314 OLVI. LILIACEZ, (J. D. Hooker.) [Smilaz. 
Wall. Cat. 5124 B, D, in part. The specimens are quite insufficient for determina- 
tion. They may belong to S. zeylanica or Rozburghiana. 
S. VILLANDIA, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 5123; Royle Ill. 384, t. 94.— Rheede Hort. 
Mal. vi. t. 31. Detached leaves alone exist in Wallich’s and Hamilton Herbaria 
(from the Nepal Morung), and may belong to any one of several species. Royle’s 
plant is only known from the figure the inflorescence of which represents nothing 
known to me. Rheede’s plant is undeterminable. 
2. HETEROSMILAX, Kunth. 
Characters of Smilax, but perianth tubular, mouth contracted, 
2-5-toothed, and stamens 3 with more or less connate filaments.— Species 
5, Indian, Malayan, Chinese and Japanese. 
H. indica, A.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 43; leaves ovate- or oblong- 
lanceolate acuminate, filaments connate to about the middle, anthers 
obtuse. 
ASSAM and the KHasrA Hrs, alt. 1-4000 ft. 
Stem very slender. Leaves 4-8 by 2-33 in., 5-nerved, rather thin, base rounded ; 
petiole 3-1 in., subterete, sheathing base very short, cirrhose. Peduncles solitary, 
axillary, 1}-24 in., flattened; umbels many-Hd.; bracteoles minute, ovate, acum 
nate; pedicels 3-13 in. ; flowers very many, obovoid, male 4 in. long. Fruit ii i 
diam., globose. Seeds 2, hemispheric.— Very near H. japonica, Maxim., but differing 
by the filaments being united only half way up, and the anthers obtuse. 
3. ASPARAGUS, Linn. 
Rootstock stout, creeping. Stem erect straggling or climbing, terete 
grooved or angled. Leaves minute scales, often spinescent, bearing in their 
axils tufts of needle-like or fattened branchlets (cladodes). Flowers 
small or minute, axillary, rarely uni-sexual, solitary fascicled or racemes, 
pendulous; pedicel jointed. Perianth campanulate, 6-partite. Stamen 
on the bases of the segments; anthers oblong. Ovary 9-gonous; style t , 
stigmas 3; cells 2- or more- ovuled. Berry globose. Seeds 2-6; tes 
black, brittle; embryo dorsal.—Species about 100, Europe and Temp. a? 
Trop. Asia and Africa. 
* Flowers axillary, solitary clustered or umbelled, not racemed. 
+ Leaves not or rarely spinescent. Cladodes short straight or falcate. 
1. A. filicinus, Ham. in Don Prodr. 49; tall, erect, cladodes 25 
nate falcate flat acuminate costate, pedicels solitary or 2-nate, flowe 
polygamous. Kunth Enum. v. 73; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 600. 
TEMPERATE and TRoPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kashmir 4—7000 ft. eastwards, 
alt. 6-9009 ft., to Bhotan (except Sikkim). The KHasia Hie alt. 5-6000 tt. 
AssaM and BURMA. -— DISTRIB. China. 
Stems flexuous, fistular, much branched, smooth, unarmed, lower branches $ 
ing; upper internodes short. Cladodes Ae in. Pedicels Oor 4-4 in., jointed a te 
the middle. Perianth Ae in., subeampanulate. Stamens short; anthers minute. 
Berry 4-4 in. diam.—The following are marked forms. 
A. FILICINUS proper; cladodes A.A in., pedicels very slender 4-1 in.—Cent 
Western Himalaya. 
short, — Assam 
Var. BREVIFIPES, Baker l. c. ; cladodes }-} by A in., pedicels very 
and Khasia hills. 
pread- 
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