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Curculigo (This genus comprises about)

This genus comprises about a dozen species of stove perennials, natives of tropical Asia, Australia, tropical and South Africa, and tropical America. Flowers spicate or racemose; perianth six-parted, the segments sub-equal, spreading; stamens six, affixed at the base of the segments; whole inflorescence frequently villous. Fruit more or less succulent. Leaves radical, often long-lanceolate, plicate-veined, sometimes very large. To the species and varieties described on p. 410, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. densa (dense). l. oblong-ovate, acute, plicate, dark green, with a silvery lustre. India, 1885. A pretty, decorative plant, of dwarf habit.