Tas. 8539. 
SMILACINA PanNIcuLATA. 
Guatemala and Southern Mexico. 
Lin1aceaz. Tribe PoLyGoNATEAE. 
Smiuacina, Des/.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 770. 
Smilacina paniculata, Mar‘. et Gal. in Bull. Acad, Brux. vol. ix. p.2; Kunth, 
Enum. Plant. vol. vy. p. 151; Hems/. in Biol. Centr.-Amer. vol. iii. p. 358 ; 
species 8. thyrsoideae, Hemsl., affinis, inflorescentiae ramis_ brevioribus, 
floribus paucioribus e pedicellis longioribus suberectis orientibus distin- 
guitur. 
Herba glabra. Caulis erectus, cylindricus, virescens. Folia ovato-lanceolata, 
longe acuminata, 13 ci. longa, prope basin 4 cm. lata, ima basi constricta ; 
nervi primarii 5-7, nervulis pluribus tenuibus counexi. Panicula termi- 
nalis, racemosim ramosa, 6 cm. longa lataque, omnino nivea; bracteolae 
minutae, deltvideae; pedicelli circiter 1 cm. longi; flores 1 cm. diametro. 
Perianthii segmenta elliptica, apice rotundata, patentia. Filamenta aequi- 
longa, quam perianthii segmenta paullo breviora. Ovariwm ovoideum ; 
stylus columnaris, staminibus aeqnilongus; stigma punctiforme.— Tovaria 
paniculata, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot., vol. xiv. p. 568.—C. H. Wricut. 
~ The genus Smilacina, which includes some twenty species, 
extends from the north temperate and subarctic regions of 
Japan, Siberia and North America as far south as to Arabia 
in the Old World and Guatemala in the New. One of the 
species, S. bifulia, Desf., is a rare British plant. Three 
members of the genus have already been figured in this 
work, but all of them under different generic names. At 
t. 899 will be found S. Fourskaliana, Schultes f., a native of 
Arabia, under the name Convallaria racemosa, Forsk. ; this 
resembles the subject of our illustration, but differs in having 
very short pedicels. At t. 1043, under the name Conval- 
laria stellata, Linn., a figure was given of S. stellata, Desf., 
the Star-flowered Lily of the Valley, from North America, 
which was introduced into English gardens in 1633, At 
t. 6313, under the name Jovaria oleracea, Baker, is given a 
portrait of the Himalayan S. oleracea, Hook. f. & Thoms., a 
species with short hairy pedicels. The generic name which 
was used by Mr. Baker was proposed by Necker in 1790, 
and is older by seventeen years than the name Smilacina, 
now accepted, which was introduced by Desfuntaines in 
Fesruany, 1914. 
