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Zephyranthes, AMARYLLIDACE2. 1059 
basal lobes, Carpels 3, connate in a 3-locular, beaked ovary, beak 
short or long; ovules in each cell 2 or more, with a distinct, often 
long funiculus ; style short, columnar; stigmas 3, oblong, erect, 
adpressed. Fruit a somewhat succulent, indehiscent berry. 
Seeds subglobose ; testa crustaceous, black, often beaked. Lower 
flowers usually 2-sexual, wit upper flowers often male. 
Perianth-limb sessile or nearly so on the top of the ovary; large, stout 
herbs, with flowers in subcapitate racemes on scapes projecting beyond 
the leaf-sheaths recurvata 
Perianth-limb at the apex of the long, slender beak of the ovary ; slender 
herbs, with flowers in distichous spikes on scapes hidden by the leat- 
sheaths orchioides 
2187. CuRcULIGO RECURVATA Dryand.; F. I. ii. 145; F. B. 1 
vi. 278. 
N. Bengal, Duars; Chota Nagpur, Sirguja. 
A large herb; leaves over 1°5 feet long. 
2188. CurcuLIco orcHrIompEs Gaertn.; F. I. ii. 144; F. B. I. 
vi. 279; E. D 2 
Tirhut; Behar; W. and C. Bengal; Chota Nagpur. 
A slender herb ; leaves *5-1°5 in. long. Hind. Mushali ; 
Beng. Tala muli; Uriya Talmuli. 
954. Zephyranthes Herb. 
; Herbs with tunicate bulbs ; leaves few, linear or lorate, appear- 
ing with or after the flowers. Flower solitary, pedicelled or rarely 
sessile within an entire or 2-fid, spathe-like bract at the top of a 
long, fistular scape. Perianth funnel-shaped, straight or somewhat 
declinate ; tube short or long, dilated upwards; lobes 6, equal or 
Somewhat unequal, narrowed at the base, suberect above. Stamens 
6, adnate to perianth-throat, equal or 8 somewhat shorter than 
the others, erect or somewhat declinate ; anthers linear, dorsifixed. 
Carpels 3, connate in a 3-celled ovary; ovules many, 2-seriate in 
fach loculus ; style filiform, usually declinate above; stigma more 
or less 8-fd. Fruit a subglobose or depressed capsule, ultimately 
3-dymous or 3-lobed, loculicidally 8-valved. Seeds oblong, angular 
or flattened ; testa black, : 
