Tas. 8807,. 
DISPORUM PpuLtLuM, var. BRUNNEA. 
China. 
Linuceak, Tribe UvVULARIEAR. 
Disporum, Salish. ; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 831. 
Disporum pullum, Salisb., var. brunnea, C. H. Wright ; varietas notabilis, 
a typo segmentis perianthii longioribus apice explanatis distinguenda. 
Herba. Cdulis ramosus, glaber. Folia lanceolata, acuminata, 6°5 cm. longa, 
1‘5-2 em. lata, basi rotundata, supra glabra, marginibus facieque inferiore 
puberulis ; nervi laterales utrinsecus 7-9, quorum 2, raro 3, costam mediam 
referentes, caeteris crassiores ; petioli vaginati, 4mm. longi. Pedunculus 
8 mm. longus, puberulus, 3-5-florus; pedicelli nutantes, usque ad 2°5 cm, 
longi, costis longitudinalibus papillatis instructi. Perianthit segmenta 
oblanceolata, acuminata, distincte carinata, basi saccata, marginibus parte 
superiore minute denticulata, apice explanata, purpureo-brunnea, 2°8 cm. 
longa, 6 mm. lata. Filamenta subulata, dilute viridia, 1°5 em. longa; 
antherae prope basin dorsifixae, sagittatae, acutae, 4 mm. longae. Ovariwm 
obconicum, viride, 8 mm. altum, 2 mm. diametro; stylus cylindricus, 
albus, 1°4 cm. longus; rami 3, recurvi, 6 mm. longi, facie interiore 
stigmatici ; ovula geminata, collateralia, erecta.—C. H. WricHrt. 
The Disporum now figured is a native of Western 
Hupeh, where it was first met with by Mr. E. H. Wilson. 
The plant from which our plate has been prepared 
flowered in 1917 in the collection of Miss E. A. Willmott, 
Warley Place, where seeds obtained by Wilson had been 
received from the Arnold Arboretum. Only one of these 
seeds, we learn from Miss Wilmott, germinated in her 
garden. The resulting plant throve well in good sandy 
loam in a sheltered and partially shaded border with a 
south-western exposure. A few flowers only were 
produced during the first season after planting out; 
since then, however, the plant has flowered freely each 
year and has ripened seeds well, thus admitting of ready 
propagation. Care has, however, to be taken to protect 
the ripening fruits against attack by birds. The genus 
Disporum was based by Salisbury in 1812 on a Chinese 
plant, Disporum pullum, which had been already de- 
Aprit-Jounz, 1919, 
