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AMAEYLLlDACEiE. 
[Crinum. 
established in Mauritius and Eodriguez. It has a short woody trunk, 
crowned by a rosette of 40-50 oblanceolate rigidly coriaceous sub- 
carnose bright green usually spineless leaves 4-5 feet long, from which 
arises a scape 20-30 feet high, forming in the upper half a lax panicle 
with rotate greenish-white flowers 2 inches broad with oblong segments, 
spreading from the top of a cylindrical ovary and stamens shorter than 
the limb with filaments strumose at the middle. Var. Willemetiana, 
Eoemer, is a Mauritian form, with a few spines on the border of the 
lower part of the leaf. Aloes vert. 
Order XCYI. HYPOXIDACEiE. 
Perianth superior ; divisions 6, regular, free or united above the 
ovary, the three outer mostly hairy on the outside. Stamens 6, in- 
cluded, epigynous or perigynous ; filaments subulate, short ; anthers 
basifixed or versatile. Ovary inferior, 3-celled ; placentation axile ; 
ovules crowded ; style cylindrical ; stigmas 3, free or consolidated. 
Fruit capsular or baccate. Seeds turgid, copiously albuminous, with a 
crustaceous testa.- -Perennial or annual herbs, with narrow persistent 
dry mostly pilose leaves and yellow stellate flowers variously arranged. 
Distrib. Tropical and warm temperate regions, especially of the 
southern hemisphere. Species 60-70. 
Perianth with a long tube above the ovary 1. Curculigo. 
Perianth cleft down to the ovary 2. Hypoxis. 
1. CURCULIGrOj Gsertn. 
Perianth with a long tube above the ovary. Stamens inserted at 
the throat of the tube ; filaments short, subulate ; anthers basifixed or 
obscurely versatile. Ovary 3-celled ; stigmas free or consolidated. 
Fruit baccate. — Annual or perennial herbs, with the habit of Hypoxis , 
the flowers sometimes solitary, sometimes densely clustered. Distrib. 
Tropics of the Old World, Cape, and one species American. Species 
10 - 12 . 
1. C. seychellensis, Bojer , Hort. Maar. 342 (name only). Eoot- 
stock a perennial tuber. Petiole 1-lf foot long, armed with spreading 
prickles ; blade cuneate, coriaceous, strongly ribbed, bifid or simple, 
1-5 feet long. Flowers 50 or more in a dense nearly sessile head ; 
bracts 2-3 in. long, lanceolate, densely pilose. Ovary cylindrical, densely 
pilose ; perianth tube filiform, pilose, 2-3 in. long ; limb in., with 
lanceolate yellow segments, nearly naked on the outside. Stamens half 
as long as the limb ; anthers linear, basifixed. Stigmas consolidated. 
Seychelles, frequent in damp shady forests in several of the islands. The strong 
fibrous leaves are used for wrapping plugs of tobacco. Endemic. Coco matron. 
