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CONVALLARIA OPPOSITIFOLIA. OpposiTr- 
LEAVED SoLomon’s SEAL. 
ERK EK EE EE EERE KER EKER 
Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynta. 
( Nat. Ord.—Smmacinz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium campanulatum, vel tubulosum, limbo 6-fido. 
Stamina corolla breviora, filamenta tubo adnata ; anthere 
lineares, recta. Stylus erectus. Bacca spherica, 3-locula- 
ris, loculis dispermis ; seminibus sepe abortivis. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Convatiaria* oppositifolia ; caule tereti, foliis oppositis 
oblongis acuminatis nitidis breviter petiolatis, pedun- 
culis axillaribus umbellatis 3—10-floris nutantibus, 
perianthio tubuloso basi ventricoso. 
Convaxtaria oppositifolia. Wall. in Asiat. Res. v. 13. p. 
380. cum Icone. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 640. Hook. Ex. 
Fl. v. 2. t. 125. 
A very desirable greenhouse plant; for though it has 
been now introduced from Nepal many years, by Dr. 
Watticu, I am not aware that it has been found sufficiently 
hardy to bear the open air of our fickle climate. It is of 
graceful growth, the leaves are of a bright and glossy green ; 
and the copious flowers, which continue for a long time in 
the latter end of the winter months, are elegantly marked 
with reddish lines. 
Descr. Stem a foot to a foot and a half high, erect, 
rounded, simple, green, tinged with red. Leaves copious, 
three 
* From convailis, a valley, in allusion to the place of growth of many of 
the species. 
