scribed at t. 916 of the “ Botanical Magazine’ as Uvularia 
chinensis, Ker-Gawl., and the plant now figured, though it 
differs sufficiently from the original type of D. pullum 
to deserve a separate plate, hardly merits, in the present 
state of our knowledge, the status of a distinct species. 
Sir Joseph Hooker has referred in the “ Flora of British 
India’ to the difficulty met with in the discrimination, 
from herbarium material alone, of the various forms that 
occur in the genus Disporum. In the case of those forms 
generally included in D. pullum this difficulty is especially 
great, and this species, as now understood, contains a 
number of more or less distinct states differing from each 
other in the width and degree of pubescence of the 
leaves, the length of the peduncle, the size of the flower, 
and the colour of the perianth-segments which varies 
from white to deep-purple. In the form here figured 
there is another marked distinction; the perianth- 
segments, instead of being straight, at length spread 
stellately towards their tips. For this reason it is now 
provisionally accorded the rank of a distinct variety, 
whose name, brunnea, is derived from the circumstance 
that these segments are of the purplish-brown colour 
indicated at n. 72 of the “Code des Couleurs ”’ of Messrs. 
Klincksieck and Valette. 
Description.—Herb, with a glabrous, branching stem. Leaves lanceolate, 
acuminate, 2} in. long, 2-2 in, wide, rounded at the base, glabrous above, 
puberulous beneath and along the margin ; lateral nerves 7-9 on each side the 
midrib, 2 sometimes 8 of them resembling the central nerve ; petiole sheathing, 
2 in, long. Peduncle } in. long, puberulous, 3-5-flowered ; pedicels nodding, 
about 1 in, long, with distinct longitudinal papillose lines. Perianth composed 
of 6 oblanceolate, acuminate, distinctly keeled segments, saccate at the base, 
with the margin of the upper two-thirds finely denticulate, spreading at the 
tip, purplish-brown, 14 in. long,3in. wide. Filaments subulate, pale green, 
3 in. long; anthers dorsifixed near the base, sagittate, acute,} in. long. Ovary 
obconic, green, } in. long, 2, in. across ; style cylindric, white, over } in. long ; 
cellntonal aa rved, 3 in. long, stigmatic on the inner face; ovules geminate, 
. 
Tas. 8807.—Fig. 1, outer perianth-segment, and stamen seen from within ; 
2, inner perianth-segment ; 3, stamen ; 4, pistil :—all enlarged. 
