792 DIOECIA HEXANDRIA. Slililax. 



1. S, glabra. li. 



Scandent. Stem and branches unarmed, columnar, polish- 

 ed. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, rounded at the base, polish- 

 three-nerved, glaucous underneath. Umbellets axillary, 

 simple, sessile, solitary. Calycine leaflets broad, obcordate ; 

 sessile. 



A native of the Silhet district, and of the adjacent Gar- 

 row country, where it is called Huxiwa or Harina-shook- 

 China, Its root is large and tuberous, and not to be distin- 

 guished by the eye, from the medicinal drug' brought from 

 China, under the name of China root. The natives of the above 

 countries use a decoction of the fresh root annually, for the 

 cure of sores and venereal complaints. It flowers about the 

 end of the rains, and the seed ripens in the hot season. It is 

 remarkable for its broad, obcordate, calycine leaflets, and 

 large, two-lobed, sessile anthers. The flower-buds are broad 

 and three-lobed. 



2. S. lanceceJoHa, R. 



Scandent. Stem and branches unarmed, columnar, polish- 

 ed. Leaves lanceolar, three-nerved, polished. Umbellets 

 simple, axillary, solitary, peduncled. Calycine segments li- 

 near, oblono;. 



Gootea-shook-China the vernacular name amongst the 

 people of the eastern frontier, where the plant is indigenous, 

 and its large tuberous roots much used in medicine; they are 

 so like those of the Smilax China as not to be distinouished 

 by the eye. It cannot therefore be Louriero's S. lanceolata, 

 which he says has a long filiform root, not tuberous. By the 

 natives where the plants grow, the juice of the fresh root is 

 taken inwardly for the cure of rheumatic pains, and the re- 

 fuse after extracting the juice, laid over the parts most pain- 

 ed. The whole plant, root included, is very much like my 

 glabra, except in the structure of the flowers. 



3. S. Pseudo-China. Willd. iv. 785. 



Scandent. Stem and branches unarmed, columnar, smooth. 



