324 CLVI. LILIACEX,. (J. D. Hooker.) [Smilacina. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; in woods alt. 911,000 ít., J. D. H., &c. ` 
Rootstock short. Stem 2-5 ft., stout, flexuous. Leaves 3-8 in., pale beneath 
and 6-9-nerved. Panicle 3-12 in., oblong or deltoid, many-fld., branches wg 
pedicels 1-1 in. Perianth 1-} in. diam., segments serrulate. Filaments pei . 
Style very short, 3-cuspidate. Berry } in. diam.—A favourite pot-herb with the 
Lepchas of Sikkim. 
7. THEROPOGON, Maxim. 
Rootstock branched with thick root fibres. Leaves radical, linear, bases 
enclosed in sheaths, costate. Scape axillary from the lower leave 
naked. Flowers ina terminal raceme, small, rose-cold., nodding. Peru ` 
globosely campanulate; segments subequal, broadly ovate, broadly ded; 
bricate. Stamens inserted at the base of the segments, ingini 
filaments short, broadly obovoid, fleshy, incurved ; anthers pq 
between the lobes, ovoid, acute, cells spreading over the top of the A 
ment, erect. Ovary sessile; style filiform, acute, stigma minute; oe 
6-10-ovuled. Berry subglobose. Seeds few or several, subglobose, te 
thin adnate; embryo straight or curved. 
1. T. pallidus, Marim. in Bull. Acad. Petersb. xv. 89; Baken t 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 562; Bot. Mag. t. 6154. Ophiopogon: pa® 0. 
Wall. Cat. 5138; Kunth Enum. v. 200. O. brevifolius, Royle mss.* 
mollis, Royle Ill. 382 (name). 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Kumaon, alt. 6000 ft. to Sikkim, alt. 6-10,000 ft 
Kuasta HILLs, alt. 5—6000 ft. minate, 
Habit of an Ophiopogon, Leaves 6-10 in., erect and recurved, grassy, We the 
persistent, costa stout, green above, glaucous beneath. Scape shorter Mer thé 
leaves, acutely angled. Raceme 2-3 in. ; pedicels 4-4 in., solitary, jointed We 
perianth ; bracts green, subulate, Flowers X in. diam., drooping, white, 
with pink. Berries X in. diam.—Maximovicz describes the foliage as annua 
8. TUPISTRA, Ker. 
ceolate, 
inserted in the middle of the tube, included; filament very b 
flexed; anthers dorsifixed, incurved. Ovary small, sessile, su 
3—4 celled; style very short, stigma peltate or capitate, entire OT ta thin 
cells 2-ovuled. Berry globose, usually l-seeded. Seeds large, E rmese 
adnate ; albumen fleshy.—Species 7 or 8, tropical Himalayan and Ba 
* Bracts shorter than the flowers. 
D en- 
l. T. nutans, Wall. in Bot. Reg. t. 1223; Cat. 5793; spine Doo, 
dulous densely many-fld., lowers dull brown and purple, pena Mat, 
broadly ovate, mouth closed by the large hemispheric stigm? " c, yir. 
t. 30504; Kunth Enum. v. 318. T. squalida, Baker in Journ. Log, 
580 (in part). 000 ft» 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-5000 ft., J. D. H. Kuasia HILLS, alt. 2-4 
Wallich, &c. parrowly 
Rootstock as thick as the little finger. Leaves 2-8 ft. by 2-23 deor shorter 
oblanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, shining ; petiole as long as the bla id scari 
Pedunele 14-4 in. stout, decurved; spike 3-6 in.; bracts deltoid, 
Flowers }-% in. diam., tube hemispheric longer than the lobes. Berry 4 
