526 Prof. Don’s Monograph of Streptopus, &c. 
plexifolius, roseus, and another species, first described by me under the name 
of simplex in the Prodromus Flore Nepalensis. These plants have all a 
peculiar habit, cylindrical leafy stems, broad amplexicaul leaves, glaucous 
beneath, and axillary, solitary, mostly single-flowered peduncles, which in 
amplexifolius are curiously twisted at their middle. The genus undoubtedly 
belongs to the Smilaceæ, and is nearly allied to Convallaria and Smilacina, 
but is essentially distinguished from both by its distinct sepals, each furnished 
with a nectariferous furrow, separate stigmas, and polyspermous berry. With 
Uvularia it accords in habit, and in its solitary, axillary, campanulate flowers ; 
but its innate anthers, furnished with short filaments, baccate pericarpium, 
and noncarunculate seeds, remove it widely from that genus. 
I shall now proceed to the description of the genera, and of the species 
belonging to them. 
STREPTOPUS. Rich. 
Uvuranrg sp. L. 
Perianthium 6-phyllum, petaloideum, campanulatum, aequale, deciduum : 
foliolis æstivatione imbricatis, basi foveà oblongá nectariferà instructis. 
Stamina 6, basi sepalorum adnata, simulque decidua: Jilamenta brevis- 
sima, compressa, dilatata : antheræ erectæ, innatæ, basi subsagittatæ rimâ 
duplici longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium 3-loculare : loculis multi- 
ovulatis: ovulis erectis. Stigmata 3, recurvata. Pericarpium baccatum, 
 membranaceum, 3-loculare: loculis polyspermis. Semina duplici serie 
ordinata, oblonga, curvula, sulcata, testa rugosa subcoriaceá. 
Herbæ (hemisph. bor.) perennes, rhizomate diviso, fibroso, multicipite. Caules 
cylindracei. Folia amplexicaulia, dilatata, multinervia, subtàs glauca. 
Flores axillares, solitarii, pedunculati, cernui, lutescentes, albi v. rosei. 
Bacce globose, rubra. 
1. S. amplexifolius, glaber; pedunculis medio convolutis appendiculatis, se- 
palis obtusé acuminatis, antheris sagittatis acuminatis, stigmate trilobo, 
baccæ loculis 6-spermis. 
Streptopus amplexifolius. Lam. et DeCund. Fl. Franc. iii. p. 174. n. 1856. 
Red. Lil. v. t. 259. Sm. in Rees’ Cyclop. in loco. Duby Bot. Gall. i. p. 459. 
Schult. fil. Syst. vii. p. 310. 
