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Ophiopogon.] ^ cr. HÆMODORACEA. (J. D. Hooker.) 269 
jointed about the middle; perianth white or pale lilac, segments variable in 
th, obtuse ; anthers oblong-lanceolate, filament short and broad ; style slender. 
Seeds 1-y in. long, oblong.—Kunth’s observation that the raceme is flexuous 
maes me suspect that the Walliebian plant which he describes (distributed as 
5139 of Herb, Wallich.) is a Nepal specimen of 5139 A. . 
Var, pauciflora; more slender, leaves narrower, flowers few not fascicled.— 
asia Hills, alt. 4-6000 ft. Intermediate between O. Wallichianus & intermedius, 
5. On intermedius, Don Prodr. 48; rootstock short not very stout, 
leaves 6-24 by 4—1 in, margins minutely erose, scape slender as long as 
the leaves or shorter, flowers solitary or fascicled }-1 in. diam. white, 
authers linear-oblong, filaments very short or 0. Royle Lil. 382, t. 96, f£ l.. 
-Japonicus, Wall. Cat. 5139 C. O. japonicus, var. intermedius, Maxim. 
Mel. Biol, vii. 391. O. indicus, R. W., Rottl.?; Wight Ie, t. 2090. 
7882 Jacquemontiana, Kunth Enum. v. 304. F. japonica, var. in- 
wi, Schultes f. in Roem. & Sch. Syst. vii. 310. F. intermedia, Kunth 
L2 . 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir eastwards, alt. 5-9000 ft. Kmasīa and 
rees hills, alt. 5-7000 ft. Ghats of MALABAR, MYSORE, &e., Wight. 
ON, 
Except by the nsuall much smaller flowers and always narrow leaves, and 
Sue anthers, this cannot be distinguished from small states of O. Wal- 
Manus (however widely different the extreme states of each are). The following 
a the most marked forms selected from some hundreds of specimens. They pass 
that Thy another, and T fear into O. Wallichianus. The bracts are so variable 
at I have omitted describing them, m 
AI. l, occidentalis ; raceme suberect many-fld., flowers white about j in. diam., 
Sch often 3-2 in.— Western Himalaya, Khasia hills and Munnipore. ` à 
white. 2. macrantha ; scape stout, raceme erect many-fid., flowers j-$ in. diam. 
ar. 3. lan d 1 e very slender 
4 a Parviflora; leaves very narrow secundly curved, scap lend 
P » flowers 3-2 in, diam. white or pale purplish, pedicels very short.—Sikkim 
aya, Khasia, and Munnipore hills. 
ln ar, 4, pauciflora ; leaves long 1-1 in. broad not secund, scape usually very 
g, race 5 3 
me short decurved few.-fld., pedicels short, flowers 4-3 in. diam. (Wall. 
Cat, 5139 0) 
fliform, 5. grailipes ; leaves long very slender 1-3 in. broad narrowed into almost 
White, Pettoles, scape slender, raceme few-fld. cernuous, flowers 3-9 1n. ` 
Lon 6-14 by 4 in. 
4 ,,,"alcoImsoni, Royle TIl 382 (name only); leaves y 
Ke Petioled tip obtuse, scape erect and raceme very slender, flowers 
istin pan. solitary or in distant pairs, pedicels very short, filamen s 
ct, anthers lanceolate acute. O. japonicus, Wall. Cat. 5139 G. 
Jon: at Ri - Vallich 
T "a Mgoon, M'Clelland, Kurz, ATTRAN, Wallick. 
it facci elongate ‘Tinear-lanceolate obtuse leaves and long slender n lourer 
than t be this.— Rootstock stout; roots fascicled, fleshy ; bracts usuai ans 
White 9 PE pedicels jointed below the middle; perianth rather t be Ros les 
> ye very slende eds 14 ». ellipsoid. — ume thi Mn 
LX Ye very slender. Seeds i in. long, ellipsoid. PENA en no authentic 
m 
l 
o Imsoni, a native of Rangoon, of which, however, 
o micranthus, Hook. f.; leaves 10-20 by j- in. mE petioled, 
lowers s58, Scape rather stout long or short, raceme suberect elongate, 
Solitary 4 in, diam., anthers sessile oblong obtuse. 
