436 
Plants of the Punjab. ® 
Herrss, UNBRANCHED, WITH OpposITE EXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES, 
Polygonatum 
geminiflorum, 
LILIACE. 
F. B. I. vi. 320. 
Himalaya, 
7-11,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Polygonatum 
verticillatum, 
Whorled Solomon’s 
Seal, 
Mitha dudia, 
shakakal. 
LILACES. 
BOBO 1L. ‘vi. 821. 
Himalaya, 
6-11,000 ft. 
Simla, Mashobra, 
Narkanda (Collett). 
Fagu, Kashmir. 
Polygonatum 
cirrifolium, 
Hemerocallis fulva, 
LILIAOE A. 
F. B. I. vi. 326. 
The Himalaya. 
PETALS NONE, 
each stamen, stamens much longer than the teeth of the 
cup, cup 3-1 in. long, style thread-like, longer than the 
stamens, stigma small; capsule large, 8-angled, seeds 
angled. 
_ medium size, perennial, rootstock horizontal, stem 
zigzag, rounded ; leaves 2-4 in., oblong or linear-oblong, 
green with a bluish waxy gloss ; flowers 4 in., white and 
green, 2 on each main stalk, }-3 in., calyx tube white, 
cylindric, lobes 6, green, much shorter than the tube, 
anthers 6, inserted above the middle of the tube, nearly 
sessile, style linear, straight, stigma small, berry round, 
blue-black, 8-celled, seeds nearly round, 2 in each cell. 
like the last species, but larger, leaves arranged round 
the stem in fours or eights, sometimes curled up at the tip, 
stem grooved, flowers 2-8 on one stalk. The root is eaten 
as @ food in the Kurram Valley and exported to Kabul and 
Peshawar, 
see Climbing Plants, Opposite, Exstipulate. 
large, perennial, rootstock short with fleshy root 
fibres ; leaves 12-24 by 1-14 in., radical, linear, ribbed, 
waxy bluish-green beneath; flowers 1-2 in. diam., orange 
yellow in a few branching raceme on a long naked main 
Hower stalk, calyx funnel-shaped, segments 6 in 2 tubes, 
outer shorter than the inner, outer segments orange yellow, 
oblong, short-pointed, inner very much broader, recurved, 
stamens 6 inserted at the mouth of the tube, protruding, 
style thread-like, bent down; capsule 8-celled, leathery, 
seeds black, shining, angled. This plant is eultiyated 
throughout India, 
