C/ihrophyfum.] LlHaceCB. 289 



D. Zieschenaultianum, D. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 1518 



<i840. 



D. zeylanicum, Wight, Ic. vi. 26. Thw. Enum. 338. C. P. 2319. 



Fl. B. Ind.vi. 360. Wight, Ic. tt. 2048, 2049 (Z?. ceylanicum and myso- 

 rense). Bot. Mag. t. 6935. 



Stem 1-2 ft, acutely angled, simple below, and clothed 

 with broad sheathing scales, dichotomously branched above ; 

 1, 1-4 by 1-2 in., orbicular, oblong, oval or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute, acuminate, cuspidate, or almost caudate, strongly 

 5-veined, plicate between the veins, cross venules distinct ; 

 perianth subcampanulate, J-f in. across the mouth, segm. 

 oblong to linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, base hardly 

 saccate, rather thick, dorsally obtusely keeled ; fil. stout, about 

 as long as the anth., but very variable ; berry f in. diam., 

 depressed-globose, dark blue ; seeds globose. 



Montane zone in open places in forests; common. Fl. May-Sept.; 

 Avhite. 



Also in S. Indian Mts. 



6. CKIiOROPKYTVBI, Ker. 

 Rootstock short, with fascicled, fleshy, or tuberous roots ; 1. 

 radical, crowded, petioled, linear, or lanceolate ; fl. racemose, 

 on an erect, leafless, simple, or branched ped. ; perianth rotate, 

 6-partite, segm. lanceolate or oblong, 3-7-veined ; stam. 6, 

 biseriate, hypogynous, or the inner series adnate to the bases 

 of the segm., shorter than the per.-segments, anth. linear, 

 erect, slits introrse, fil. inserted in a pore between the bases 

 of the cells ; ov. sessile, triquetrous, 3-celled, cells few- or 

 many-ovuled, style filiform, stigma simple, ovules anatropous ; 

 fr. coriaceous, triquetrous, loculicidal ; seeds compressed, 

 rugose, testa black, embryo in the axis of hard endosperm. — 

 Sp. about 40; 1 1 in Fl. B. Ind. 



L. oblanceolate i. C. Heyneanum. 



L. linear 2. C. laxum. 



I. C. Heyneanum, Wall Cat. 5060(1828). 



Atithericum tuberosum., Moon, Cat. 25. C. breviscapum, Thw. 

 Enum. 339 (non Dalz.). C. Heynei, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 322. 

 C. P. 2291. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 333. 



Rootstock stout, cylindric, with several fleshy root-fibres ; 

 stem, very short; 1. 6-12 by 1-2 in., spreading and recurved, 

 oblanceolate, acuminate, narrowed into the petiole ; petiole 

 2-6 in., deeply channelled, base hardly sheathing; infl. much 

 shorter than the 1., ped. A-3 in., stout, erect, raceme 3-5 in., 



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