fragile: interius brunneu 
770 
~ CURCULIGO recurvata, 
Sard Recurved-leaved Curculigo. : slay 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNLd. i 
Nat. ord. AsPHODELER. Brown prod. 1. 274. Div. Genera inter As~ 
PHODELEAS et AMARYLLIDEAS media. 1% 
CURCULIGO. Supra vol. 4, fol. 345. i 
C. recurvata, foliis ellipticis recurvis, capitulo pedunculato cernuo, tubo 
floris brevissimo. Dryander in Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 2. 253. vis 
Rhizoma tuberosum, soboliferum perenne, fibris multiplicibus. carnosis. 
Fol. radicalia petiolata lanceolata recurvata plicata glabra, 1-8 pedalia la- 
titudine 2-6 unciali, petiolis lamind triplo 4-plove brevioribus cum canaliculo 
profundo. ~ Scapi, axillares compresst villosi longitudine circiter. petiolorum 
supra recurvati. Capitula cernua: bracter singulares, uniflore, villose, 
acuminate, florem subequantes: flores lutet, diametro uncie per quadrantem 
minores, pedicellat. Cor. ‘persistens, 6-partita, hypocrateriformis laciniis 
lanceolatis, extus villosis, intis glabris. | Fil. brevi corolle tubo inserta: 
anthe, lineares monadelphe vel.Compositarum more conjuncte. Germ. ob- 
ovatum, pilosum, 3 loc., polyspermum, ovulis axi annexis: stylus staminibus 
altior: stigma dilatatum, subtrilobum. Caps. baccata, triloc. evalvis pube 
molli tecta ovalis magnitudine pisi majoris. Semina in quoque loculo plura 
axi bi-triseriatim affixa, globosa, colore rugositate et mole Piperis nigri 
grano viz absimilia: integumentum duplex, exterius durum crassum rubrunt 
embranaceum crustaceum: albumen ceruleo- 
pallens semint conforme cartilagineum : embryo centripetus, cylindricus, rec- 
tus de umbilico albuminis medium pertranseuns. 
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Native of the eastern frontier of Bengal, from whence 
seed was sent to the Botanic’ Garden at Calcutta; and 
- from there to the collection of Comtesse de Vandes at Bays- 
water, where this drawing was taken last summer. 
Root perennial, tuberous, soboliferous, with numerous 
fleshy fibres. Leaves radical, petioled, lanceolate, recurved, 
plaited, smooth, 1-3 feet high, 2-6 inches broad: petioles 
“or £ of the length of the leaf, with a deep channel. Scapes 
axillary, compressed, villous, about the length of the pe- 
tioles, recurved at the end. Flower-heads drooping, one on. 
each scape: bractes. single, one-flowered, villous, taper- 
pointed, about even with the flowers. lowers yellow, 3 
_ of an inch in diameter, pedicled. Corolla hypocrateriform, _ 
solate, extended, villous without, 
6-partite, segments lance 
smooth within, permanent. laments short, inserted in 
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