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AMARYLLIDACE7E. 
— 3. Brevifolia. Dryand. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. — 4. 
Ensifolia. Brown Prod. 290. Australia. — 5. Stans. 
Schultes. — 6. Latifolia. Bot. Mag. 46. 2034. Bot. 
Reg. 9. 754. Flowers villous externally. 
The ovules of latifolia are said to be round ; if the seeds 
should prove not to have the extraordinary beaked umbilicus 
of the genus, it can scarcely be a Curculigo; but it may have 
been overlooked in the ovules or not yet developed. We 
have no account of its seed. Gaertner describes the fruit of 
C. orchioides to have as many cells as there maybe seeds, one 
above another ; but such are perhaps rather membranous 
envelopements. I have not perceived them, nor have I ever 
found in the capsule an upper seed, as stated by him, without 
the prominent umbilicus. 
5. Molineria. — Stalk curved at the top, capitulate, many- 
flowered ; germen nodding, bracteate ; tube adhering 
to the style, short ; limb regular, patent ; filaments 
short, inserted at the mouth of the tube ; anthers 
fasciculate, erect (said to be monadelphous or united), 
style straight ; stigma dilated ; seeds red, wrinkled, 
round ; outer integument brittle ; inner brown, crus- 
taceous. I have taken the name f rom Colla Hort. Rip. 
who has applied it to a plant allied to Curculigo, with a 
character resting on points of no value, except that on 
inspection of the ovules he found no appendage ; meaning , 
I suppose, no rostrate umbilicus. I may, therefore, 
assume that his plant was one of the species with round 
seeds, which can scarcely belong to Curculigo. ( Leaves 
long, petiolated. These plants have the outside of the 
germen and perianth hairy.') 
1. Recurvata. Bot. Reg. 9. 770. — 2. Sumatrana. Lodd. 
Bot. Cab. 443. — 3. Capitulata. Leucojum capitula- 
tum. R. et Schultes. Lour. C. Ch. 246. Leaves wide, 
petiolated, plicate ; petiole a foot long ; head of 
flowers large, roundish ; scape short, radical, reflex; 
spathes, or rather bractes, 1 -flowered; segments 
adhering together at the base, thickened at the 
point, golden within, brown and villous without; 
stamens six, short, equal ; stigma simple. It seems 
strange that a plant so described should have been 
mistaken for a Leucojum. 
6. Hypoxis. — Germen erect ; perianth deeply divided with 
