299 



(3) C. BEEVI8CAP1JM. (Bah.) 



Ident. Dalz. 1. c. p. 252. 



Spec. Chae. Tubers oblong, pendulous from a fibrous root: 

 leaves flat, ensiform, margins undulated, acuminated, attenuated 

 towards the base, striated, pale beneath. : scape round^ simple or 

 rarely branched, half the length of the leaves : flowers racemose, 

 twin : sepals oblong-aoute, reflexed in flowering : pedicels jointed 

 at the top : filaments papillose : capsule triquetrous : cells 1 — 3- 

 seeded. 



Malwan, flowering in July. 



(4) C. NiMMONn. (Dal%.J 



Ident. Dalz. 1. c. 



Spec. Cttah. Leaves flat, broad-lanceolate, long-attenuated 

 towards the base, very long, striated, shorter than the round scape : 

 branches of the scape from the axils of sheathing bracts, long, un- 

 divided : flowers twin, remote, drooping, racemose : 'sepals spreading, 

 exterior acute, inner ones obtuse : anthers and filaments papillose : 

 cells of the triquetrous capsule 1-seeded. 



Malwan. Ghauts opposite Bombay. 



(5) C. GLATjoirM. (Bah.) 



Ident. Dalz. 1. c. 



Spec. Chae. Boot a spherical depressed fibrous tuber : fibres 

 above the tuber vermiform : leaves recurved, lanceolate acuminate, 

 ' glaucous, striated, slightly folded, half the- length of the rigidly, 

 erect scape, which is clothed with sharp sheathing scales : flowers 

 twin, approximated, spreading : pedicels jointed above the middle : 

 anthers and filaments papillose : ovary triquetrous : cells 8-6vuled. 



Ghauts, rare. 



GEMJS XII. DIANELLA. 



Hexandria Monody nia. Sesei Syst: 



Berw. From Diana, the sylvan goddess, so called from the plants 

 growing in woods. 



"Gen. Chab. Perianth corollaceous, deeply 6-parted, deciduous, 

 leaflets oblong, equal: stamens 6, inserted at the base of the 

 perianth, fllaments geniculately bent inwards, Hneax-oblong, 2- 

 lobed at the apex, fixed at the back above the sagittately 2-cleft 

 base, erect, introrse : ovary free, sessile, globosely tricoccous : cells 

 in the shells 6 — 9, fixed to the inner angle, in two rows, suspended 



