Dioscorea. ] CLIV. DIOSCOREACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 297 
D. INTERMEDIA, Thwaites Enum. 326; glabrous, unarmed, stem terete, leaves 3 
by 1-1] in., opposite and alternate elliptic or oblong acuminate mucronate 3-nerved, 
petiole 4-1 in., fem. spikes 1 in, or rather more solitary simple, male shorter than 
the leaves fascicled or in long panicles flowers hexandrous, —Hotter parts of Ceylon. 
—The specimens I have seen ure too imperfect for further description. It is very 
near D, spicata, but has shorter spikes. . 
D. NEPALENSIS, Sweet Hort, Brit. Ed. ii. 522. No description. 
D. PELTATA, Jufs. in Pers. Syn. ii. 621; Kunth Enum. vi. 413; from Ceylon, is 
probably a Cocculyz, ` 
D. PURPUREA, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 799 ; tubers oblong reddish throughout, stems 
6-, or more-winged prickly, leaves opposite and alternate cordate 5-7-nerved, 
petiole long winged stem-clasping. Male and fem. spikes as in D. rubella.— 
Cultivated in Bengal. . 
D. RUBELLA, Rozb. l. c. 798; tubers oblong red-skinned, stem 6-winged, leaves 
Opposite sagittate-cordate 3-7-nerved, male spikes axillary simple and compound, 
if simple shorter than the leaves, fem. spikes axillary generally simple longer than 
the leaves, flowers very fragrant, staminodes large almost like the male stamens.— 
Cultivated about Calcutta. 
D. spicata, Roth; var. B. Thwaites Enum. 326 (C. P. 2872); a very slender 
Plant with ovate caudate-acuminate leaves, and a short panicle of large broad orbicular 
Cuspidate thin walled capsules, is something I think entirely different from D. ‘pica. 
Spsules 1-11 in, diam., valves semicircular. Seed orbicular, $ in. diam., broadly 
Winged all round 
2. TRICHOPUS, Got, 
A small erect rigid rennial herb. Stem short. Leaf terminal, 
petioled, linear-lanceolate, ovate or triangular, 3-7-costate. Flowers small, 
fascicled at the base of the leaf, panicles filiform, bisexual. Perianth 
ampanulate, subequally 6-fid. Stamens 6 on the bases of the periantl 
0S; anthers subsessile, short, broad, connective produced. Ovary 3- 
celled ; Style very short ; stigmas 3, short, reflexed, 2-fid ; ovules 2, super- 
posed in each cell, anatropous. Fruit ovoid, triquetrous, indehiscent. 
ds oblong, rugose, grooved dorsally, testa thin embryo minute 1n a 
cartilaginous albumen. 
l. T. ze lanic rtn. fruct. 1, 44, t. 14; Beccari in Nuov. Giorn. 
Bot. Ital, i 13; Gereke Te. Pe Tad. Or. t. 290. Trichopodium cordatum 
mtermedium and augustifolium, Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub t. 1543. . ` zey "Bo t 
Cum, Thwaites Enum. 991, 443. Podianthus arifolius, Schnitzl. in . 
Zeit, 1843, 739 , 
RAVANCORE, Beddome CEYLON common. 1 i 
Fic" 1-3 in. Leaves 2-8 in. long, petiole 1-8 m. P ehre long, 
edie’ minute, dark brown ; perianth lobes lanceolate, acute. TUAL i e 
‘eel thickened at the top. 
: ino AV eS 
" Rootstock tuberous or creeping; stem erect or climbing. Leane 
JF Opposite, petioled, 3 or more-costate, cross nervu os Dior or 
m axillary peduncles, regular, bisexual. Perian, he Perianth- 
be QU ior, 2-serlately 4-cleft. Stamens 4 at the base of t Go sub. 
OT Sub JPogynous; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary 1-celled ; 5 Em lous 
from tht Stigmas 3; ovules 2 or more, erect from the base o known in 
m the top of the cell, anatropous. Capsule 2-valved (fruit un 
