Belameanda.} IRIDE#, 1055 
ovules m nany, sane Nie: 2-seriate on the inner angles of each 
cell; style simple ; stigmas 3, simple or petaloid or variously cleft. 
Fruit a trigonous, loculicidal, 3-celled capsule. fas few or 
many, rarely solitary in each cell, globose, angular or flattened ; 
testa thin or coriaceous ; embryo embedded in the ibay albumen. 
Bulb tunicate; stem below the inflorescence simple, leafless ; flowers 
q few in the avis of narrow spathes, congested in the axil of a terminal 
- floral leaf 
sip 
Rhizome creeping ; stem leafy; leaves ensiform, equitant ; flowers in 
2-3-chotomously branched panicles; floral leaves under the primary 
branches green, spathaceous, under the upper branches scarious 
Belamcanda, 
948, Cipura Aubl. 
Herbs with a tunicate bulb; stem below the gecepoei 
slender, leafless ; radical leaves few, narrow, or wider and plica 
F lowers in narrow, fascicled spathes, sessile or shortly soe 
in the axil of a lon ng, terminal, floral leaf, each flower pedicelled, 
: and few or solitary in the axils of individual spathes. Perianth 
petaloid ; tube very short; roe ae broad, flat, clawed or 
not, the outer 3 spreading, inn smaller and more erect. 
| ie 3, adnate to base of anes pov segments ; filaments 
t » filiform; anthers Sosa Carpels 3, mae in a 
3- ‘celled Ovary ; ovules many in each nell cee filiform 
arms 
longer than anthers, petaloid at “theix tips or almost means 
entire or ciliolate. Fruit an ovoid or oblong, obtuse or truncate, 
loculicidally 8-valved drei exserted from the spathe. Seeds 
globose or narrowe 
| 2182. Creura panuposa Aubl. 
Lt C. Bengal; quite naturalised in thickets near Calcutta. 
A grassy herb, with a plicate floral leaf and white 
flowers; native of America. 
Sree 
949. Belamcanda Adans. 
Herbs With creeping rootstocks and erect, leafy stems; leaves 
orm, equitant. Flowers pedicelled, many in each spathe, in 
= sae branched inflorescence with green, spathe-like, 
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BSE 
1H7 
bract 
ay penrivi ‘tabe very short, rather wide; segments 6, 
