Tab. 5355. 

 TRICYRTIS hirta. 



Thimberys Tricyrtis, 



Nat. Ord. UvulariExE. — Hexandria Tkigynia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 6-sepalus, corollaceus, regularis, deciduus; sepala distincta 

 oblonga, apice acuminata, campanulato-conniventia ; tria exterior a 7-nervia, basi 

 gibboso-saccata ; tria inter iora 5-nervia. Stamina 6, basi sepaloruui inserta, 

 a^qualia. Antherce biloculares, ellipticse, complanatse, apice retusse, basi biloba3, 

 dorso intus spectante versus medium affixes, externe secundum longitudinem de- 

 biscentes. Ovarium liberum, sessile, elongatum, triquetrura, triloculare, apice in 

 stylum brevem attenuatum ; ovula in loculis creberrima, biseriata, subhorizontalia, 

 anatropa. Stigmata 3, apice biloba, recurvata, capsula triquetro-prismatica, 

 trilocularis, apice trivalvis. Semina parva, in loculis biseriatim imbricate, 

 ovata, plana, atra ; testa laxiuscula, rugosa. Embryo minutus, in albuminis car- 

 nosi cavitate submucosa hilo opposita locatus. — Ilerbsc subliliter piloses. Caulis 

 erecttis,foliatus, apice ramosus et paucijlorus. Folia sparsa, ovato-oblonga, cor- 

 data, sessilia, amplexantia, acuminata, nervosa, membranacea. Flores in raw is 

 solitarii vel gemini, longe pedunculati, cernui, virescente albi, intus rnaculis 

 crebris purpureis notati, inodori, pedicellis inarticulatis. Klh. 



Tricyktis hirta ; tota hirta, pilis mollibus patentibus, foliis ovato-oblongis acu- 

 minatis sessilibus amplexicaulibus, floribus amplis in racemis brevibus pau- 

 cifloris axillaribus congestis, antheris dorso filamenti aduatis, ovario hirto, 

 stylo elongato. 



Uvularia hirta. Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 33. Willd. Sp. PL v. 2. p. 237. Roem. et 

 Sclmlt. Syst. Feg. v. 7. p. 370. 



The rediscovery of the Japanese Uvularia hirta of Thunberg, 

 as represented in the beautiful subject of the present plate, en- 

 ables us to correct the synonymy of the Himalayan Tricyrtis 

 pilosa of Wallich, figured in Tab. 4955 of this Magazine, in so 

 far as that plant was erroneously (though doubtfully) referred to 

 this by its discoverer. Dissimilar as the original T. hirta is 

 from the T. pilosa, it is not easy to seize on any further diffe- 

 rential characters than are to be found in its more hairy habit, 

 larger, longer style, pilose ovary, and more numerous and far 

 more beautiful flowers ; and the doubtful reference by Wallich, 

 nearly forty years ago, of his Himalayan plant to that of Thun- 



JANUARY 1st, 1863. 



