Tas. 6544, 
TRICYRTIS MACROPODA. 
Native of Japan and China. 
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Nat. Ord. Littacrm.—Tribe Uvunarrex. 
Genus Tricyrt1s, Wallich ; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xvii. p- 463.) 
TricyRrt1s macropoda ; caule flexuoso 2-3-pedali inferne glabro superne subtiliter 
glanduloso-puberulo, foliis alternis’oblongis amplexicaulibus acutis facie calvatis 
dorso pubescentibus margine seabris, floribus pluribus laxe corymbosis, perianthii 
infundibularis segmentis oblongo-spathulatis extus viridibus intus albidis crebre 
purpureo-punctatis flore expanso late falcatis exterioribus basi foveolatis 
profunde saccatis interioribus haud foveolatis marginibus inflexis, genitalibus 
perianthio paulo brevioribus, capsulis linearibus acute angulatis. 
T, macropoda, Miguel in Ann. Mus. Lug. Bat. vol. iii. p. 155; Maxim. in Bull. 
Acad. Petrop. vol. vi. p. 208; Regel in Gartenflora, vol. xviii, p- 129, t. 613 ; 
Franchet et Savat. Enum. Jap. vol. ii. p.74; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
vol. xvii. p. 464, ‘ 
The genus Tricyrtis has so far been very little cultivated 
in our English gardens. As the plate shows, it is a very - 
distinct and very remarkable Liliaceous type. It is restricted 
to Japan, China, and the Eastern Himalayas. Six species 
are now known, all of them closely resembling one another 
in habit and structure. Three of them have been introduced 
into cultivation, and the other two, 7. hirta, Tab. 5355, and 
. pilosa, Tab. 4955, have already been figured in the 
Borantcan Macazinz. The present species flowers in the 
middle of summer, produces its seeds in autumn, and dies 
down to the ground in winter. Our drawing was made 
from a plant that flowered in the herbaceous ground at 
Kew, in July, 1880, 
Descr. Stem erect, flexuose, terete, two or three feet 
long, glabrous in the lower part, finely glandular-pubescent 
upwards. eaves alternate, oblong, acute, amplexicaul, 
three or four inches long, moderately firm in texture, with 
about seven clearly-marked main veins running from the 
base nearly to the apex, at first slightly pilose, but when 
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