246° AMARYLLIDACEE. [ Hypoxis. 
3. HYPOXIS, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 277. 
Herbs with a tuberous rootstock, or a tunicate membranous or 
fibrous corm. Leaves radical, narrow, strongly nerved. Flowers 
solitary, or racemed, or in umbels. Perianth rotate, 6-partite, 
sessile on the top of the ovary and persistent. -Stamens 6, adnate to 
the base of and shorter than the perianth-segments, filaments 
short; anthers erect, dorsifixed. Ovary 3-celled; style short, 
columnar ; stigmas 3, erect, stout, distinct or connate ; ovules 
2-seriate in each cell. Fruit a globose or oblong capsule, opening 
by 3 valves or circumscissilely. Seeds subglobose ; testa _crusta- 
ceous, shining, beaked at the tip.—Species about 50, chiefly in 
S. Africa. 
H. aurea, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 200; F. B. I. vi, 277 ; Prain 
Beng. Pl.- 1058: Collett Fl. Siml. 516 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ti, 747. 
H. minor, Don. Prod. 52 ; Royle Ill. t. 91, f. 3. 
A small dicecious herb. footstock subglobose or elongate, crowned © 
with the fibrous remains of the old leaves. Leaves 6-12, subcoriaceous, 
keeled, 4-14 in. long, narrowly linear. Scapes 1-4, filiform, or 
. 2-flowered, subglabrous or thinly clothed with pale-brown hairs; 
bracts setaceous. Perianth-segments }-1 in. long, slightly hairy and 
yellow, the outer ones green outside. Anthers sagittate. Ovary 
clavate, }$-} in. long, clothed with short shining golden-brown 
hairs. Capsules with thin walls, ultimately 3-valved, crowned with _ 
the erect per-segments. Seeds black, finely tuberculate. 
Abundant within the area of this flora along the Sub-Himalayan tracts 
of Pilibhit and N. Oudh; also in Bundelkhand.—Disrriz.: Outer 
Himalaya from Kashmir to Sikkim up to 7,000 ft., and south- 
wards through the hilly parts of Peninsular India ; extending to Java, 
China, Japan and the Philippines. 
4. CURCULIG), Gertn; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 278. 
Herbs with a tuberous rootstock, or a tunicate fibrous corm. 
Leaves often large, lanceolate and plicate or linear and flat. Flowers 
often 1-sexual, the lower flowers usually 2-sexual, spicate racemose 
or subcapitate. Perianth 6-partite, usually produced above the 
ovary as a solid stipe and bearing the rotate limb. Stamens 6, 
adnate to the base of the perianth-lobes, filaments short ; anthers 
linear, erect. Fruita berry. Seeds subglobose, testa crustaceous, © 
black, often beaked. Species about 12, in tropical and sub-tropi- 
cal regions. 
