LILIACFM. 



Chlorophytum arundinaceum, Baler, is a pretty herb with 

 fleshy roots, a tuft of lanceolate linear leaves about 6-9 v long and a simple 

 or slightly panicled raceme 8-18" high of pretty white flowers with sub- 

 erect and spreading perianth leaves \" long. Common on fire-lines and 

 in light forest in Singbhum ami Santal Parganahs ; Jaspur and Sirguja, 

 Wood Probably occurs throughout the area- Fls. April-June. 



Scilla indica, Baker, is a small herb with scaly bulbs which art 

 said to have the properties of the Scilla or Squill of the British Pharma 

 copceia (Stimulant expectorant, diuretic and cardiac tonic). It is not 

 common. 



Urginea indica, Kunlh, is a common herb with globose-ovoid 

 necked bulbs l^-li'' diam. of connate fleshy scales without smell. It has 

 long very slender scapes which rise above the ground in the hut season 

 before any leaves appear, and bear distant oblong flowers %-$" long on 

 pedicels whioh are atjirst erect, then droop when the flowers open and 

 again become erect and elongate to lj'' in fruit. 



Perianth leaves greenish with a brown Btreak and pubescent at the 

 tips. 



The bulb is said to have the same properties as the last, and also to 

 be used for sizing cloth. 



Iphiocenia indica, Kuntlu Chutia chandbol, 8., has a globose corm 

 | v diam. with a neck 1-2'' long, flexuuus stems and reddish or purplish 

 small erect flowers with clawed, spreading and reflexed linear-subulate 

 perianth leaves. Manbhum, Catmg. 



The flowers are said to yield a red dye- 



Fam. 87. AMARYLLIDACEJ!. 



Herbs with a perennial tuberous or bulbous underground 

 item, rarely with a short stout erect stem. Flowers usually 

 large and showy (small in Curculigo and Hypoxis) usually 

 on a leafless scape and enclosed in bud by spathaceous bracts, 

 sometimes (^A-gave) in an immense panicle. Fls. regular or 

 slightly zygomorphic as in the Liliaceee, except that the 

 ovary is quite inferior and the corolla is often furnished with 

 a petaloid corona. Fruit capsular or indehiscent, not 

 baccate. 



A. Bulbous plants with radical not plicate leaves 

 and an unbelliform inflorescence enclosed 

 by two or more spathaoeous bracts on a 

 leafless scape. 



