15. AsFHODELus.] 145. LILIACEJE. 



jointed below the middle. Bracts scarious, -1" long. Perianth seg- 

 ments with a brownish costa, filaments fusiform-tipped. Capsule 

 globose, -IS-- 17" diam. with deeply transversely wrinkled valves. 

 Seeds 3-gonous, with 3-4 dorsal ridges and as many lateral pits. 



In cultivated fields, Singbhuni ! Behar, 1000 ft. J.D.Tl. ! Common in corn- 

 fields in the United Provinces and extending into Bengal. Fl., Fr. May-June. 



16. CHLOROPHYTUM, Ker. 



Herbs with a short rhizome and often fascicled fleshy or tuberous 

 roots, radical clustered often broad leaves, more rarely loriform or 

 linear, and leafless simple or branched scapes. Flowers white, pedi- 

 celled, usually several in the axils of the bracts, densely or laxly 

 racemed, sometimes sub-panicled. Bracts small or large. Perianth 

 marcescent, not twisted, sometimes finally deciduous from the fruit, 

 segments distinct, rotate 3-7-nerved. Stamens 6, hypogynous or 

 very shortly adnate to the base of the petals, shorter than the perianth 

 with filiform filaments usually dilated above the middle ; anthers 

 linear or oblong, erect, inserted by their base or dorsally by a small 

 pit in the connective, introrse. Ovary sessile, 3-quetrous, 3-celled 

 with filiform style and small stigma. Ovules 4-many in each cell. 

 Fruit a coriaceous or fleshy capsule, truncate 3-lobed and acutely 

 angled, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds broad, more or less com- 

 pressed, not angled,* with black testa. Embryo rather shorter than 

 the cartilaginous albumen, often incurved. 



A. Leaves 1-2-5" wide. Perianth white -3- -6" long: — 

 Eacemes continuous, often' subpyramidal with short 



branches at base. Tepals oblong-lanceolate, mostly 

 acute. Bracts far overtopping the buds . . .1. arundinaceum. 

 Racemes strict interrupted. Tepals elliptic rounded. 



Bracts mostly shorter than the buds . . . .2. tuberosum. 



B. Leaves linear under -5" wide. Perianth greenish- white 



under • 25" long ....... 3. laxum. 



1. C. arundinaceum, Baker. Jerenarak', S. ; Bis-Kandri, H. 



Rather a pretty herb when young with suberect lanceolate many- 

 nerved leaves and erect dense-flowered racemes or contracted panicles 

 of Avhite star-like flowers -7- -9" diam., the tepals oblong-lanceolate 

 and usually acute, anthers as long or longer than the filaments, 

 straight, green to yellow. Bracts usually long and overtopping the 

 shortly pedicelled buds. 



Monghyr, Ham. ! Very common in Sal forests in all districts of Chota Nagpur 

 ascending to the tops of the pats (3000 ft) ! Fl. March-July. Fr. c.s.' 



Stems stout truncate at base, with many long fibres at the ends of which are 

 thick cylindrical tubers 3-1-5" long by -5- -6" diam. greyish-white within. L. at 

 first short with very broad amplexicaul base, often up to 15" by 2-5" while plant 

 is in flower ; ultimately the growing base becomes narrower so that the leaf may 

 become oblanceolate. Scape 6" to 15", also elongating with age, very dense- 

 flowered, raceme sometimes with strict erect branches at base and flowers 2-several 

 in the axils of the lanceolate-acuminate bracts. Lower bracts 1" or more, or in 

 some specimens short but 5-more-nerved, mostly green. Pedicels -15- -2" jointed 



* Hooker says " rugose." They may be in some species, but this is perhaps 

 from herbarium specimens. The seeds of our species are certainly not rugose 

 when fresh. 



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