268 CL. ILEMODORACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_0i*liiopogon. 



difficult of definition, and I am not satisfied that all the species here proposed 

 will prove distinct from one another. 



Stem creeping and rooting ; roots not tuberiferous. 



1. O. dracaenoides, Ilook.f. ; stem stout, leaves oblanceolate acumi- 

 nate very many-nerved, petiole slender, racemes about equalling the leaves. 

 Fluggoa, dracsenoides, Baker in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1874, 174; in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xvii. 502. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, and the KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4-6000 ft., J. D. H. 



Stems prostrate, as thick as a goose-quill, closely jointed, clothed at first with 

 green sheaths that have broad scarious margins, rooting and with short tufts of 

 leaves and flowery scapes. Leaves 3-6 in., including the petiole, f-1^ in. broad. 

 Racemes 2-3 in. ; bracts shorter than the flower, which are solitary or fascicled, 

 white or pale lilac, ^-^ in. diam. Perianth segments ovate-oblong j anthers 

 lanceolate, filaments very short; style filiform. Seeds oblong. 



2. O. Clarkei, HooJc. f. ; stem prostrate with a terminal tuft of 

 secundly curved linear leaves which are 8-12 by ^ in., scape short few- 

 fid., flowers | in. diam., filaments one-third the length of the lanceolate 

 anther. ^ 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, J. D. H.-, at llungbee, alt. 6000 ft., Clarke. 



Stems 810 in. long, rigid, as thick as a crow-quill or thicker, bearing one 

 rather slender terminal tuft of very long slender leaves, which are faintly rough 

 beneatb. Scape with the 3-5-fld. raceme curved, 3-4 in. long; bracts ovate- 

 lanceolate, about equalling the pedicels, which are jointed at or near the base. 

 In this species the stem is a long runner bearing a solitary tuft of leaves and 

 scape. 



3. O. reptans, Hook.f. ; stem prostrate with distant tufts of linear 

 leaves which are 6-8 by T y- i n - scape very short slender few-fld. 



KHASIA HILLS, at Nurtiung, alt. 4-6000 ft. J. D. H. GARROW HILLS, alt. 

 4000 ft., Clarke. 



Stems 2-3 tt., prostrate, rather stouter than in 0. Clarkei, rigid. Leaves quite 

 smooth. Scape with fruiting raceme 2-3 in. Seeds ^5 in. diam., subglobose. 

 Very different from 0. Clarkei in habit, the numerous tufts of very narrow 

 shorter leaves, and the very short slender scapes. It closely resembles a Tonkin 

 plant (Balansa n. 4155 bis.). 



** Stems tufted. Soots often tuberiferous. 



4. O* Wallichianus, Hook, f ; rootstock short very stout, leaves 

 6-24 in. by - in., scape stout usually much shorter than the leaves, 

 flowers usually fascicled -| f in. diam., anthers lanceolate, filaments very 

 short broad. O. japonicus, Wall. Cat. 5139 A. O. japonicus, var. Walli- 

 chianus, Maxim, in Bull. Acad. N. S. St. Petersb. ; Mel. biol. vii. 321. 0. 

 longifolius, Decne in Fl. dts Serres, xvii. 182 (ex. Maxim. 1. c.). Muggea 

 Wallichiana, Xuntli Enum. v. 303. F. japonica, var. Wallichiana, Baker 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 501 (excl. syn. Blume & Royle). 



TEMPEBATB and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Kumaon eastward, alt. 

 6-9000 ft. KHASIA HILLS, alt, 4-6000 ft. 



Distinguished from the following by the rootstock, usually as thick as the 

 thumb, sometimes 4-6 in. long, the stout scape longer or shorter than the leaves, 

 and the large flowers. Boots of long cylindric tubes, Leaves often distichous 

 and recurved, nearly quite smooth. Raceme lax or dense-fld., sometimes cylindric, 

 with flowers nearly 1 in. diam.; bracts usually shorter than the flowers; pedicels 



