145. LILIACE.E. [10. Gloriosa. 



foliaceous bracts, panicle narrow, 3-10" long, with suberect branches, lower 

 longest bearing one or more short close racemes of nodding flowers with oblong 

 tepals •25-'3" long, chiefly remarkable for their stamens, the top of each filament 

 being suddenly expanded and of an orange or yellow colour as is the ■12"-long 

 anther. Pedicels S-o" jointed under the flower. Berry 3-celled with 1-2 

 oblong-ovoid black shining compressed seeds "IT" long in each cell. 

 The flowers open in the evening and close the following morning. 



9. DISPORUM, Sallsb. 



Erect, sometimes almost suffruticose, herbs with creeping rootstock 

 and angular leafy often 2-chotomously branched stems. Leaves 

 sessile or sub-sessile rather strongly nerved. Flowers in terminal or 

 axillary few-fid, umbels with decurved pedicels. Perianth cam- 

 panulate, deciduous, with 6 erect segments, base saccate or spurred. 

 Stamens 6, hypogynous, wdth dorsifixed extrorse anthers. Ovary 

 3-celled with long or short style and 3 short stigmas. Ovules 2-6 in 

 each cell. Fruit a pisiform black fleshy berry. Seeds few, subglobose 

 with appressed testa, brown. 



1. D. puUum, Salisb. 



A stout herb 3-4 ft. high dichotomously branched above, stem -3" 

 diam. below. Leaves alternate and opposite ovate-lanceolate 3-5" by 

 1-1 • 6", acute or acuminate, stronger nerves about 6-8, petiole very 

 short decurrent as a raised line on the stem. Flowers about 5-6 in a 

 short-peduncled deflexed umbel on angled or fluted decurved 1-1-5"- 

 long pedicels Avhich are very scabrid on the angles. Fruit black 

 depressed sub-trigonously globose, -3" cliam., with 1 seed only in each 

 cell. 



Shady banks and along nalas usually over 1000 ft. elev. Forests of Singbhiun, 

 chieflv Porahat ! Ranchi, ]Veterhat, 3000 ft. ! Parasnath, 3000 ft. ! Fl. r.s. 

 Fr. Oct.-Dec. 



I have not seen the fresh periantli, the plant being always in fruit when I have 

 met with it. It is • 7- • 8" long, and described as wliite or dull purple with spathulate 

 or lanceolate acute or acuminate segments which are saccate or subsaccate at the 

 base. The seeds are light broAra, orbicular-oblong, -2" long. 



10. GLORIOSA, L. 



Stems from a tuberous naked rootstock, leafy, scrambling or climb- 

 ing by the cirrhose leaf-tips. Leaves alternate, opposite or 3-nately 

 whorled, lanceolate, with prominent midrib and elongate spiral tip. 

 Flowers large, axillary, solitary and subcorymbose, slightly irregular. 

 Perianth persistent, tepals 6 subequal, narrow, spreading or reflexed, 

 often waved or crisped. Stamens 6, hypogynous with filiform 

 filaments and linear dorsifixed versatile extrorse anthers. Ovary 

 3-celled with slender style sharply bent upw^ards, dividing at tip into 

 3 filiform or subulate introrsely stigmatose lobes. Ovules many. 

 Fruit a large coriaceous septicidal capsule. Seeds subglobose with 

 spongy testa and cylindric embryo. 



1. G. superba, L. Bunum-ki-chung, Bing-ki-chung, K. ; Jagara, 



M. ; Sinic' samansom, S. ; Karihari, Khanv. ; Kariari-bishalanguri, 

 Beng. 

 A beautiful and well-knowai plant 3-10 ft. high, scrambling among 



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