304 CLVI. LILIACB2B. (J. D. Hooker.) [Smilax. 



f Branches and branchlets acutely angled. 



5. S. rigrida, Wall. Gat. 5120; leaves $-! by i-f in. subsessile 

 orbicular- ovate or ovate-cordate faintly 3-costate, umbels 1-4- fld., sepals 

 elliptic oblong, petals rather narrower 4-5 times longer than the stamens. 

 KunthEnum. v. 164; A.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 105. S. Wallichii, Steud. 

 Nomencl. (not of Kunth). 



EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. 7-10,000 ft. ; Bhotan, 

 Griffith. 



A small erect much branched shrub with small coriaceous leaves, dwarf and 

 densely leafy at high elevations, branches acutely angled, prickles few small ; 

 branchlets slender, distichous. Leaves obtuse acute or apiculate base, rounded or 

 cordate, rarely acute ; petiole decurrent on the branchlets, with 2 minute deciduous 

 setae (cirrhi ?), jointed at the top. Peduncle short, i_| in.; bracts lanceolate, 

 taper-pointed, persistent, laciniate or ciliate ; pedicels unequal ; perianth cupular ; 

 male flowers very small ; sepals and petals membranous ; anthers minute didymous ; 

 fern. fl. rather larger, staminodes 3 ; ovary subglobose, stigmas sessile. Berries 

 i-^ in. diam., black. Closely allied to S. myrtillus, and next to which A.DC. 

 places it though regarding it as most nearly allied to S.ferox. 



6. S. Ittyrtillus* A.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 106 ; leaves 1-1 in. ovate 

 acuminate membranous faintly 3-costate base acute or rounded, petiole 

 T L~ in., articulate above the thickened broad base, peduncle few-fld. and 

 pedicels very slender, sepals and petals subequal oblong three or four times 

 as long as the stamens. 



KHASIA HILLS, Griffith, alt. 4-6000 ft., J. D. H. 8f T. T. NAGA HILLS, alt. 

 7000 ft, Clarke. 



Closely allied to 8. rigida, which it represents in the Khasia, but a more 

 slender plant, with larger more ovate acuminate leaves, more slender short 

 or long peduncled pedicels, and longer but still very short petioles that have a 

 setiform process on each side as in that plant. Berries -1 in. diam., black, 2-3, 

 seeded, on slender pedicels. The Bhotan plant referred here by De Candolle is, I 

 think, certainly S. rigida, which is a more alpine species, unknown in the Khasia. 

 The staminode was solitary in several flowers that I examined. 



'ft Branches and branchlets terete or nearly so. 



7. S. parvifolia, Wall. Cat. 5118; leaves 1-3 in. ovate or ovate- 

 cordate or lanceolate acute or acuminate 3-5-costate often glaucous 

 beneath, base rounded or cordate, petiole y - in. very slender sheathing 

 half way up or more, male umbels few-fld., peduncles and pedicels very 

 slender, bracteoles minute, sepals linear-oblong, petals much narrower, 

 filaments very short. Kunth Enum. v. 163. S. elegans, A.DC. Monogr. 

 Smilax, 107 ; Wall. Cat. 5117 B. S. glaucophylla, Klotzsch in Reise Pr. 

 Wald. Bot. 45, t. 91. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5-8000 ft., from Kashmir eastwards. The KHASIA 

 HILLS, alt. 6000 ft. 



Branches very slender, stiff, terete, smooth, unarmed ; branchlets sometimes 

 furrowed, often zigzag. Leaves very variable in size and shape, acuminate, thin, highly 

 reticulate ; petiole very short, jointed at the top ; sheath often cirrhose. Peduncles 

 and pedicels %-$ in., capillary, the former often thickened and flat in fruit. Umbels 

 few- or many-fld. ; bracteoles lanceolate, very short; flowers minute; sepals and 

 petals ovate-lanceolate ; filaments very short ; anthers didymous ; ovary ovoid, 

 1-3-celled, staminodes 1-3. Berries \-\ in. diam. A very common and variable 

 Himalayan plant. The name parvifolia though appropriate for Wallich's and other 

 specimens is for others delusive. 



