326 CLVI. LILIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Tupistra. 
9. ASPIDISTRA, Ker. 
Characters of T'upistra, but scape very short, 1-fld.; flowers tetramerous, 
embraced by concave sheathing bracteoles inserted at the base of the 
perianth.—Species 8 or 4, Himalayan, Japanese and Chinese. 
A. longifolia, Hook. f.; leaves 2-3 ft. by 1-2 in. narrowly liner 
oblanceolate, bracts 2-3 hemispheric strongly nerved. A. lurida, Baker 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 579, not of Ker. 
UPPER Assam; in the Mishmi hills, Griffith. . oid 
Rootstock stout, creeping. Leaves tufted, rather thin, contracted into a eh 
deeply grooved petiole that is produced into a trigonous keel extending half "T z 
the leaf more or less, nerves close set slender. Peduncle }-} in., stout, with a b " 
shaped bract at the top. Flower (bud ?) very shortly pedicelled ; bracts erte 
rounded at Che apen ; perianth 3 in. diam., fleshy, snbglobose contracted at the e at 
lobes very small. Anthers sessile, recurved. Stigma very large.—A very differe 
plant from the A. lurida, Ker of China. 
10. GONIOSCYPHA, Baker. 
Leaves radical, petioled, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, costate E» 
strongly nerved. Scape radical, bracts elongate-subulate much excee i 
the flowers; spike erect, cylindric, crowned with a tuft of flowerless mg 
sistent bracts. Perianth-tube cylindric; lobes 6, short, broadly Min 
spreading. Stamens 6, inserted in the throat of the perianth, filani . 
very short; anthers erect, linear-oblong. Ovary subglobose, 3-celleds 
style columnar; stigma small, 3-lobed ; cells 2-ovuled. 
G. eucomoides, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 581, t. 19; NE. 
Br. in Gard. Chron. 1886, ii. 744. 
BROTAN HIMALAYA; in the Duphla hills, alt. 4500 ft., Booth, Lister. ue 4 in. 
Rootstock long, fleshy. Leaves 1-2 ft. by 6-8 in., narrowed into à De 
long, subpinnately 10-12-nerved. Scape 8-9 in., stout, strict, terete, W! istent; 
scarious sheaths; spikes 3 in., dense-fid., cylindric; bracts setaceous, Des 
: in. loni 
flowers at length deflexed, nearly } in. long, dark green. Berry ovoid, 1-3 !- longs 
fleshy, 1-seeded. 
10* HEMEROCALLIS, Linn. 
. Rootstock very short, with fleshy root-fibres. Leaves elongate, narrow 
linear, costate and many-nerved. ‘Scape elongate, terete, naked, bea ellow. 
few-fld. panicle; bracts deciduous. Flowers large, suberect, orange- ube, 
Perianth funnel-shaped, 6-partite, segments connate at the base 17 " tbe 
then recurved, outer smaller. Stamens 6, inserted at the mout, of the 
tube, exserted, filaments filiform, declinate, inserted in a dorsal pit linaté; 
linear-oblong versatile anther. Ovary 3-celled ; style filiform, dee ceouss 
stigma capitate; cells many-ovuled. Capsule triquetrous, corie- 
loculicidal. Seeds angled; testa thin, black, shining ; embryo CJ hn 
Species 5, Europe, temp. Asia and Japan. 
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H. fulva, Linn. Sp. Pl. Ed. ii. 462; inner perianth-segments a 
larger and broader than the outer, margins undulate with reticulate p L 
Kunth Enum, iv. 588; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 999; "Te, Fl 
Orient. v. 312; Bot. Mag. t. 64; Redouté Lil. t. 16; Seid, Gard. 
Germ. t. 1113; Wall. Cat. 8975. H. disticha, Don in Sweet Brit. ^^ 
