410 HiEMODORACEi^. 



H/EMODORACE/E. 



A small family very similar to the LILIACE^E but 

 differing in the petals and sepals being joined at the 

 base into a perianth tube, the ovary and fruit being more 

 or less inferior, and the embryo not surrounded by 

 endosperm but intruded into it. 



Several genera including the one here are by some placed in 



the LILIACE^. 



OPHIOPOGON. F.B.I. 150 III. 



Herbs with stout perennial rhizome, narrow radical 

 leaves and leafless flower-stem. Ovary inferior. Sepals 

 and petals free above it, spreading widely. Stamens six, 

 attached to the base of the sepals and petals, and shorter 

 than them. Anthers linear, longer than their filaments, 

 opening at the sides. 



Species 4 in India eastern Asia and Japan. 



Ophiopogon intermcdius Don ; F.B.I, vi 269, III 5. 

 Leaves all from the rootstock narrow and grass-like. 

 Flowering stem up to 1 5 inches: flowers pendulous in a 

 loose raceme. Bracts J4 inch. Pedicel Yz inch. Corolla 

 J^ inch. Ovary deeply six-lobed. Style grooved. 



On the outskirts of our area. Nilgiris : Kotagiri. Pulneys : 

 below Kodaikanal, Shembaganur, etc., rare above. Fyson 504, 

 266. Bourne 403, 574. 



Gen. Dist. Himalayas, Khasia, and West Coast hills. 

 The species was founded on the Nepal plant from which ours appears 

 to me indistinguishable. 



AMARYLLIDACE/E. 



Herbs with perennial rootstock or bulb, mostly radi- 

 cal leaves, and usually perfectly regular flowers with 

 three sepals and three petals (or six similar parts), six 

 stamens, an inferior ovary of three cells each with 



