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Annon mediocris. Rami eylindrici, glabri; Juniores conspersi pube førrogined, separabili pilisque aliquot aie, pu Foura 
ad apices ramorum approximata, sparsa, patentia, pinnata opm impari, 4-Juga, sennpedaka, EA DURE pra» 2e, pon 
gerrimæ, exactè oppositæ, brevè petiolatæ, coriaceæ, ERE guise suprà nitide, subtùs pallidse et g quem es, in si E n. m 
breviores, reticulato-venulosæ, costa vix puberulà. PerIoLUS SCA el vel bipollicaris, me 7 kd; r m us e = icu- 
latus ; partiales cylindrici, 3 lineas longi, basi articulati; rachis gwan teres, peta id. si ullæ, D > + * reye LORES 
mediocris magnitudinis, albi, dispositi in racemos oblongos, erectiusculos, eres solitarios, patron afon olio par m breviores. 
PepuncuLus communis 2—3-pollicaris rachisque leviter compressi, ponesesntes. CANTA ovatas, basi Nentricose-ampliatns, obsoletå 
5-angularis, subbilabiatus, 5-fidus, pedicellusque villositate ferrugineå densè vestiti; labium Perus Adu, inferius Tri iin 
patulæ, ovatæ, acute, subæquales. CorouLA calyce duplò major, glabra apo breve-unguiculata ; vexillum porius subrotun um, 
retusum, adscendens, unguiculare, planum, medió parúm sulcatum, disco gide va de aki oblongæ, obtusæ, basi retusæ, kisa 
parumper breviores ; carina 2-phylla; foliola omninò distincta, alis similia. STAMINA M distincta, parallelo aom, ion. 
inæqualia ; filamenta filiformia, basi subincrassatå distantia (pracipuè supremum seu decimum), altema graciliora ; Hiftor «nna 
parüm longiora, exserta, superiora breviora; antheræ ovata, erectæ, exsertze. PistILLUM eya longiora vix æquans ; son sessile, 
oblongum, complanatum, adpressè villosum, canum, 4-sporum ; stylus teres, subadscendens ; stigma parvum, bilobum, lobis obtusis. 
Plate CXXV. Fig. 1. Flower. — 2. The same, opened. 3. Stamens. 4. Pistil. 5. The same, opened. 
PARIS POLYPHYLLA. Tab. 1926. 
Paris polyphylla, Smith in Cyclopædia Reesiana, in loco. | 
Habitat in sylvis densis Napaliæ, Kamaon et Sirmore, florens a mense Aprilis usque ad finem Junii, fructifera versus 
finem pluviarum, mense Septembris. 
Nomen Newar, Beema. 
Hera erecta, omnibus partibus levis, bipedalis usque ad quadripedalem, let? viridis, attritu odorem spargens narcoticum. Raprx 
perennis, tuberosa, carnosa, cylindrica, horizontalis, levitèr annulata, fusca, pollicem ad sesquipollicem crassa, digitum circitèr longa, 
fibras deorsùm emittens longas, cylindricas, numerosas, ramulosas. Cauurs solitarius, strictus, teres, 2—4-pedalis, exsulcus, pallidus, e 
basi squamata, pennam cygneam crassa sensim attenuatus, superne gracilis.  Squama paucæ, breves, vaginantes, alternæ, membranaceæ, 
oblongæ, acute, citò emarcescentes. Forra 7 ad 10, infra apicem caulis 3—6-pollicarem disposita in verticillum valdé regularem, 
patentissimum, diametrum usque pedalem emetientem, oblonga, vel cuneato-oblonga, integerrima, gracillimè acuminata, basi acuta 
levitèrque attenuata, 4—6-uncialia, membranacea et tenuia, suprà nitidula, subtòs pallida, 5-nervia, nervis exterioribus tenerrimis, inte- 
rioribus 3 basi contiguis: omnibus venarum transversarum ope remotiusculé anastomosantibus. PetIoLI pollicares vel infrà, cylindrici, 
