278 CLii. AMARYLLiDEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ift/poxis. 



anthers sagittate. Saker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 108 ; Kurz in Miq. Ann. 

 Mus. Imgd. Bat. iv. 178. H. minor, Bon Prodr. 53 ; Boyle III. t. 91, f. .S. 

 H. ITranqnevillei, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 586. H. curculigoides, Wall. 

 Gat. 5164. Curouligo graminifolia, Nimmo in Grah. Gat. Bomb. PI. 216 ; 

 Bak. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 276. 



SuBTEOPicAi Himalaya; from Kashmir eastwards, ascending to 7000 ft. in 

 Sikkim. Khasia Hills, Bengal, Behab and Buema, and in the Western Ghats 

 from the Concan southward. (Not in Ceylon). — Disteib. Java, China, Japan. 



Dicecious. Sootstock globose, or elongate and erect, crowned with fibrous 

 remains of old leaves. Leaves 4-14 by -^-^ in., subcoriaceous, keeled. Scape 

 1-1 in., filiform , hairy ; bracts setaceous. Ovary clavate. Perianth-lobes i—i in., 

 elliptic-lanceolate, yellow, outer green on the back. Capsule i-J in., clavate, at 

 length S-valved, crowned with the erect perianth-lobes, walls thin. Seeds black, 

 tubercnlate. 



2. CURCVI.XGO, G-airtn. 



Root^tock tuberous, or a coated corm. Leaves lanceolate and plaited, 

 or linear and flat. Scape short or long ; flowers often unisexual, spioate 

 or racemed or suboapitate. Perianth usually produced above the ovary as 

 a solid stipes, bearing the rotate limb. Stamens ovary and seeds of Hypoxis. 

 Fruit indehiscent, usually more or less beaked. — Species about 12, 

 tropical. 



Sect I. MoLiNiEKA. Perianth limb sessile or very shortly stipitate 

 above the ovary. 



1. C. recvirxaXa,,.Brijand. in Ait. fibr*. Jeu) Ed. 2, ii. 263 ; leaves 

 long-petioled lanceolate plicate glabrous or with the nerves beneath hairy, 

 scapes many flattened villous, flowers in a decurved subcapitate raceme, 

 ovary turbinate, berry globose hairy. Bot. Beg. t. 770 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 

 146 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. 448 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 585 ; Wall. 

 Gat. 5159. 0. villosa. Wall. Cat. 5163 B. Moliniera recui-vata, Herbert 

 Amaryllid. 84 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 120 ; ^urz in Ann. Mus. 

 Lugd. Bat. iv. 176. M. plicata, Colla, Sort. Uipp. App. ii. 333, t. 18. m! 

 capitnlata, Herbert I. e. Leucojum capitulatum, Lour. Fl. Cochin. 199. 

 Hypoxis Saarpata, Herb. Ham. 



Teopical Himalaya ; from Nepal eastwards. Bengal, Chittagong and 

 Buema. Ceylon ; at Saffragam.— Disteib. Miilay Islands, S. China, Australia. 



RooUtock tuberous. Leaves very variable, 2-3 ft. by 3-6 in., recurved, narrowed 

 into a channelled petiole 1-2 ft., villous below, glabrous above. Scapes 3-9 in., stout 

 or slender, bracts spathaceous, lanceolate, villous ; heads of flowers 2-4 in. diam., 

 villous; flowers pedicelled. Ovary i-J in., villous ; bracts l-lj in. ; cells about 

 10-ovuled. Perianth about % in. diam., outer segments villous on the back. Mia- 

 ments very short ; anthers cohering. Serri/ i-^ in. diam. Stigmas sub 3-lobed, 

 shining. Seeds black, testa deeply closely grooved. 



2. C. gracilis, Wall. Cat. 5760; leaves long-petioled lanceolate plicate 

 glabrous, scapes many flattened tomentose, flowers in a decurved dense 

 elongate raceme, ovary oblong tip narrowed, berry oblong ?. Moliniera 



fracilis, Kurz in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iv. 177 ; Baker in Journ Linn 

 'oc. xvii. 120. 

 Teopical Himalaya j from Nepal, Wallich, eastwards. 



Habit, &c., of 0. recurvata, of which it is probably a, form, but more slender 

 with the ovary oblong and the inflorescence elongate. Wallich's specimens have' 

 leaves 8-12 by J-1 in., short woolly scapes, few-fld. loose racemes, and flowers i in. 

 diam. Sikkim specimens have stoutly petioled leaves 2^ ft. by 4^ in., and a robust 

 scape 6-12 in. The var. Jamesoni, Baker 1. u. 121; with leaves rigidly coriaceous 

 flowers subsessile in a dense globose head I should refer to recurvata. 



