I. Smilax.] 145. LILIACEM. 



cells separated by a forking of the filament. Fern. fl. with 3 or 6 

 staminodes. Ovary 3-gonous, 3 -celled ; style short or stigmas 

 sessile, stout recurved. Ovules 1 or 2 in each cell, orthotropous, 

 pendulous. Fruit a globose or ellipsoid berry. Seed solitary, or more 

 often 2 hemispheric, rarely 3 ; albumen horny. Embryo small. 

 I. Umbels solitary. Stems unarmed or nearly so. Branches 



unarmed. L. under 6", membranous, 3-costate . . 1. lancecefolia. 



II. Stems prickly, branches prickly or not. Umbels rarely 



solitary. Leaves mostly over 6" : — .... 



A. Umbels 1-3, rarely 5. Sheath not large nor auricled : — 

 Branches terete. L. 6-12", usually very broadly ovate, 



5-9-costate ....... 2. macrophylla. 



Branches 4-angled. L. imder 7", elliptic or ovate- 

 lanceolate, 3-5-costate zeylanica 



B. Sheath with large auricles which often embrace the (p. 1087). 



branch : — 

 Umbels 1-3 very unequally peduncled . . .3. Eoxburghiana. 

 Umbels many, usually verticillate on rhachis . . 4. prolifera. 



1. S. lanceaefolia, Roxb. 



A slender wiry unarmed climber, branches terete or with fine raised 

 lines, not angular. Leaves oblong or ell. -oblong or some ovate-oblong, 

 thin, only up to 3" by 1 • 4" in our specimens, sometimes 4-6" by 1 • 5-3", 

 base obtuse or acute, glossy both sides and slightly translucent- 

 dashed when fresh. Petiole -5", sheath obscure, tendrils from the 

 sides of the older petioles. Umbels solitary axillary, peduncle of 

 inflorescence -2- -3" long with small bracteoles separating it from the 

 proper peduncle of the umbel which is -3- -4" long and pedicels about 

 the same. Berry • 3" diam. 



Ramuagar Hills ! Fl. r.s. Fr. Nov. 



Eather a variable plant if specimens outside our area are considered, with stem* 

 sometimes slightly prickly and some leaves broad. The peduncle of umbel not 

 always diflferentiated into general and special. Male umbels -7- -9" diam. and 

 their peduncles usually simple, naked and short, tepals linear, •12-"25" long. Fem. 

 umbel sub-similar, staminodes 3, ovary obtusely 3-gonous, stigmas short obtuse 

 reciuved. 



2. S. macrophylla, Roxb. Syn. S. ovalifolia, Roxb. ; Atkir, K., S. ; 



Raupawan, Khariv. ; Muter, Rajdantni, Or. 



A stout prickly climber with stems sometimes 1" diam. below, 

 flowering branches mostly unarmed. Leaves broadly elliptic, or 

 orbicular, 6" by 5" to 12" by 12", sheath neither broadly winged nor 

 auricled. Umbels 1-3, rarely 5, in axillary short cymes rarely 3" 

 long on peduncles shorter than the diameter of the umbel, with bracts 

 at the nodes ovate or truncate. 



Common in the damper forests. Champaran ! Purneah ! Chota K'agpur, all 

 districts ! Santal Parg. 1 Mayurbhanj ! Sambalpur ! Fl. April-July. Fr. Nov. 

 -Jan. Subdeciduous in May. 



Prickles small. Branches quite terete or with 4 lines or angled, striate when 

 (\Ty. Leaves with a short hard cusp, base rounded or subcordate, but sometimes 

 suddenly acute and decurrent on the petiole, usually 7-costate, sometimes even 

 9-costate in the larger leaves, 3 ribs often produced on to the petiole, sometimes 

 1-2 adnate to midrib for -5- -7" above the base. Base of petiole sheathing, 

 triangixlar in section, enclosing a hard bud or base of the inflorescence, sheath not 

 broadly winged, but its thin edges often infolded and meeting above at the base 

 of the articulation of the petiole proper where the two cirrhi thus arise almost 

 base to base. Peduncle of inflor. -b-l", proper peduncles of umbels -5-1 -5" in 



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