273 CLII. AMARYLLIDE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) \Hypoxis. 



anthers sagittate. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 108 ; Kurz in Miq. Ann. 

 Mus. Lugd. Bat. iv. 178. H. minor, Don Prodr. 53 ; Royle III. t. 91, f. 3. 

 H. Franquevillei, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 586. H. curculigoides, Wall. 

 Cat. 5164. Curculigo graminifolia, Nimmo in Grah. Gat. Bomb. PI. 215 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 276. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Kashmir eastwards, ascending to 7000 ft. in 

 Sikkim. KHASIA HILLS, BENGAL, BEHAR and BURM.A, and in the Western Ghats 

 from the Concan southward. (Not in Ceylon). DISTEIB. Java, China, Japan. 



Dioecious. Rootstock globose, or elongate and erect, crowned with fibrous 

 remains of old leaves. Leaves 4-14 by T V~i in- 5 subcoriaceous, keeled. Scape 

 1-4 in., filiform, hairy ; bracts setaceous. Ovary clavate. Perianth-lobes - | in., 

 elliptic-lanceolate, yellow, outer green on the back. Capsule y in., clavate, at 

 length 3-valved, crowned with the erect perianth-lobes, walls thin. Seeds black, 

 tuberculate. 



2. CURCULIGO, G-xrtn. 



Root took tuberous, or a coated corm. Leaves lanceolate and plaited, 

 or linear and flat. Scape short or long ; flowers often unisexual, spicate 

 or racemed or subcapitate. Perianth usually produced above the ovary as 

 a solid stipes, bearing the rotate limb. Stamens ovary and seeds of Hypoxis. 

 Fruit indehiscent, usually more or less beaked. Species about 12, 

 tropical. 



Sect I. MOLINIERA. Perianth limb sessile or very shortly stipitate 

 above the ovary. 



1. C. recurvata, Dnjan'd. in Ait. Hort. Kew Ed. 2, ii. 253; leaves 

 long-petioled lanceolate plicate glabrous or with the nerves beneath hairy, 

 scapes many flattened villous, flowers in a decurved subcapitate raceme, 

 ovary turbinate, berry globose hairy. Bot. Reg. t. 770 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 

 145 ; Benth. Fl, Austral, vi. 448 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Sat. iii. 585 ; WalL 

 Cat. 5159. C. villosa, Wall. Cat. 5163 B. Moliniera recurvata, Herbert 

 Amaryllid. 84 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 120 ; Jfurz in Ann. Mus. 

 Lugd. Bat. iv. 175. M. plicata, Colla, Hort. Ripp. App. ii. 333, t. 18. M. 

 capitulata, Herbert 1. c. Leucojum capitulatum, Lour. Fl. Cochin. 199. 

 Hypoxis Saarpata, Herb. Ham. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA j from Nepal eastwards. BENGAL, CHITTAGONG and 

 BURMA. CEYLON ; at Saffragam. DISTRIB. M;ilay Islands, S. China, Australia. 



Rootstock tuberous. Leaves very variable, 2-3 ft. by 3-6 in., recurved, narrowed 

 into a channelled petiole 12 ft., villous below, glabrous above. Scapes 39 in., stout 

 or slender, bracts spathaceous, lanceolate, villous; heads of flowers 2-4 in. diam., 

 villous ; flowers pedicelled. Ovary 5 in., villous ; bracts 1-1| in. ; cells about 

 10-ovuled. Perianth about f in. diam., outer segments villous on the back. Fila- 

 ments very short ; anthers cohering. Berry 5 J in. diam. Stigmas sub 3-lobed, 

 shining. Seeds black, testa deeply closely grooved. 



2. C.gracilis, Wall. Cat. 5760; leaves long-petioled lanceolate plicate 

 glabrous, scapes many flattened tomentose, flowers in a decurved dense 

 elongate raceme, ovary oblong tip narrowed, berry oblong ?. Moliniera 

 gracilis, Kurz in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iv. 177 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xvii. 120. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Nejal, Wallich, eastward:?. 



Habit, &c., of C. recurvata, of which it is probably a form, but more slender, 

 with the ovary oblong and the inflorescence elongate. Wallich's specimens have 

 leaves 8-12 by -1 in., short woolly scapes, few-fld. loose racemes, and flowers i in. 

 diam. SikKim specimens have stoutly petioled leaves 2-j ft. by 4^ in., and a robust 

 scape 6-12 in. The var. Jamesoni, Baker 1. c. 121; with leaves rigidly coriaceous 

 flowers subsessile in a dense globose head I should refer to recurvata. 



