322 CLVI. LiLiACEJ). (J. D. Hooker.) [Polygonatum. 



i | in., greenish or lilac ; tube slender. Stamens inserted above tbe middle of 

 the tube, anthers subsessile. Style as long as the ovary. Berry % in. diam., 

 6-10-seeded. Seeds globose. There is a tendency in the leaves of some specimens 

 to become circinate at the tip, thus passing into the following. 



12. P. cirrifolium, Boyle 111. 380; stem flexuous often climbing 

 by the tips of the leaves terete puberulous or glabrous, leaves 3-6-nately 

 whorled sessile membranous with slender circinate tips, peduncles 2-4-fld. 

 whorled, perianth subcylindric. Kunth Enum. v. 145. Maxim. Diagnos. xi. 

 854 P. sibiricum, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 501 in part. Convallaria 

 cirrifolia, Wall, in Asiat. Research, xiii. 382 with a figure ; Gat. 5136 ; Don 

 Prodr. 47. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Simla eastward to Bhotan, alt. 5-11,000 ft. 

 MUNNIPOBE, alt. 4000 ft. DISTRIB. Northern Asia. 



Stem 2-4 ft., very weak ; flexuous. Leaves 3-5 in., gradually narrowed into the 

 slender revolute tips, glaucous and costate beneath. Flowers white green or purplish. 

 Stamens inserted above the middle of the tube, filaments ciliolate. Style as long as 

 the ovary. Berry 55 in. diam., excessively variable in size and in the number of 

 seeds; in some specimens from Simla, the seeds are in. diam. Baker has 

 included this under P. sibiricum, probably rightly, but Maximovicz does not. 



13. P. Kingianum, Collett fy Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 

 1381, t. 21 ; very robust, leaves 5-nately whorled or 2-3-nate sessile 

 coriaceous linear-lanceolate with a thick circinate apex, peduncles 

 1-3-fld., perianth subcylindric. 



BURMA ; in the Shan hills, alt. 4000 ft., Collett. 



A much stouter plant than P. cirrifolium, with thick leaves, and flowers three- 

 fourths of an inch long ; perianth lobes very short ; anthers large inserted above 

 the middle of the tube, filaments very short. Only one specimen seen. 



TJNDESCRIBED SPECIES. 



P. iNGLBSir, Royle 111. 380, from Raldung. 



5. STREPTOPUS, Michaux. 



RootstocTc creeping. Stem leafy. Leaves alternate, sessile or amplex- 

 icaul. Flowers axillary. Perianth campanulate or open, segments 

 deciduous. Stamens hypogynous or 3 inner adnate to the bases of the 

 segments ; filaments broad at the base, tip acute ; anthers erect, basifixed 

 between the lobes, connective sometimes produced. Ovary sessile ; style- 

 arms 3 stigmatose within ; cells many-ovuled. Berry subglobose. Seeds 

 many, oblong, curved, striate ; testa thin adnate ; embryo cylindric. 

 Species 4, N. temp, regions. 



S. simplex, Don Prodr. 48, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 530; leaves 

 amplexicaul ovate-cordate glaucous beneath, flowers solitary or 2-nate. 

 Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 591. S. candidus, Wall. Cat. 5572. 

 Hekorima Candida, Kunth Enum. iv. 204. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Kumaon eastwards to Sikkim, alt. 8-12,000 ft. 



Rootstock small. Stem 2-3 ft., flexuous, forked. Leaves 2-4 in., membranous, 

 many-nerved. Flowers in most of the axils, 1 in. diam., white; pedicels 2-3 in., 

 filiform ; segments erecto-patent, oblong. Stamens much shorter than the perianth ; 

 anthers oblong, twice as long as the deltoid filaments. Style short. Berry i in. 

 diam., 5-6-seeded. 



