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often changed into fleshy small bulbs. — Bulb-bearing herbs with 

 scapes : bulb tunicated, columnar or spherical : leaves in many 

 rows : scape solid, umbellately many-flowered : spathe 2-leaved : 

 flowers pedicelled or sessile, intermixed with linear ramentaceous 

 bracts. 



(1) C. KoxBiTHGHii. (Bah.) 

 Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 275. 



C. Asiaticum, Eosol. flor. Ind. II. 127 (not Willd). C. 



defixum, Ser. 



Engrm. Bot. Mag. t. 2208. 



Spec. Chae. Eoot bulbous with a fusiform crown : stem none : 

 leaves radical, linear concave, without a keel : margins smooth : 

 scapes as long as the leaves, a little compressed, smooth : spathe 

 with filiform bracts among the flowers : flowers large, white, sub- 

 sessile : berry sub-globose. 



Banks of Deccan rivers. CoromandeL Concans. Flowering in 

 October. - 



(2) C. AsiATicrTM. fldnn.J 



Ident. Lion. sp. 419. Dalz. 1. c. 



Syn. C. toxicarium, Roxb. I. o. C. brevifolium, Roxb. I. c. 

 C. bracteatum, Willd. C. decliaatum, Serh. Amaryll. 



Engrm. Bot. Mag. t. 1073.— Bot. Keg. t. 179.— Bot. Mag. t. 

 2231.— Wight's Icon. t. 2021— 22. 



Spec. Chae. Caulescent or stemless : leaves linear-lanceolate^ 

 very smooth : margins entire, striated beneath, 3 — 4-feet long : 

 scaped axillary, shorter than the leaves, a little compressed : flowers 

 numerous, 12 — 50 in an nmbel, white, not fragrant : berries 

 roundish. 



Concans. Lower Bengal. Silhet. ELowering nearly all the 

 year. 



(3) C. ATTOTrsiTnii. fBoxb.J 

 Ident. Eoxb. flor. Ind. II. 136.— Dalz. L o. 

 Syn. C. canaliculatum, Roxb. I. o. 



Engrm. Bot. Mag. t. 2397.— Bot. Keg. t. 679. 



Spec. Chae. Bulb columnar, mostly above ground: leaves 

 lanceolate, channelled, linearly tapering, 3 — 6-feet long: scapes 

 lateral from the axils of the outermost leaves and nearly as long : 

 umbels of 30 — 40 pedicelled flowers, white or rosy, fragrant. 



Banks of Gutpurba and Mulpurba rivers. 



