Macropodia.) CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEEX. 447 
The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in West Australia. It is reunited 
with Anigozanthos by F. Mueller, notwithstanding the remarkable differences in the 
ovary and fruit. à 
lique, nearly lin.long. Filaments almost as long as the lobes; anthers 
oblong-linear and tipped with a small gland-like appendage as in 
Anigozanthos flavidus and A. Preissii.—Anigozanthos fuliginosus, Hook. 
Bot. Mag. t. 4291. 
Mik Australia Moore river, Drummond; Hill river, Oldfield; Greenough flats, 
. Gray. 
the hilum produced into a hooked beak at the end of which the funicle 
1$ attached. 
obes papillose outside. Fruit succulent, ithin a sheathing 
bract. Needs few, the testa striate, the funicle usually dilated.—Herbs 
With a thick rhizome long flat or plicate-nerved radical leaves. 
spikes or heads, each one subtended by a broa 
than the ovary and fruit. 
The genus extends over tropical and Southern Africa and Asia, with one American 
species. Both the Australian species have a wide range over tropical Asia. 
Leaves broad. Flowers in a dense nodding head on a scape of 
several inches. Perianth tube scarcely any . - - + - +) * 1. C. recurvata. 
pn narrow. Flowers in an almost sessile spike. Perianth-tube 
iform . * . * Li . ee LI . LI E . * »* . LI . . 
2. C. ensifolia. 
