324 CLVI. LILIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Smilacina. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; in woods alt. 9-11,000 ft., J. D. H. y &c. 



Rootstock short. Stem 2-5 ft., stout, flexuous. Leaves 3-8 in., pale beneath 

 and 6-9-nerve'l. Panicle 3-12 in., oblong or deltoid, many-fld. , branches flexuous, 

 pedicels -\ in. Perianth -i-| in. diarn., segments serrulate. Filaments deltoid. 

 Style very short, 3-cuspidate. Berry $ in. diam. A favourite pot-herb with the 

 Lepchas of Sikkiin. 



7. THEROPOGON, Maxim. 



Rootstock branched with thick root fibres. Leaves radical, linear, bases 

 enclosed in sheaths, costate. Scape axillary from the lower leaves, 

 naked. Flowers iu-d, terminal raceme, small, rose-cold., nodding. Perianth 

 globosely campanulate ; segments subequal, broadly ovate, broadly im- 

 bricate. Stamens inserted at the base of the segments, included ; 

 filaments short, broadly obovoid, fleshy, incurved ; anthers basifixed 

 between the lobes, ovoid, acute, cells spreading over the top of the fila- 

 ment, erect. Ovary sessile ; style filiform, acute, stigma minute ; cells 

 6-10-ovuled. Berry subglobose. Seeds few or several, subglobose, testa 

 thin adnate ; embryo straight or curved. 



1. T. pallidus, Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Petersb. xv. 89 ; Baiter in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 562; Bot. Mag. t. 6154. Ophiopogon? pallidus, 

 Wall. Cat. 5138 ; Eunih Enum. v. 200. O. brevifolius, Royle mss. ? 0. 

 mollis, Royle III. 382 (name). 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Kumaon, alt. 6000 ft. to Sikkim, alt. 6-10,000 ft. 

 KHASTA HILLS, alt. 5-6000 ft. 



Habit of an Ophiopogon. Leaves 6-10 in., erect and recurved, grassy, acuminate, 

 persistent, costa stout, green above, glaucous beneath. Scape shorter than the 

 leaves, acutely angled. Saceme23 in. ; pedicels 5 - in., solitary, jointed under the 

 perianth ; bracts green, subulate. Flowers % in. diam., drooping, white suffused 

 with pink. Berries $ in. diam. Maxirnovicz describes the foliage as annual. 



8. TUPISTRA, Ker. 



Hootstock tuberous or creeping. Leaves radical, petioled, oblanceolate, 

 costate, strongly nerved. Scape short or long ; flowers spicate, lurid. 

 Perianth campanulate, tube broad; lobes 6 or 8, short. Stamens 6 or S, 

 inserted in the middle of the tube, included ; filament very short, in- 

 flexed ; anthers dorsifixed, incurved. Ovary small, sessile, subglobose, 

 3-4 celled ; style very short, stigma peltate or capitate, entire or 3-6-lobed ; 

 cells 2-ovuled. Berry globose, usually 1-seeded. Seeds large, testa thin 

 adnate ; albumen fleshy. Species 7 or 8, tropical Himalayan and Burmese. 



* Bracts shorter than the flowers. 



1. T. nutans, Wall in Bot. Reg. t. 1223 ; Cat. 5793 ; spike pen- 

 dulous densely many-fld., flowers dull brown and purple, perianth lobes 

 broadly ovate, mouth closed by the large hemispheric stigma. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3054 ; Kunth Enum. v. 318. T. squalida, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 

 580 (in part). 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-5000 ft., J. D. H. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 2-4000 ft., 

 Wallich, &c. 



Rootstock as thick as the little finger. Leaves 2-3 ft. by 2-2 in., narrowly 

 oblanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, shining ; petiole as long as the blade or shorter. 

 Peduncle 1^-4 in. stout, decurved ; spike 3-6 in. ; bracts deltoid, scarious. 

 Flotvers ^-f in. diam., tube hemispheric longer than the lobes. Berry f-1 in. diatn. 