parüm sulcati, purpurascentes, basi paulló dilatatà caulem amplexantes. Fros terminalis, solitarius, maximus, patentissimus, diametrum 
8-pollicarem sep? attingens, apice caulis nudo, gracili, pollices 3—6 super verticillum foliorum producto pedunculatus, inodorus, 
viridis, involucratus. INvouvcrum perianthium proximé suffultiens, foliaceum, 5—7-phyllum, aliquandò 4-phyllum, rarissime 3-phyllum, 
patentissimum ; foliola figurà et structurá folia ipsa plantæ omninò referentia, iisdem autem duplò triplové minora, deorsüm angus- 
tata, basi lata sessilia, admodüm pallidè viridia. ^ PEnrANTHIUM petaloideum, 5—7-phyllum, nunc numero involucro correspondens 
cumque foliolis ejusdem alternans, nunc numero ab eodem differens et insertione relativå mirum in modum varians; foliola angus- 
tissimè linearia, planiuscula, vix lineam dimidiam lata, basi vix dilatatå cireum ovarium inserta, indè adscendentia, majore parte 
exteriore laxé nutantia, acuta, e lutescenti viridia, 3—4-pollicaria, involucro breviora. STAMINA 5—14, erecta, brevia, ad ambitum 
basis ovarii inserta, foliolis perianthii aut dupló numerosiora, aut numero planè variantia irregularitèrque inserta ; Jilamenta 
subulata, parüm complanata, unguicularia ; antheræ lineares, biloculares, utrinque longitudinalitèr dehiscentes, filamentis parüm lon- 
giores, connectivo lineari, apice brevitèr producto, nudo ; pollen majusculum, globosum, flavum. PrsrILLUM staminibus parüm brevius ; 
ovarium magnum, globoso-ovatum, obsoletè et inzqualitér 5-sulcatum et 5-angulare, vertice plagulå parvå, submarginatè 5-gonå 
notatum, 1-loculare, polyspermum ; ovula seriebus sæpius 5, sulcis ovarii exterioribus correspondentibus, parieti subcarnoso inserta ; 
stylus brevissimus, crassus, scepé per axin ovarii deorsúm continuatus ; stigmata 4 vel 5 carnosa, subulata, subrecurvata, obtusa, 
papilloso-scabrida, subtüs sulcata. Bacca exsucca, coriacea, globosa, obsoletè 5-carinata, pallidé ferruginea vel flavescens, 
cerasi, suffulta et coronata partibus floris emarcidis, 1-locularis, polysperma, plenò maturitate in valvulas 3, 4 vel 5 valdè irregularitèr 
disrupta. PLACENTA 4 vel 5 parietales, membranaceæ, denticulatze, adfigentes semina valdè copiosa, parva, ovalia, vari? angulata, basi 
acutiuscula, subfasciculata, coccinea, cavitatem fructüs prorsüs replentia. INTEGUMENTUM coriaceum, crassiusculum, albumini carnoso, 
aqueo-pallido arctè adherens. EmBryo exiguus, globularis, fuscescens, ad basin seminis extra perispermum situs. 
suprà 
magnitudine 
This very remarkable plant has been described by the late Sir James Edward Smith in Rees's Cyclopædia, under the 
article * Paris,” from specimens received from the late Dr. Hamilton, which he gathered in Nipal in the year 1801, 
where it grows very commonly, delighting, like its Northern relative, in shady and moist woods. Several years 
before I visited that country, my people, who were stationed there under the direction of my zealous friend the 
Honourable Edward Gardner, supplied me with specimens in all stages, of which I forwarded a vast number to the 
late Sir Joseph Banks and Sir J. E. Smith, to Mr. Lambert, and many other botanists. A short account of the struc- 
ture of the seed-vessel was transmitted by me from Nipal to Dr. Hamilton, who inserted it in the Edinburgh Philoso- 
