1056 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Belamcanda, 
oblong, spreading, subequal. Stamens 3, inserted at base of 
ar- 
numerous; style filiform, with elongated arms, their tips reniform, 
stigmatic. Fruit an obovoid, membranous, loculicidal capsule, 
the valves 3, sats leaving the seed-bearing axis free and per- 
sistent. Seeds subglobose ; testa lax, shining, fleshy within 
2183, BELAMCANDA CHINENSIS Leman; F. B. I. vi. 277. Morea 
chinensis F. I. i. 170. 
In patding i in “all the provinces. 
A herb, with creeping rootstock and erect, leafy stems. 
Beng. Dasbaha, dasbichandi. 
Order CXXXII. AMARYLLIDACEZ. 
Perennial herbs, rarely undershrubs or shrubs ; rootstock 4 
bulb, tuber, or corm, rarely an erect stock. Leaves radical, few 
herbaceous, the outer under the umbel 1-3, rarely many, involu- 
crate; occasionally the inflorescence racemose or paniculate with 
scattered bracts. Perianth regular or irregular, 2-seriate, 6-lobed 
or -partite ; tube long, short, or 0, sometimes with a corona on the 
Stamens 6, adnate to bases of perianth-segments, rarely 
epigynous; filaments free or connate ; anthers erect or versatile. 
arpels 3, connate in an inferior, 3-celled ovary; ovules many, 
anatropous, 2-seriate on inner angles of cells; style slender ; 
stigma simple or 3- iat Fruit inferior, usually a loculi ulicidal 
ely rarely fleshy and bursting irregularly. Seeds few 
; albumen fleshy, enclosing the small embryo. 
Leaves large, thick, and fleshy, densely clustered at the top of a 100 oot- 
stock ora short, simple stem, spiny at the tip and usually armed along the 
pe lon pe 
Inflorescence simple spicate, or compound thyrsoid; stamens longer 
than perianth ; filaments filiform or flattened at base; style filiform 
Agave. 
Inflorescence laxly paniculate ; stamens shorter than perianth ; fila- 
ments thickened at base ; style thickened in the middle...... Furcrea 
Leaves thin and flat or, if somewhat fleshy, unarmed :— 
