Curculigo orchioides Gaertn.

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CURÇULIGO Gaertner	i	h	’	-
bethyllis acaulis Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 260 (Gethillis) (sp. nov.) ; ed. 2
(1845) 181; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 324=CIRCULIGO ORCHOIDES Gaertn.
(at least as interpreted in IJooker’s Flora of British India),
This species was reduced by Naves to Hypoxis frafiquevillei
Miq.=±H. aurea Lour. In my previous paper on Blanco’s spe- :
hies, through oversight, I indicated Loureiro’s species as Hypoxis,
fla/va, instead of H.-aurea, and considered F.-Villar’s reduction t
as certainly correct. Blanco’s description, however, is unmis-
takably that of a species of Cwrculigo, not Hypoxis in “Cor
[olla] superior, muy larga, con el tubo ahilado, macizo (y asi en
realidad no es tubo) ” which refers to the long and slender beak
¡or stipe extending far above the ovary and bearing the perianth.
This species of Cwrculigo is widely distributed at low altitudes
in the Philippines and has been recently found immediately
north of Manila; Blanco’s type was from Malinta, near Manila.
It greatly resembles Hypoxis aurea in habit and is frequently
confused with that species. Hypoxis aurea never occurs in the
Philippines at low altitudes and is entirely unknown from the
provinces near Manila.
.Illustrative specimens from Taytay, Palawan, May, 1913
(Merrill: Spedm Blancoanae Nom M60).
a MZlllil ii:
S1» EC I ES 13	L AN C NO. 860
£60. Oureuligo orohcltfes Gaerta.
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