Tas. 5061. 
POLYGONATUM puNCTATUM. 
Spotted-stalked Solomon’ s-seal. ‘ 
Nat. Ord. SMILACINE®.—HEXxANDRIA MonoGyYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5049.) 
PotyGonatum punctatum ; glabrum, caule angulato maculato, foliis subdistichis 
carnosis ovato-lanceolatis obsolete striatis obtuse subacuminatis sessilibus, 
pedunculis axillaribus bifloris, floribus erectiusculis, perianthio clavato- 
cylindraceo, ore contracto, limbi lobis subpatentibus ovato-rotundatis alter- 
natim minoribus, filamentis erectis glabris. 
PotyconaTuM punctatum. Royle, Himal. Fl. v. 1. p. 38. Kunth, Enum. Plant. 
v. 5. p. 142. 
CoNVALLARIA punctata. Wall, Cat. n. 6183. 
_We have lately figured one Indian species of Polygonatum, 
viz. Polygonatum roseum (see our Tab. 5049), and we have now 
to offer another rare Indian species of the same genus. Dr. 
Wallich, its author, gives it as an inhabitant of Nepal, where 
Dr. Hooker also found it at a later period, as well as at Sikkim, 
at an elevation of 7,000 to 11,000 feet above the sea. Our fine 
flowering specimens were communicated by Mr. Nuttall, from 
the open ground of his garden at Nutgrove, Rainhill, Lanca- 
shire, in April, 1858, having been introduced to his collection 
by his nephew Mr. Booth, from Bhotan. This species is not 
described (only named) by Wallich and Royle; and Kunth has 
certainly erred in describing the leaves as opposite, for ours ne 
clearly alternate, in which respect it differs remarkably from the 
much better-known Polygonatum oppositifolium, Wall. bh 
Descr. Root white, thick, tuberous, sending down stout, fleshy 
fibres, and often truncated or premorse at the end, as In re 
species of the genus, a circumstance that has given rise to ng e 
English generic name of “ ‘Solomon’s-seal.” From this tuk : 
one or more simple sfems arise, which are erect, about as. ae ; 
as a goosequill, sheathed at the base with a few, large, 1mbri- 
JULY lst, 1858. 
