Tricyrtis. | CLVI. LILIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 359 
fixed, extrorse. Ovary 3-celled ; style 3-fid, arms 2-fid; cells many- 
ovuled. Capsule coriaceous, linear, triquetrous, septicidal. Seeds l-seriate, 
minute, flat; testa lax, brown, reticulate.—Species 5, Himalayan, Chinese 
and Japanese. ` 
T. pilosa, Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. 61, t. 46; glandular-pubescent, leaves 
rordately amplexicaul, flowers loosely corymbose white spotted with purple. 
Kunth Enum. iv. 979 ; Baker im Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 464; Bot. ag. 
t 4955; Flore des Serres, t. 1919. T. elegans, Wall. Le 62; Cat. 600. 
Üompsoa maculata, Don Prodr. 51. Compsanthus maculatus, Spreng. 
Syst. Veg. Cur. Post. 137. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. [-8000 ft.. J. D. H., &c. 
Bhotan, Grif. The KHASIA Droa, alt. 5-6000 ft. 
Stem 2-4 ft., slender. Leaves 4-6 by 14-3 in., acuminate, subpinnately 6-9- 
herved. Flowers li in diam., pedicels stout strict; bracts small, lower ovate- 
cordate, upper linear or 0. Perianth segments lanceolate, recurved from just above 
the bigibbous nectariferous base, subacute, sparsely glandular without, yellowish 
white with purple spots. Filaments stout, terete, erect, then stellately spreading ; 
et? lilac, Style short, clavate, arms recurved, stout, obtuse. Capsule 
-1i in. 
32. DISPORUM, Salisb. 
Rootstock creeping. Stem erect, angular, leafy. Leaves sessile or sub- 
‘essile, strongly-nerved. Flowers in terminalor axillary few-fld. umbels ; 
pedicels decurved. Perianth campanulate, deciduous; segments 6, erect, 
ase saccate or spurred. Stamens 6, hypogynous; anthers dorsifixed, 
extrorse, Ovary 3-celled ; style long or short, atigmas 3 short; cells 2-6- 
ruled. Berry pisiform, fleshy, black. Seeds subglobose, testa appressed, 
town.—Species about 12, Asiatic and N. American. 
The study of a very large series of specimens and drawingsof the Indian Dispora 
+S Satisfied me that no specific limits can be assigned to their forms, greatly 
ugh they differ, and Mr. Clarke has arrived at the same conclusion. The leaves 
"Bi no characters; the umbels are sessile or peduncled in the same form and even 
ba imen, and vary in the number of flowers they bear; the flowers are white, 
Zoch, or dark purple, and the perianth tubular with spreading tips of the narrow 
“ements in the large flowered forms ; but in others broadly campanulate with the 
tha, er segments spreading from shortly above the base. The filaments are shorter 
a the anthers in some forms, three to four times as long in others. The length of 
ena Jle is usually proportionate to that of the perianth, but it is sometimes far 
e indicating dimorphic conditions). The fruit is the same in all forms, 
Purple-black, pea-shaped berry. It remains for the resident botanists in the 
lan to study all the forms, each in his own province, with the view of classi- 
Min them, which latter I have been unable to do satisfactorily ; after which a 
genns. of all the results thus obtained would lead to a better knowledge of the 
l D. calcaratum, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 516; perianth- . 
; ente lanceolate acute base spurred. Kunth Enum. iv. 207; Baker in 
atk in. Soc. xiv. 588. D. Wallichii and Hamiltonianum, Don A 
139 Le, , D. latipetalum, Coll. & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 
; Uvularia calcarata, Wall, Cat. 5087. U. Hamiltoniana, Wall. Cat. 
< Part. U. Betua, Ham. mss. 
Keay, motte HIMALAYA; from Nepal, Wallich, eastwards, alt. 5-8000 ft. 
TS., MUNNIPORE and BURMA, alt. 8-6000 ft. 
