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GENUS XI. CHLOKOPHYTUM. 



Hexandrla IKonog'ynia. Sex: Systs 



Beriv. From CMoros, green, and Phyton, a plant, alliidingto the 

 appearance of tlie plants. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx 6-sepaled, coroHaceous, regular, persistent: 

 sepals connate at tlie base, tkree outer ones 5-nerved, inner ones a 

 little longer, but narrower and thinner, 3-nerved : stamens 6, 

 hypogynous, filaments filiform, glabrous, anthers 2-ceUed, oblong, 

 emarginately 2-lobed at both ends, fixed at the back above the ba^, 

 dehiscing lengthways : ovary free, sessile, 3-comered : ovules many, 

 in two rows : style filiform, erect, stigma truncated, entire : cap- 

 sule roundish, 3-cornered, 3-lobed at the top, 3-celled, 3-valved: 

 seeds 2 — 5 in each cell, lenticular-reniform, very finely tubercled : 

 testa thin, crustaceous, adnate to fleshy albumen : embryo cylindric, 

 straight. — Herbs with fascicled roots : fibres usually fleshy : leaves 

 radical, linear or lanceolate, membranaceous or stiS: stem erect, 

 scapiform, simple or paniculately branched : flowers pedicelled, 

 solitary, twin, or collected in fascicles, bracteate, erect, white, 

 greenish externally : pedicels articulated in the middle. 



(1) C. ANTHEEICOIDEUM. (Bok.) 



Ident. Dalz. in Hook. Joum. Bot. II. 141. — Bomb. flor. 251. 



Spec. Chab. Boots many, tuberous : leaves radical, ensiform, 

 slightly folded, margins waved, shorter than the naked scape, with 

 2 to 3 very short, simple branches : flowers racemose, solitary or 

 twin : pedicels articulated near the base : filaments covered with 

 minute, papUlose vesicles : capsule triquetrous : seeds in each cell 

 5 to 6, compressed reniform : testa black. 



District of Malwan, flowering in July. 



(2) C. PAUvrFioscM. (Bal%.) 



Ident. Dalz. 1. c. 



Spec. Chah. Tubers oblong, pendulous from the fibres : leaves 

 erect, grass-like, linear-folded, striated, longer than the scape : 

 scape simple, few-flowered: flowers solitary or sometimes twin, 

 with acuminate bracts : filaments smooth : anthers green : pedicels 

 jointed in the middle, drooping in fruit : capsule sharply 3-lobed, 

 triangular : seeds in each cell 2 — 4. 



Eocky places near the sea, Malwan district, flowering in July. 



