326 CLVI. LILIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Tupistra. 



9. ASPIDISTRA, Ker. 



Characters of Tupistra, but scape very short, 1-fld. ; flowers tetramerous, 

 embraced by concave sheathing bracteoles inserted at the base of the 

 perianth. Species 3 or 4, Himalayan, Japanese and Chinese. 



A. longrifolia, Hook. f. ; leaves 2-3 ft. by 1-2 in. narrowly linear- 

 oblanceolate, bracts 2-3 hemispheric strongly nerved. A. lurida, Baker 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 579, not of Ker. 



UPPER ASSAM; in the Mishmi hills, Griffith. 



Rootstock stout, creeping. Leaves tufted, rather thin, contracted into a rigid 

 deeply grooved petiole that is produced into a trigonous keel extending half way up 

 the leaf more or less, nerves close set slender. Peduncle %$ in., stout, with a boat- 

 shaped bract at the top. Flower (bud ?) very shortly pedicelled ; bracts scarious, 

 rounded at the, apex ; perianth in. diain., fleshy, subglobose contracted at the mouth ; 

 lobes very small. Anthers sessile, recurved. Stigma very large. A very different 

 plant from tlie^A. lurida, Ker of China. 



10. GONIOSCYPHA, Baker. 



Leaves radical, petioled, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, costate and 

 strongly nerved. Scape radical, bracts elongate-subulate much exceeding 

 the flowers ; spike erect, cylindric, crowned with a tuft of flowerless per- 

 sistent bracts. Perianth-tube cylindric; lobes 6, short, broadly ovate, 

 spreading. Stamens 6, inserted in the throat of the perianth, filaments 

 very short; anthers erect, linear-oblong. Ovary subglobose, 3-celled; 

 style columnar; stigma small, 3-lobed ; cells 2-ovuled. 



G. eucomoides, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 581, t. 19 ; N.E. 

 Br. in Gard. Chron. 1886, ii. 744. 



BHOTAN HIMALAYA ; in the Duphla hills, alt. 4500 ft., Sooth, Lister. 



Rootstock long, fleshy. Leaves 1-2 ft. by 6-8 in., narrowed into a petiole 4 in. 

 long, subpinnately 10-12-nerved. Scape 8-9 in., stout, strict, terete, with basal 

 scarious sheaths ; spikes 3 in., dense-fld., cylindric ; bracts setaceous, persistent ; 

 flowers at length deflexed, nearly in. long, dark green. Berry ovoid, i-f in. long, 

 fleshy, 1 -seeded. 



10* HEMEEOCALLIS, Linn. 



Rootstock very short, with fleshy root-fibres. Leaves elongate, narrowly 

 linear, costate and many-nerved. Scape elongate, terete, naked, bearing a 

 few-fld. panicle ; bracts deciduous. Flowers large, suberect, orange-yellow. 

 Perianth funnel-shaped, 6-partite, segments connate at the base in a tube, 

 then recurved, outer smaller. Stamens 6, inserted at the mouth of the 

 tube, exserted, filaments filiform, declinate, inserted in a dorsal pit of the 

 linear-oblong versatile anther. Ovary 3-celled ; style filiform, declinate, 

 stigma capitate ; cells many-ovuled. Capsule triquetrous, coriaceous, 

 loculicidal. Seeds angled ; testa thin, black, shining ; embryo cylindric. 

 Species 5, Europe, temp. Asia and Japan. 



K. fulva, Linn. Sp. PI. Ed. ii. 462 ; inner perianth-segments much 

 larger and broader than the outer, margins undulate with reticulate nerves. 

 Kunth JEnum. iv. 588 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 359 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, v. 312 ; Bot. Mag. t. 64 ; Eedoute Lit. t. 16 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. 

 Germ. t. 1113 ; Wall. Cat. 8975. H. disticha, Don in Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard. 

 t. 28. 



