CLVI. LILIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 323 
6. SMILACINA, Desf. 
Rootstock short, or creeping. Stem simple, leafy above. Leaves alter- 
nate, subsessile, rarely petioled, ovate-lanceolate. Flowers in terminal 
racemes or panicles, small, shortly pedicelled. Perianth spreading ; seg- 
ments subequal, usually deciduous. Stamens hypogynous or adnate to 
the bases of the segments, filaments long or short; anthers minute, 
globose, dorsifixed. Ovary subglobose, 3-celled ; style long or short, stigma 
entire or 3-fid; cells 2-ovuled, Berry globose. Seeds 1 or few, globose ; 
testa thin, adnate ; embryo about half the length of the seed.—Species about 
» ^urope, temp. Asia and America. 
* Flowers racemose. 
l. S. olig ophylla, Hook. f.; stem and leaves beneath and rachis of 
raceme puberulous, leaves 3 in., pedicels solitary, perianth-segments pale 
tice oblong-lanceolate, Tovaria oligophylla, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
V. . 
Deem Hianaya; woods at Lachen, alt. 10-13,000 ft. J. D. H. 
otslock stout, creeping. Stem }-1 ft., flexuous above, slender. Leaves 3-5 in., 
d ong, acute, or acuminate, membranous, pale and costate beneath, with many 
ender nerves. Raceme 10-20-fld., 2-3 in., shortly peduncled ; pedicels {7% in.; 
cts deltoid. Perianth sin. long, Style very short. 
' 2s. pallida, Royle Ili. i. 380; stem stout, leaves beneath and rachis 
ot raceme densely pubescent leaves, 4-6 in., pedicels solitary or 2-nate, 
Perianth segments white oblong. S. purpurea, Wall. Cat. 4201 ; Plant. As. 
Was" 99 t. 144. S. albiflora, Wall. Pl. As. Rar, ii. 38. Tovaria 
pallida, and purpurea, Baker in Journ. Linn. Koc. xiv. 566. Jocaste 
gie and albiflora, Kunth Enum. v. 150. | 
EMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 8- ., from Garwhal eastwards to Sikkim. 
Siem 2-3 ft., very stout, naked below "ée above. Leaves 8-12, oblong; 
fet. » acute, pale beneath, with 7-9 principal nerves. Raceme 3-6 in., rachis W - 
Filan pedicels 1-3 in.; bracts deltoid. Perianth i in. long, purple or white. 
ments deltoid. Style very short. 
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Flowers in thyrsiform panicles. 
slik fusca, Wal r. iii. 37, t. 257; nearly glabrous, 
Petioled ovate-cordate eeng panicle deltoid, perianth brown- 
* segments oblanceolate obtuse. S. divaricata, Wall. Cat. 4202. S. 
in J nensis, Grif. Notul. 178 ; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 279. Tovaria fusca, Baker 
ourn, Linn, Soe, xiv. 568. ’ Medora divaricata, Kunth Enum. v. 156. 
Bhota ERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-8000 ft. from Nepal, Wallich, to Sikkim and 
, hasta Hitis, alt, 5-6000 ft. D 
h: 2 ft., slender, Leaves 3-6 in., membranous, glabrous or sparsely p ose 
flernogs” petiole 1-11 in., nerves 5-7. Panicle 3-6 in. ; peduncle short, l ranche 
Filamenty oe 84. ; pedicels 3-1 in. solitary, bracts minute. Perianth i in. diam. 
deltoid, Style very short. Berry 1-} in., 1-3-seeded. 
sel ; leaves beneath 
ad p: "Pracea, Hook, f. & Thoms. Herb. Ind. Or. ; stem lea 
hnic], cle pubescent, khna subsessile oblong-lanceolate qur 
Mag i long or deltoid, perianth white, segments oblong o! tuse. . 
"a Tovaria oleracea, Baker in Journ. Linn Soc. xiv. 569. 
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