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3. HYPOXIS, Linn. ; El. 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 ; CooJce Fl Bomb, ii, 747. 

 H. minor, Don. Prod. 53 ; Eoyle 111. t. 91, f. 3. 



A small dioecious herb. Rootstock 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 J-J in. long, slightly hairy and 

 yellow, the outer ones green outside. Anthers sagittate. Ovary 

 clavate, J-J 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. DISTBIB.: 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. CURCUMGO, Goartn ; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 278. 

 Herbs with a tuberous rootstock, or a tunicate fibrous corm. 

 Leaves often large, lanceolate and plicate or linear and fiat. 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. Fruit a berry. Seeds subglobose, testa crustaceous, 

 black, often beaked. Species about 12, in tropical and sub-tropi- 

 cal regions. 



