1058 BENGAL PLANTS. [Furerea. 
leaves large, thick and fleshy, densely clustered at the top of 
stem, with spiny tip and entire or spinous-serrate edges. Flowers | 
solitary or 2-3-nately fascicled on a large, paniculately branched, 
nolan seape; bracts small. Perianth subrotate; tube very 
short, 6-partite almost to the base; lobes oblong-oval, equal, 
spreading. Stamens 6, adnate to base of and shorter than 
perianth-lobes; filaments thickened below the middle, apices 
shortly subulate; anthers dorsifixed, their bases shortly 2-lobed. 
Carpels 3, connate in an oblong, 3-locular ovary, often narrowed 
to a beak above; ovules many, 2-seriate in each loculus; style 
columnar, thickened below the middle with 3 prominent angles; 
stigma small, faintly 3-lobed, ciliolate. Fruit an oblong or ovoid, 
3-cornered, loculicidally 3-valved capsule. Seeds many, flattened. 
Fruit often replaced by viviparous bulbils. 
2185. Furcra@a GicaNtEA Vent.; E. D. F. 749. 
Tirhut; not infrequent as a hedge plant. 
A large, short-stemmed shrub, with tufted, fleshy 
leaves with spinous tips, and unarmed or sparingly 
armed edges. 
952. Hypoxis Linn. 
Herbs with a tuberous rootstock or a tunicate, membranous, or 
fibrous corm ; leaves narrow, radical, strongly nerved. Flowers 
ary or racemose or umbellate ; bracts small linear, or obso- 
rin Porianth rotate, persistent, 6- partite, sessile on the top of 
the inferior ovary. Stamens 6, adnate to base of and shorter than 
perianth-segments; filaments short; anthers erect, dorsifixed. 
Carpels 3, connate in an inferior, 3-celled ovary; ‘peales many, 
Seeds subglobose ; testa crustaceous, shining, beaked at the tip. 
$ AUREA Lour.; F. B. I. vi. 277. 
Chota Nagpur. 
A small, dicecious herb, with black, tubercled seeds. 
953. Curculigo Gaertn. 
Herbs, sometimes large, with a tuberous rootstock or a tunicates 
reticulate-fibrous corm; leaves often large, lanceolate and plicate, 
or linear and flat. Flowers often 1-sexual, spicate, racemose 
