CurcuUgo.] clii. amaryllide^. (J. D. Hooker.) 279 



_ 3. C. crasslfolia, Soo/k. f. ; leaves long-petioled elliptic-lanceolate 

 thickly and rigidly coriaceous plicate glabrous above beneath white-tomen- 

 tose, scape flattened stout densely tomentose, flowers in a very large dense 

 oblong raceme, bracts glabrous or woolly, ovary oblong top silky, berry 

 oblong. Moliniera crassifolia. Baker in Journ. Linn. 8oc._ xvii. 121. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, J. D. H. Khasia Mxs., alt. 5-5000 ft., J. D. H. &■ T.T., 

 Mann, Clarke. 



ieaws 2-3 ft. by 3-6 in., strongly closely plicate; petiole 1 ft. stout. Scape 

 2-8 in. ; raceme 3-4 in. ; bracts \-\\ in., very variable ; lower flowers pedicelled. 

 Perianth segments \ in., outer hairy or villous exterually. Berry \ in. long. Seeds 

 globose, black, granulate. 



4. C. Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cat. 6162; leaves petioled elliptic- 

 lanceolate plicate glabrous, scape very short villous, flowers in a lax erect 

 or inclined few or many fld. raceme, bracts linear, ovary fusiform or clavate 

 villous, berry oblong. ? 0. pauciflora, Moon Oat. PI. Geyl. Hypoxis tri- 

 chooarpa, Wight Ic. t. 2045 ; Thwaites Enum. 323 ; Kurz in Ann. Mus. Lugd. 

 Bat. iv. 178. H. latifolia, leptostachya, pauciflora and brachystachya, 

 Wight Ic. t. 2044 — 2046. Moliniera Finlaysoniana, Baker in Journ. Linn. 



' Soc. xvii. 121. 



Teavanooeb and Maiaeae, Wight, &c. Cetion ; central province, ascending 

 to 5000 ft. 



Zeaves 12-24 by 1-1^ in., thin, 5-nerved, finely acuminate, sometimes sparsely 

 hairy, petiole very slender. Scape short, slender ; pedicels 1-lJ in., capillary ; 

 bracts filiform. Sacemes with the upper flowers male. Perianth segments J in. 

 long, of males shorter. Fruit i-f in., curved, few seeded, walls thin. Seeds ovoid- 

 oblong, finely deeply striate, black, shining. 



Var. linearifolia, Thwaites I. i.., has narrow almost linear leaves. 



Sect. II. Ctjrculigo peopek. Ovary narrowed into a long beak or 

 stipes supporting the perianth-limb. 



5. C. orcUoides, Gcertn. Fruct. i. 63, 1. 13 ; polygamous, leaves long- 

 er short-petioled or subsesaile. lanceolate membranous plicate glabrous, 

 sca.pe very short subterranean, flowers subsessile, bracts lanceolate mem- 

 branous, ovary small amongst the leaf bases, stipes of the perianth long 

 filiform, stigmas 3 erect separate, capsule oblong. Baker in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xvii. 124 ; Boxb. Cor. PI. i. 14, t. 13 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 144 ; Thwaites 

 Fnwm.324,; Grah. Gat. Bomh. PI. 215; Bot. Mag. t. 1076; Wall. Cat. 

 5158 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 585. 0. malabarica, Wight Ic. t. 2043 ; 

 Bah. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 276. 0. brevifolia. Dry and. in Ait. Ilm-t. Kew Ed. 

 2, ii. 253 ; Wight Ic. t. 2043 ; Grah. Gat. Bomb. PL 215 ; Dalz. & Gibs. I. c. 

 Hypoxis dulcis, Steud. PI. SohenacJc. No. 135. Gethyllis fusiformis, Serb. 

 Sa/m. Franquevillea major, Zoll. ex. Kv/rz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, 

 ii. 84. — Rheede Sort. Mai. xii. t. 59. 



SuBTEOPlcAl HiMAlATA ; from Kumaon eastwards, ascending to 6000 ft. The 

 Keasia HitiyS, MuNNipoEE ; and the Wesiben Ghats from the Concan southward. 

 — DiSTElB. Java. 



BootstocTc tuberous or elongate, sometimes 1 ft. long and stout in proportion. 

 Leaves 6-18 by ^-1 in., tips viviparous on reaching the ground ; petiole 6 in. or less. 

 Sciipe 1 in., clavate, flattened, hidden by tCe leaf-sheaths ; flowers distichous, 

 lowest 2-sexual, the rest all male ; bracts lanceolate ; perianth segments ^-| in. 

 0«arj/ villous, the stipes and perianth alone epigaeous ; stigma 3-cleft; cells 6-8 

 ovuled. Capsule \ in., oblong, hypogeous, 1-4 seeded, beak slender ; septa spongy. 

 Seeds J in. long, oblong, deeply grooved in wavy lines, black, shining. Male fl. 

 with no ovary, style or stigma. 



