362 CLVI. LILIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Trillium. 
Stem 8-12 in. Leaves 2-3 in. broad and long or narrower. Pedunele in. 
Flowers 2-1 in, diam. ; filaments flat, rather longer than the linear anther. style 
very short.—This, which differs from the American and Japanese T. erectum chiefly 
in the longer filaments, will (with others) prove, I expect, a form of that variable 
species. 
35. PARIS, Linn. 
Characters of Trillium, but leaves 4-9 in a whorl, and flowers 8-12- 
merous. Species 5 or 6, Europe, Temp. Asia. 
3. P. polyphylla, Smith in Rees Cyclop.; leaves 4-9 petioled oblong 
or oblanceolate acuminate, sepals 4-6 ovate-lanceolate acuminate, petals 
as long or longer filiform, fruit 3-6-valved, testa pulpy. Don Prodr. 49; 
Kunth Enum. v. 118; Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 24, t. 126; Cat. 3710; 
Hook. f. Ic. Cathcart, t. 24. P. Daisua, Herb. Ham. P. imperialis, 
Jacquem. mss. Euthyra, Salisb. Gen. Pl. Fragm. 61. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Simla to Bhotan, alt. 6-10,000 ft.—DISTRIB. 
W. China. . ft. 
Rootstock annulate, sometimes as large as a small potato. Stem 3 in. to 3 á 
Leaves 3-6 in., dark green, base rounded or acute; petiole 4 in. or less. Sepals 1 
in., green, 3-nerved. Petals sometimes twice as long, yellow. Anthers longer 
than the filament, very narrow, connective very shortly produced or not. | Ovary 
subglobose, septa nearly reaching the axis. Fruit green, smooth, 2j in. diam., ir 
less, coriaceous, loculicidal. Seeds 4 in. long, or less, ovoid, scarlet.—Extremely 
variable in the number and size of all parts. 
Orver CLVII. PONTEDERIACEZ. 
Fresh-water and marsh herbs. Leaves erect or floating, nerves parallel. 
Flowers, bisexual, in spikes or racemes from the sheath of the uP Pte 
most leaf; bracts sheathing irregular. Perianth unequally nat 
white or blue, marcescent. Stamens 1-6, inserted at the base of the lo 8; 
anthers erect or versatile, one usually longer than the others. Qvary M 
3-celled, or l-celled with 3 parietal placentas; placentas one OF more 
ovuled; style slender, stigma subentire or lobed; ovules anatropons 
Capsule membranous, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds small, albumen horny 
or floury ; embryo cylindric.—Genera 5, species about 36. 
MONOCHORIA, Presi. 
Rootstock short or creeping. Leaves radical and solitary at the top of 
the emerged stem or branches. Perianth campanulate, 6-partite. See 
6, one usually largest, with the filament toothed on one side; 
basifixed, slit terminal at length elongating. Ovary 3-celled, many- 
—Species about 6, in the tropics of the old world. 
ovuled. 
1. M. hasteefolia, Presl Rel. Henk. ii. 128; rootstock creeping, lenve 
long-petioled sagittate hastate or cordate, flowers racemed or subumbela 
long-pedicelled. Kunth Enum. iv. 133; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. m. Y tata 
M. hastata, Solms Laub. in A.DC. Monog. Phanerog. iv. 523. M. dien 
& sagittata, Kunth l. c. 134. Pontederia hastata, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. 5092 ; 
Mant. 363; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 121; Cor. Pl. ii. 6, t. 63; Wall. Cat. 7-9 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 249; Raspail in Ann. Mus. xiv. t. 169, £. 
