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ends, glabrous above, loosely hairy beneatb : scapes racemose and 

 with the pedicels and ovary densely covered with long coarse 

 brownish hairs : sepals ovate lanceolate, hairy on the back. 



Malabar. 



GENUS II. CUECULIGO. 



Hexandvia. IHonogyMkia. Sexi Systs 



Deriv. From Cii/rculio a weevil; the seeds have a process 

 resembling the beak of that animal. 



Gen. Chae. Perianth corolline, tube ventricose with the ovary, 

 persistent, connate with the style, limb 6-parted, flat, deciduous : 

 stamens 6, segments of the limb inserted low down : ovary inferior, 

 3-celled : ovules in 2 or more rows, amphitropal : style connate 

 with' the tube of the perianth, ffee at the apex: stigmas 3 : berry 

 apiculated with the tube of the perianth, by nbortion 1 — 2-seeded : 

 seeds few, distinguished by fleshy pulpous strophioles : lateral 

 umbilicus beak-shaped. — Pereimial herbs : roots tuberous, fleshy : 

 all the leaves radical, ensiform ; flowers radical or fascicled or sub- 

 spicate in a simple scape, enclosed in a convolute 1 -leaved mem- 

 branaceous spathe. 



(1) C. Maiabaeica. fR.W.J 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vi. and t. 2043. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves long-petioled, linear-lanceolate, tapering at 

 both ends, glabrous : scape racemose, the lower flowers only her- 

 maphrodite, all clothed with long soft pubescence : bracts ovate, 

 tapering from the base, subulate, pointed : anthers deeply sagittate, 

 stigma large, 3-lobed. 



Quilon. Mahableshwur. Common on the Ghauts. 



(2) C. BEEViroLiA. (Ait.) 



Ident. Ait. Hort. Kew.— Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 276. 

 Migrav. "Wight 1. c. t. 2043. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves sessile or short-petioled, narrow linear 

 lanceolate, sprinkled with long soft hairs : scape short : lower 

 flowers only hermaphrodite : tube long, slender, pubescent : bracts 

 ovate, lanceolate, and with the perianth clothed with long loose 

 hairs : lobes, of the limb of the perianth lanceolate : stigma deeply 

 3-lobed : flowers bright yeUow. 



ITeilgherries. Annamullays. "Western Ghauts. Flowering in 

 the rains. 



