265 
Alefrís,] CL. HÆMODORACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 
—15,000 
TrwPsRATE and ALPINE HIMALAYA, from Kasmurg to BHOTAN, alt. 10-15, 
ft,~—Disrrre. China. in odi 12 in., 
Leaves grass-like, 3-8 in. long, strongly nerved, rarely gin. e foe oe many- 
nearly naked, glandular-pubescent or woolly above, Spike or rac edicelled ; bracts 
fl, 1-4 in. ; tomentose flowers 1 in. long, greenish, EEN nae th: flowers, lower 
1-2, close under the flower, linear, green, longer or shorter d 3-nerved.— Bureau 
Sometimes 2 in, long; perianth-lobes oblong, obtuse, ve hat "To fieldia nepalensis, 
and Franchet (in Morot, Journ. de Bot. V. 155,) observe t y lanuginosa; adding 
erb. Strachey & Winterb. No. i appears to belong to their 4. 
that Wallieh's plant should be called A. nepalensis, . 
, scape 
2. A. sikkimensis, Hook. f.; leaves T omne eed tulo " globosely 
tall, spike very long, flowers glabrous, ovary glabrous, 
ovoid. 
Sixx HIMALAYA; Lachen valley, alt. 9-12,000 ft. J. D es 1-1 in. broad, 
da je larger plant than 4. nepalensis, with short narrowe 
and a 
ae : d much 
leafy scape with the raceme 1-2 ft. high, and with linear smaller an 
harrower seeds, 
dular- 
3. A. khasiana, Hook, f.; leaves many-nerved, flowers glandu 
pubescent, anthers oblong, ovary puberulous, capsule ovoi 
Kwasta Hints, alt. A Gan ft., common, Griffith, Ze, . ed. Scape 
eaves grass-like, 4-19 in., rarely } in. broad, closely striately nerv 
i in. long, yel- 
zi» glandular-pubescent above. Flowers usually sessile, ` very minute, 
lowish-red, pinkish or purplish ; bracts as in A. nepalensis. 
Teniform, 
2. PELIOSANTHES, Andr. w, linear or lan- 
Scapigerous herbs; rootstock horizontal. Leaves DL racemed, bracts 
ate, subplicately nerved. Scape erect; flowers sma. nulate ; lobes 6, 
Marius, pe, tf superior, tube short, broadly campa Manta fn a ring 
subequal, Spreading. Stamens 6, filaments very short le slits introrse. 
almost closing the mouth of the perianth ; anthers Ge 3-lobed ; ovules 
“ry inferior, top free conical, 3-celled; stigma Sot Pn dohiscent. Seeds 
or more, erect, basal in each cell, anatropous. Frui nd resting on the 
ew, bursting through the pericarp during ripening, "embryo in the base 
base of the withered perianth, tube fleshy or succulent; d Malayan. 
Of the hard fleshy albumen.—Species about 8, Indian an haracters than those 
„ The species of this genus are far from well defined. Better md in the number of 
ithe 9 employed for distinguishing them may perhaps be fou 
ovules, and form of the staminal tube and anthers. 
* Bracts many-ftd, 
i 2-94 by 
l. P. Teta Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 605; leaves long Ne many- 
1-3 in, nerves 10-20 scape stout shorter than the leaves, aa Bot. Mag. 
Vor Wn in Trans. Linn. Soc, 1817, 8; Kunth Enum ker in Journ. Linn. 
t. 1308 ; Redouté Liliac. t. 415, Reichb. Mag. t. 14; Bakerin” viridiflora, 
hj wir 505. P. violacea, Wall. Cat. 5084 (in part ?) 
Roxb, Fl, Ind. ii. 165. xo and BURMA. 
Pay EIN Himataya, the KmasrA HILLS, Assam, CHITTAGO 
NANG, Curtis. , 
tal hen dry. Scape 
Leaves 9.5. i i i ; eross-nervules distinct w 
naked or be 3 petiole variable in length; c 
t the base; 
mbranous sheaths a ien 
ith a few scales above and large membrat ‘able in length ; pedicels 
Deene 6. 19 in.; bracts 1-3 to every fuscicle of flowers, WER as large as a pea, 
5 flower, loi; ` nh ^ bluish- green. 
ivo |. "s 4-3 in. diam., purplish or bluis g 
See Ho, 1-3 m. diam., purp 
