448 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJE. [ Curculigo. 
Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2,11, 253. Rhizome thick, with 
densely clustered ev roots. Leaves radical, glabrous or nearly 80, 
e petioles 6 in. to near 1 ft. long with a broad sheathing base, the 
Miqnong de; efus Fascia Perianth us S A on a 
long, glabrous inside, epee almost to the ovary or united at the 
i ort ring. Filaments very short, the anthers 
oblong and erect, connivent in cone round the style, w ich is 
slender slightly dilated and minutely 3-lobed at the stigmatic end. 
i sule nearly globular, more or less succulent, softly hairy, about 
ines diameter. Seeds globular, with a blac k rugose crustaceous 
ras etes aoe eg. t. 770 
iit and other dium render it MaRS to separate it ceres] 
from the closely allied C. sumatrana, which is in every dir aw a true Curculigo. 
9. C. ensifolia, R. Br. Prod. 290. dor ip produced into a 
descending saline with fibrous roots, and m » loss covered with 
the scarious sheathing bases of old leaves. Lp fura 6 to 9 in. 
long and ł to } in. broad in the middle, but sometimes 1 to 1} ft. long 
and almost $ in. broad, tapering at both ends, with prominent nerves 
and more or m ss hairy n indir: the "base. Spikes short and 
erect at the b the scarious sheathing bracts subu- 
mated prs T: in. lon M most sessile, elongated, 
enclosed in the braet. Perianth-tube filiform, hairy, 1 to ? in. long 
abov ary; segments of the limb usually to 4 lines long, with 
ov 
lanceolate-pointed segments more or less: hairy outside. Filaments 
short ; anthers linear, the parallel cells diotly free at the base. Style 
column very short below the stigmas, which are as long as the anthers 
and connate or shortly free at the top. Capsule oblong, enclosed in 
the sheathing bract. Seeds several, the black testa elegantly striate 
but not tubereular.— €. stans, Labill. Sert. Austr. Caled. 18, t. 24; 
C. orchioides, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 585 and others, but not of Roxb. 
nce of Wales and other islands off Cape York, R. Brown ; Wide 
Queensland. Prin 
bay, Leichhardt; Rockingham bay, Dallachy; Fitzroy — C. Walter; Broad 
Stu 
Sound, Bowman; Keppel », Th ozet ; M bay, C. 
N. S. Wal Ka aa river, Beckle 
The species has a wide range in eastern jaa: ical Asia, for I can find no erus in 
cd cage specimens I have see Ens Australia, New as oie the Indian Archi- 
gal, China, and a e Asiatic ones have been generally refe i to 
Lv iodo Roxb. Corom. FI. i. ipi t. 13, and I had myself considered them as a 
small variety of that specics u a dé Hongkong Flora, p. 366 (where, however, I had by 
