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CURCULIGO plicata. £.. 
_ Smooth plaited-leaved Curculigo. 
HEXANDRIA chanaaesee = 
Nat. ord. Aspnoprrem. Brown prod. 1. 274. Div. Genera inter Ass 
phodeleas et Amaryllideas media. /. c. 288. : 
CURCULIGO. Cor. supera. Tudus stylo accretus, persistens. Lim- 
dus 6-partitus, planus, deciduus. Germ. 3-loculare, loculis polyspermis. — 
Stigmata 3, angulis styli adnata (v, rard disuncts:) Bacca oblonga, tubo 
corolla coronata. Semina pulpa carnosa (strophiolis?) distincta, umbilico- 
laterali rostelliformi. 
» _Hyroxrpi, nec GeruyLyipi1, prozimum genus. Processus lateralis © 
Gartneri est umbilicus verus; sinus inter quem et seminis extremitatem superi- 
orem, ubi radicula papillé indicata existit, repletus est carne albo, ab axt peri-- 
carpit ortum ducente et pro strophiold umbilicali habendo. Hec structura in 
CuncuLiGine ensifolia et brevifolid observata; reliquas species Indie Orien- — 
talis nondum examini subject. In Curcuricine plicaté umbilicus quogue 
lateralis esse videtur + sed superiore extremitate magis approximatus, et adpressus. 
nec rostrum efficiens. Brown loc. cit. 289. ee. 
C. plicata,. foliis lineari-subulatis, floribus sessilibus. Dryander in Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2. 2. 253. a 
Curculigo plicata. Nobis in lined penultimé obs. ad char. gen. GuTHYLLIDIS. 
in Curtis’s magaz. fol. 1088. ; 
Gethyllis plicata. Jacg. hort. scheenb. 1. 4. 2. t. 80. Willd. sp. pl. 2.105. 
Hypoxis plicata. Lin. suppl. 197. Thunb. prod. 60. 
Fabricia plicata. Thunb. tn Fabricti it. norveg. 29. 
(«) foliis subpubescentibus ciliatis. ; 
(8) foliis nudis‘margine glabro. : 
_ Bulbus depressus, avelland major, albidus, tunica cinerea reticulata vestitus. 
Fol. radicalia, pauca, ab 1 ad 6, lineari-ensiformia, plicatula, acuta, integer- 
rima, in flore erecta et plus minus 4-uncialia, utrinque hirtula, ad basin vagine 
spathacee inclusa, (denud ad 8 v. 10 uncias elonganda). Flores sessiles, pauct, 
enodori, radicati. Spathw pauce pallida et membranacee basin corolle cir- 
cumdant. Corolla tubus scapum mentitur, ex quo difficultér extricatur stylus. 
Limbi supra flavissimi lacinie 3 alterne foris cum virore flavent, 3 relique 
subtis virent. Fil. flavent. Anth. sunt lutea. Stylus albidus, superneé luteus 
ult et stigma. Fructus é terra attolluntur, Corcuict more. Corolle tubus 
longissimus, filiformis, triangularis, erectiusculus. Limbi 6-fidi Jacinie lan- 
écolate, acuminate, plane, striatule, patentissime, quarum 3 alterne paulo 
. breviores et angustiores. Fil. brevissima, erecta, subulata. Anth. obtuse, 
magna, bisulcate, erecte. Germ. lineare, 3-angulare, compressum. Stylus 
capillaris, erectus, supra corolle tubum incrassatus. Stigma semitrifidum, 
laciniis erectiusculis linearibus acutis. Jacq. loc. cit.” 
The species which at present compose the genus are 
found in the East Indies, New Holland, and at the Cape of 
_ Good Hope; those of the latter region were first incorporated 
with those of the former by Mr. Dryander in the Jast edition 
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