450 



MB. C. B. CLABKE ON 



below with the imbricated empty bracts of the barren flowers, 

 and terminated each by one or two capsules. 



Nevertheless the hill varieties (miJii) of A. nudijlorum are so 

 very close that I can only separate them by the capsule, which, 

 in this species, becomes finally of a slaty lustrous appearance. 



A. secundum, Wight, ' Icones,' t. 2075, is one of the forms which 

 come in between this species and the large A. nudijlorum ; Wight 

 does not mention the lustre of the capsules ; but from the figure 



nfolium. So Thwaites considers it, 



' Ceylon Enumeratio,' p. 322. 



Sect. III. 



6. Anilema vaginattjm, Kunth, I. c. p. 67 ; Wipht, Icones, t. 2076. 

 A pauciflorum, Dalzell in Hook. Journ. Bat. iii. p. 136. 



Suberectum, filiforme. Folia linearia, subglabra. Panicula: terminales 

 lateralesque depauperata;, 1-5-flora;, basi vagina subcylindrica invo- 

 lucratae. Stamina 2 perfecta. Semina 3, rugulosa, punctata. 



Hab. in orjzetis Bengalise orientalis. 



Sometimes 18 inches high, more commonly 6 to 9 inches, and 

 the panicle reduced to a solitary capsule. 



^ Dalzell states that his A. pauciflorum only differs from vaginaium 

 in having three seeds. But A. vaginatmn always has three seeds.-i- 



7. Anilema protensum. Wall. Cat. n. 5218. 



Wight 



osperm 



Suberectum, ramosum, viscosura. Folia! anceolata, subglabra. Paniculic 

 terminales, subumbellata;. Capsulie viscoso-pilosje. Stamina 3 per- 

 fecta. Semina 3, rugosa, punctata. 



Hab. in montibus commune; Himalaya, ad 3000-ftOOO ped. ait. j 

 Khasiya, ad 3000-5000 ped. alt. 



POLLIA, Kunth. 

 Aclisia et Lamprocarpus, incl. 



Semina 6, quorum 3-6 fertilia. Capsula plumbeo-CcTrulescens, 

 trilocularis, vix dehiscens, irregulariter rumpens. Semina 6-10 

 in quoque loculo, subbiseriata. Fanicula terminalis. 

 Tlie fruit, when fresh, is a brilliant blue, and at a distance ap- 

 pears a berry ; on closer examination it is found that there is no 

 pulp, but that the texture is chartaceous ; the capsule is ovate- 

 globose, and is marked longitudinally with the three lines along 

 which it imperfectly dehisces." The genus Lampocarpus, Bl., is 

 therefore bad; and, indeed, theHingle species on which it is 

 founded, L. thyrsiforus, seems to me Very doubtful, it is exactly 

 like the common Pallia indica, but has the panicle closer ; the 

 dcnseness, however, of the panicle in Pallia seems very variable. 



