. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . ar, about two inches long, of the diameternearly of a common pen, very pale pea-green, blueish at thetips, placed in pairs side by side at the ends of the branch-lets, the uppermost or outer one in our sample always prov-ing abortive, as shown in the present figure. Calyx twiceshorter than the corolla, more substantial, nerved; segmentslanceolately long-pointed sitting close about the nearly an inch and an half long, the orifice shortlyand subbilabiately spreading; segments ligulate, convolute,overlapping each other a
. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . ar, about two inches long, of the diameternearly of a common pen, very pale pea-green, blueish at thetips, placed in pairs side by side at the ends of the branch-lets, the uppermost or outer one in our sample always prov-ing abortive, as shown in the present figure. Calyx twiceshorter than the corolla, more substantial, nerved; segmentslanceolately long-pointed sitting close about the nearly an inch and an half long, the orifice shortlyand subbilabiately spreading; segments ligulate, convolute,overlapping each other at the sides, shortly pointed. Anthersyellow, linear, vibrating. Germen cylindrical, oblong,green, furrowed, 3 times shorter than the corolla. Styleslightly protruded, green: stigmas dark deep green, halvedlanceolate, linear, twisted into one or else loose. Thesmall scaly crown at the bottom of the interior of the flowerresembles exactly that of Bromelia nudicaulis, the descrip-tion of which may be seen in vol. 3, fol. 203, of the presentpublication. <34. 345 CURCULIGO plicata. ^,Smooth plaited-leaved Curculigo, HEXANDRIA MOXOGYNIA. Kat. nrd. Asphodele;e. Broxvjt prod. 1. 274. Div. Genera inter As- phodeleas et Amaryllideas media. /. c. 288. CURCULIGO. Cor. supera. 7stylo accretus, persistens. Lim-bus 6-partitus, planus, deciduus. Gem. 3-loculare, loculis 3, angulis styli adnata (v. raro distincta.) Bncca oblonga, tubocorollac coronata. Semina pulpa carnosa (strophiolis?) distincta, umbilico-laterali rostelliformi. HypoxiDi, nec Gethyllidi, proxinium genus. Processus lateralisGaertneri est innhiiicus verus; sinus inter quern et seminis extremitatem superi-orem, ubi radicula papilla indicata existity repletus est came albo, ab axi pericarpii ortum ducente et pro strophiold umbilicali habendo. Hcec structura inCuRCULiGiNE ensifolia brevifolia o^^erua^rt; reliquas species Indice Orien-talis nondum examini subjeci. In Curculigine plicata umbilicus guoquelater
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