304 CLVI. LILIACES. (J. D. Hooker.) [Smilaz. 
t Branches and branchlets acutely angled. 
5. S. rigida, Wall. Cat. 5120; leaves 4-14 by 3-3 in. subsessile 
orbicular-ovate or ovate-cordate faintly 3-costate, umbels 1-4-fld., sepals 
elliptic oblong, petals rather narrower 4-5 times longer than the stamens. 
Kunth Enum. v. 164; A.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 105. S. Wallichii, Steud. 
Nomencel. (not of Kunth). 
EASTERN, HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 7-10,000 ft.; Bhotan, 
Griffith. a 
‘A small erect much branched shrub with small coriaceous leaves, dwarf y 
densely leafy at high elevations, branches acutely angled, prickles few smali; 
branchlets slender, distichous. Leares obtuse acute or apiculate base, rounded or 
cordate, rarely acute ; petiole decurrent on the branchlets, with 2 minute doin 
sete (cirrhi?), jointed at the top. Peduncle short, 1-1 in.; bracts lanoooiate, 
taper-pointed, persistent, laciniate or ciliate; pedicels unequal; perianth cupu'ar ; 
male flowers very small; sepals and petals membranous ; anthers minute didymons ; 
fem. fl. rather larger, staminodes 3; ovary subglobose, stigmas sessile. Berne 
1-1 in. diam., black.—Closely allied to S. myrtillus, and next to which A.D, 
places it though regarding it as most nearly allied to S. feroz. 
6. S. Myrtillus, A DC. Monogr. Smilax, 106; leaves 1-1} m. ovate 
acuminate membranous faintly 3-costate base acute or rounded, petiole 
15-4 in. articulate above the thickened broad base, peduncle few-fld. an s 
pedicels very slender, sepals and petals subequal oblong three or four time 
as long as the stamens. 
Kuasta Haas, Grifith, alt. 4-6000 ft, J. D. H. T. T. Naca Hiris, alt. 
7000 ft., Clarke. 3 
Closely allied to S. rigida, which it represents in the Khasia, but 8 dort 
slender plant, with larger more ovate acuminate leaves, more slender sho : 
or long peduncled pedicels, and longer but still very short petioles that og 
setiform process on each side as in that plant. Berries J- in. diam., black, WW 
seeded, on slender pedicels.—The Bhotan plant referred here by De Candolle Gi 
think, certainly S. rigida, which is a more alpine species, unknown in the Khasia. 
The staminode was solitary in several flowers that I examined. 
tt Branches and branchlets terete or nearly so. 
7. S. parvifolia, Wall. Cat. 5118; leaves 1-3 in. ovate or ovate- 
cordate or lauceolate acute or acuminate 3-5-costate often Sea . 
beneath, base rounded or cordate, petiole A A in. very slender sheat ing 
half way up or more, male umbels few-fld., peduncles and pedicels We 
slender, bracteoles minute, sepals linear-oblong, petals much narrow P 
filaments very short. Kunth Enum. v. 163. S. elegans, A.DC. Mon 
Smilax, 107; Wall. Cat. 5117 B. S. glaucophylla, Klotzsch in Rese ^" 
Wald. Bot. 45, t. 91. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5-8000 ft., from Kashmir eastwards. The Kus 
Hrs, alt. 6000 ft. times 
Branches very slender, stiff, terete, smooth, unarmed ; branchlets sometin Y 
furrowed, often zigzag. Leaves very variable in size and shape, acuminate, thin, hig ; 
reticulate ; petiole very short, jointed at the top; sheath often cirrhose. De 
and pedicels 3-4 in., capillary, the former often thickened and flat in fruit. U 
few- or many-fld.; bracteoles lanceolate, very short; flowers winute; sepa 
petals ovate-lanceolate; filaments very short; anthers didymous; OVary , 
1-3-celled, staminodes 1-3. Berries 3-1 in. diam.—A very common an vere 
Himalayan plant.— The name parvifolia though appropriate for Wallich's an 
specimens is for others delusive. 
