Curculigo.~\ CLII. AMARTLLIDE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 279 



^ 3. C. crassifolia, HooJc. f. leaves long-petioled elliptic-lanceolate 

 thickly and rigidly coriaceous plicate glabrous above beneath white-tomen- 

 tose, scape flattened stout densely tomentose, flowers in a very large dense 

 oblong raceme, bracts glabrous or woolly, ovary oblong top silky, berry 

 oblong. Moliniera crassifolia, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 121. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, J. D. If. KHASIA MTS., alt. 5-5000 ft., J. D. H. fy T. T., 

 Mann, Clarke. 



Leaves 2-3 ft. by 3-6 in., strongly closely plicate; petiole 1 ft. stout. Scape 

 2-8 in.; raceme 3-4 in. ; bracts 1-1 in., very variable; lower flowers pedicelled. 

 Perianth segments ^ in., outer hairy or villous externally. Berry f in. long. Seeds 

 globose, black, granulate. 



4. C. Finlaysoniana, Wall. Gat. 5162 ; leaves petioled elliptic- 

 lanceolate plicate glabrous, scape very short villous, flowers in a lax erect 

 or inclined few or many fld. raceme, bracts linear, ovary fusiform or clavate 

 villous, berry oblong. ? 0. pauciflora, Moon Gat. PL Ceyl. Hypoxis tri- 

 chocarpa, Wight Ic. t. 2045 ; Thwaites Enum. 323 ; Kurz in Ann. Mus. Lugd. 

 Sat. iv. 178. H. lati folia, leptostachya, pauciflora and brachystachya, 

 Wight Ic. t. 2044 2046. Moliniera Finlaysoniana, Baker in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xvii. 121. 



TEAVANCOEE and MALABAE, Wight, &c. CEYLON ; central province, ascending 

 to 5000 ft. , 



Leaves 12-24 by 1-1^ in., thin, 5-nerved, finely acuminate, sometimes sparsely 

 hairy, petiole very slender. Scape short, slender ; pedicels 1-1 in., capillary ; 

 bracts filiform. Racemes with the upper flowers male. Perianth segments in. 

 long, of males shorter. Fruit |-f in., curved, few seeded, walls thin. Seeds ovoid- 

 oblong, finely deeply striate, black, shining. 



Var. linearifolia, Thtvaites I. c., has narrow almost linear leaves. 



Sect. II. CURCULIGO PROPER. Ovary narrowed into a long beak or 

 stipes supporting the perianth-limb. 



5. C. orchioideSj Gartn. Fruct. i. 63, 1. 13 ; polygamous, leaves long- 

 or short-petioled or subsessile lanceolate membranous plicate glabrous, 

 scape very short subterranean, flowers subsessile, bracts lanceolate mem- 

 branous, ovary small amongst the leaf bases, stipes of the perianth long 

 filiform, stigmas 3 erect separate, capsule, oblong. Baker in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xvii. 124; Roxb. Cor. PL i. I^TtlS; Ft. Ind. ii. 144; Thwaites 

 J?mm. 324; Grah. Gat. Bomb. PL 215; Bot. Mag. t. 1076; Wall. Cat. 

 5158 ; Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 585. C. malabarica, Wight Ic. t. 2043 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 276. C. brevifolia, Dry and. in Ait. Hort. Kew Ed. 

 2, ii. 253; Wight Ic. t. 2043 ; Grah. Gat. Bomb, PL 215; Dalz. & Gibs. I. c. 

 Hypoxis dulcis, Steud. PL Hohenack. No. 135. Gethyllis fusiformis, Serb. 

 Ham. Franquevillea major, Zoll. ex. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, 

 ii. ^.Eheede Hort. Mat. xii. t. 59. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Kumaon eastwards, ascending to 6000 ft. The 

 KHASIA HILLS, MUNNIPOEE ; and the WESTEEN GHATS rrom the Concan southward. 

 DISTEIB. Java. 



Roof stock tuberous or elongate, sometimes 1 ft. long and stout in proportion. 

 Leaves 6-18 by |-1 in., tips viviparous on reaching the ground ; petiole 6 in. or less. 

 Scape 1 in., clavate, fla^fenecl, hidden by the leaf- sheath s ; flowers distichous, 

 lowest 2-sexual-, the rest all male ; bracts lanceolate ; perianth segments ^-f in. 

 Ovary villous, the stipes and perianth alone epigaeous ; stigma 3-cleft; cells 6-8 

 ovuled. Capsujfr^ in., oblong, hypogeous, 1-4 seeded, beak slender ; septa spongy. 

 Seeds % in. longj oblong, deeply grooved in wavy lines, black, shining. Male fl. 

 with no ovary, style or stigma. 



