PeHosanthes.] CL. H^EMODOEACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 267 



nate iu Andrews' drawing, acute in that of the " Botanical Magazine." A very 

 little-known plant. Maingay's specimens accord with the figures but they are 

 flowerless. 



8. P. Bakeri, HooJc. f. ; dwarf, leaves elliptic-lanceolate 5-7-nerved, 

 petiole slender, scape very short, raceme short, bracts subulate-lanceolate 

 all or the lower much longer than the small pedicelled flowers. P. humilis, 

 Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 505 (excl. Penang). 



EASTEBN HIMALAYA, alt. 1-6000 ft., J. D. H. ; Clarke \ Mishmi Hills, 

 Griffith. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 3-5000 ft., J. D. H. & T. T. 



Leaves 4-7 by 1-2 in., thin, subcaudately acuminate; petiole as long. Raceme 

 hardly exceeding the petiole ; pedicels sometimes in. long, and lower bracts nearly 

 | in. ; perianth in. diam., green or lurid purple (Cfarke). Seeds small, oblong. 

 There are cultivated specimens in Wallich's Herbarium from the Calcutta Botanical 

 Garden under No. 5083 D. 



9. P. albida, Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 7110; leaves stoutly petioled 

 5-8-nerved, scape very short, raceme very long many-fld., bracts subulate- 

 lanceolate longer than the small white shortly pedicelled flowers. 



PEN AN &; Curtis. 



Leaves 12 by 1J-2 in., elliptic-lanceolate* caudate-acuminate, nerves strong ; 

 petiole about half as long as the blade. Raceme longer than' the petiole, stout, 

 strict, white ; lower bracts in. long, narrow ; flowers deflexed ; perianth in. 

 diam. ; outer segments broadly ovate, inner orbicular-obovate ; anthers very small 

 within the much contracted mouth of the low truncate stamiual tube. Ovarian cells 

 about 5-ovuled. Style short, columnar, stigma 3-lobed. 



3. OPHIOPOGON, Ecr. 



Scapigerous herbs. Stem short from a short rootstock or elongate 

 subscandent. Leaves linear or lanceolate parallel-nerved. Scape leafy or 

 leafless, flowers racemed ; bracts scarious, usually many-fld. Perianth 

 superior, segments spreading. Stamens 6, on the bases of the segments, 

 filaments short, erect ; anthers basifixed. Ovary inferior, 3-celled, crown 

 fiat or depressed; style columnar, stigma 3-toothed ; ovules 2 in each cell, 

 collateral, erect, anatropous. Fruit indehiscent. Seeds few, as in Pelio- 

 sanihes, testa fleshy or succulent. Species 8 or 10, East Asiatic. 



Ophiopogon was established in 1807 by Ker-Gawler (Bot. Mag. t. 1063) on. 

 the figure of a plant supposed to be the Convallaria japonica ft minor of Thuuberg 

 (Fl. Jap. 140), and to which Gawler gave the name of 0. japonicus, referring to it 

 the C. japonica of Decaudolle in Redoute's Liliac. ii. t. 80 (Gawler's description is, 

 however, that of a third plant). Judging from the figures, Gawler's and Decaudolle's 

 are not of the same species. Gawler's has blue flowers, linear-oblong perianth seg- 

 ments, and liuear-oblong obtuse anthers; Redoute's has much smaller white flowers, 

 ovate perianth-segments, and longer acute anthers. Both differ from any Indian 

 species (except, perhaps, that mentioned at the end of thegenus of which there are no 

 flowers) in their small size, very short scape, and above all in the very short fusiform 

 6-grooved style, which was observed by Don (Prodr. 48) but overlooked by subsequent 

 authors. Specimens of both are in Kew Herb. ; that of Gawler, from Japan, is 0. 

 japonicus Gawl. genuinus of Maximovicz ; the other is a continental garden specimen 

 from Herb. Gay of what is clearly the plant figured in liedoute, and which is also 

 figured in Schrader's Neues Journ. t. 1 as Fluggea japonica, Rich. 



0. japonicus hence disappears from the Flora of British India; all the Indian 

 species having slender styles; but 1 am not prepared to say whether or no any 

 other Iiidiau.species may be identical with Japanese. They are extremely variable and 



