Smilacee.] THE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS. 381 
and S. glabra ; the former called by the natives gotee-shook-China, and the latter hurria- 
shook-China, both having tuberous roots like the Chinese Smilax China. In Silhet are 
also found S. Rotburghiana, Wall. (S. laurifolia, Roxb.), which is called koomari or 
koomari-shook-China, and S. oxyphylla, which is called chotee (or small koomaree.). Under 
S. prolifera more than one species is probably included in the E. I. Herbarium. These 
are found in Burma, Chittagong, Silhet, Oude, and Nepal. Besides this, S. rigida 
and feror are other Nepal species ; as is S. elegans, which extends north to the Deyra 
Doon, and S. maculata, (v. Tab. 94. fig. 1.) which is found in Nepal, Kemaon, and on 
Mussooree. On the latter mountain, and other parts of the hills,*occurs S. Villandia, 
Wall. Cat. 5123, (v. Tab. 94. fig. 2.) found by Dr. Hamilton on the Morung Hills. 
Of the genera appended to Similacee, several belong to the Indian Flora: as of the 
Aspidistre@, which includes Rhodea, the Orontium japonicum of authors ; Tupistra, ot which 
the first species, 7. squalida, is figured Bot. Mag. 1655 ; and the second, 7. nutans,Wall. 
Bot. Reg. t. 1223, is from the confines of Silhet, where it is called kala teetee. In the 
E. I. Herbarium are also two doubtful species, one 7. aurantiaca, from Nepal, Wall. Cat. 
5194, Ic.ined. 263, which may indeed form a new genus; the second is 7’ Singa- 
poriana. Aspidistra includes the S. of China and Japan species of this tribe, which 
_have their flowers solitary, instead of in dense spikes. 
The Roxburghiacee of Drs.Wallich and Lindley, are only admitted here as an allied 
tribe with a query, whether they are not allied to MJethonica. There are two species 
of the genus; the first, R. gloriosoides of Dryander, Roxb. Corom., t. 32, a native of moist 
valleys among the mountains of the Peninsula, where it is called canipoo taja by the 
Telingas. The second species, R. viridiflora, with stems sometimes one hundred fathoms 
long, was discovered in the Chittagong district by Dr. Hamilton. This was first figured 
by Sir J. Smith in Ex. Bot. t.57, and subsequently by Dr.Wallich, t. 282, with a full 
carpological account of the genus by Dr. Lindley. It is the Stemona tuberosa ot 
Loureiro, and the Ubiwm polypoides of Rumphius, Herb. Amb. V. t. 129, by whom it is 
figured among the Dioscoreas, though he says its roots are’only eaten when preserved 
in syrup, the acridity being previously removed by boiling and by soaking in 
lime water. Hence this genus is like so many others, common to the tropical parts of 
India, Siam, Cochin-china, and the Moluccas. 
In Ophiopogonee, Endlicher has united Pediosanthes with the genus from which the 
sub-tribe is named ; the two resembling each other in their berries, while ripening, 
bursting their covering, and exposing the seeds naked to attain full maturity. Pedio- 
santhes Teta (Teta viridiflora, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. p. 165), is a native of Chittagong and 
Silhet. It was found by Finlayson in Turon. P. humilis, Bot. Reg. 634, is a species 
from Penang, and a third has been obtained from the Burma territories. 
Ophiopogon is a genus common to Japan, China, and the Himalayas, extending also 
into the Malayan Peninsula. O. japonicus was referred by Linneeus to Convallaria, and 
another species was formed into a new genus, Liriope, by Loureiro. His L. spicata, 
from Cochin-china, is no doubt the Convallaria spicata of Thunberg, now Ophiopogon 
spicatus, 
