Prof. Don’s Monograph of Streptopus, &c. 531 
parüm breviora. Bacca rubra? ceteris paulló major: loculis 10—12- 
spermis. Scmina obovata longitudinaliter sulcata, parùm curvula, hinc 
convexa, inde biangulata, chalazâ orbiculatà depressá fuscá apice in- 
structa. 
This interesting and hitherto little-known species is a native of Gosaingthan 
and Kamaon in the Himalaya mountains, where it was gathered by Dr. Wal- 
lich's collectors, and was first described by me in the Prodromus Flore 
Nepalensis. The flowers are considerably larger, and more abundant, and 
the plant is altogether more showy than the amplexifolius, from which its 
straight naked peduncles, blunt sepals and anthers, much longer stigmata, 
and more numerous seeds will readily distinguish it. 
PROSARTES. 
STREPTOPI sp. Mich. 
Perianthium 6-phyllum, petaloideum, campanulatum, quale, deciduum : fo- 
liolis basi foveolatis v. saccatis. Stamina 6, basi sepalorum adnata, 
simulque decidua. Anthere erectæ, innate, obtuse, biloculares, rimá 
duplici marginali longitudinalitér dehiscentes. Ovarium liberum, 3-locu- 
lare: loculis biovulatis: ovulis obovatis, a placentæ apice pendulis ' 
Stigmata 3, brevissima, recurvata. Pericarpium baccatum, 3-loculare. 
Semina solitaria v. rariùs bina. . 
Herba (Amer. bor.) perennes, pube ramosá vestitæ, rhizomate diviso multi- 
cipite. Caules teretiusculi. Folia sessilia, dilatata. Inflorescentia ter- 
minalis, umbellata. Bacca rubra. 
This very natural genus, as I have already stated, forms the transition from 
the Smilaceæ to the Melanthaceæ, and possesses several characters in com- 
mon with Streptopus and Disporum. From the former genus it is essentially 
distinguished by its much more lengthened filaments, binary pendulous ovula, 
and terminal umbellate inflorescence,—characters in which it agrees with 
Disporum ; but it differs from this last in its innate anthers, nearly concrete 
styles, and pendulous seeds. 
The genus is remarkable for its forked pubescence; the hairs are furnished 
with one, rarely with two short branches, which are continuous with the cells 
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