Tas. 4955. 
TRICYRTIS pirosa. 
Hairy Tricyrtis. 
Nat. Ord. UvuLartEz.—HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 6-sepalus, corollaceus, regularis, deciduus ; sepala distincta, 
oblonga, apice acuminata et cucullato-excavata, campanulato-conniventia ; tria 
exteriora 7-nervia, basi gibboso-saccata ; tria interioria 5-nerva. Stamina 6, basi 
sepalorum inserta, eequalia. Filamenta subulata, compressa, basi dilatata ac subcon- 
nata, glabra. Anthere biloculares, ellipticee, complanatze, apice retusze, basi bilobee, 
dorso intus spectante versus medium affixe, externe secundum longitudinem 
dehiscentes. Ovarium liberum, sessile, elongatum, triquetrum, triloculare, apice 
in stylum brevem attenuatum ; ovula in loculis creberrima, biseriata, subhorizon- 
talia, anatropa. Stigmata 3, apice biloba, recurvata. Capsula triquetro-pris- 
matica, trilocularis, apice trivalvis. Semina parva, in loculis per simplicem (?) 
seriem densissime imbricata, ovata, plana, atra ; ¢es¢e laxiuscula, rugosa. Embryo 
minutus, in albuminis carnosi cavitate submucosa hilo opposita locatus.—Herbee 
subtiliter pilosa. Caulis erectus, foliatus, apice ramosus et pauciflorus. Folia 
sparsa, ovata-oblonga, cordata, sessilia, amplexantia, acuminata, reticulato-nervosa 
(?), membranacea. Flores in ramis solitarii vel gemini, longe pedunculati, cernut, 
Poa Peeate intus maculis crebris purpureis notati, inodori ; pedicellis inarticu- 
tis. Kth. ' 
Tricyrtts pilosa. 
Tricyrtt1s pilosa. Wall. Tent. Fl. Nepal. v. 2. p. 52, p.46. Roem. et Schult. 
Syst. Veget. v. 17. p. 1680. Kunth, Enum. Plant. v. 4. p. 279. 
Campsoa maculata. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 51. 
ComPsaNnTHUS maculatus. Spreng. Syst. Veget. Cura Post. 137. 
Uvurarta hirta? Thunb. Jap. 36. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p.137. Roem, et Schult. 
Syst. Veget. v. 7. p. 370. 
If this is not a plant which strikes the eye from its beauty, it 
can scarcely fail to do so from the peculiar form and colouring 
of the flowers. Dr. Wallich, its discoverer, thinks it may be 
identical with the Uvularia hirta of Thunberg ; if so, it is a na- 
tive of Japan as well of Himalaya, in the mountains of Sheo- _ | 
pore and Chandagiry, where Dr. Wallich saw it; but it has 
probably an extensive range in Himalaya, for it is abundant in 
Sikkim-Himalaya, where Drs. Hooker and Thomson detected it, 
and whence they sent seeds to the Royal Gardens of Kew. The 
DECEMBER lst, 1855. 
