358 CLVI. LILIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Tofieldia. 



persistent; segments 6, spreading. Stamens 6, on the base of the seg- 

 ments, filaments filiform ; anthers short, dorsifixed, versatile, introrse. 

 Carpels 3, many-ovuled ; styles short, persistent, stigmas obtuse. Follicles 

 3, membranous, acute. Seeds many, minute, cymbiform or slender, testa 

 thin, pale. Species about 14, Arctic and Alpine. 



T. himalaicaj Baker in Jburn. Linn. Soc. xvii. 489 ; leaves narrowly 

 linear 3-5-nerved margins scabrid, fruiting pedicels ascending bracteate 

 at the base calyculate at the apex. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; alt. 10-12,000 ft., J. D. H., Clarke. 



Stem 8-18 in., glabrous. Leaves 2-4 by -^"B m - Fruiting raceme 4-8 in. ; 

 lower pedicels ~f in. Perianth | in. long, greenish white ; segments narrowly 

 oblanceolate, 1 -nerved. Capsule -5 in., obovoid ; styles very slender, the length 

 of the cells. Seeds slender, terets, acute at both ends. 



30. GXiORXOSA, Linn. 



Rootstock tuberous, naked. Stem, climbing, leafy. Leaves scattered, 

 opposite or 3-nately whorled, lanceolate, costate, tip elongate spiral. 

 Flowers large, axillary, solitary ; pedicels reflexed. Perianth persistent ; 

 segments 6, subequal, narrow, spreading or reflexed, often waved or crisped. 

 Stamens 6, hypogynous, filaments filiform ; anthers linear, dorsifixed, ver- 

 satile, extrorse. Ovary 3-celled ; style filiform, deflexed, 3-fid, arms 

 subulate, introrsely stigmatose ; cells many-ovuled. Capsule large, coria- 

 ceous, septicidal. Seeds subglobose, testa spongy ; embryo cylindric. 

 Species 3, tropical Asiatic and African. 



Or. superba, Linn. Sp. PI. 305 ; perianth-segments crisply waved. 

 Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 457 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 143 ; Gran. Cat. 

 Bomb. PI. 221 ; Wight Ic. t. 2047 ; Bot. Reg. t. 77 ; Andr. Bot. Rep. 1. 139 ; 

 Reiclib. Ic. JExot. t. 51. G. simplex, Don Prodr. 51. G. Doniana, Schultesf. 

 fyst. vii. 366. Methonica superba, Lamb. Encycl. iv. 133 ; Kunth JEnum. 

 iv. 276 ; Redoute Lil. t. 26 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 2LO. M. Doniana, 

 Kunth 1. c. Eugona superba, Salisb. Prodr. 238. Rheede Hort. Mat. vii. 

 t. 57. 



Throughout TROPICAL INDIA ; from the N. W. HIMALAYA to ASSAM, BURMA, 

 MALACCA and CEYLON, ascending to 5000 ft. DISTRIB. Trop. Africa, Malacca, 

 Cochiu China. 



Rootstock a chain of fleshy arched tubers, budding from the convexity above. 

 Stem 10-20 ft., terete, herbaceous. Leaves 6-8 in., sessile or shortly petioled, 

 variable in breadth, many nerved. Floivers solitary or subcorymbose towards the 

 ends of the branches from the nearness of the leaves ; pedicels 4-6 in., tip deflexed. 

 Perianth 3-4 in. diam., segments linear-lanceolate, bright red above the lower third, 

 golden yellow below it as are the margins and midrib. Filaments stout, golden 

 yellow ; connective green. Capsule 2 in. long. 



31. TRICYSTXS, Wall. 



Rootstoclc creeping. Stem dichotomously branched above, leafy. 

 Leaves alternate, subsessile or amplexicaul, strongly nerved. Flowers 

 subcory mbose or racemose, white spotted with purple. Perianth campanu- 

 late, deciduous ; segments 6, lanceolate, 3 outer saccate or 2-gibbous at 

 the base, inner gibbous or flat. Stamens 6, subhypogynous, filaments 

 cohering or conniving in a tube below, spreading above ; anthers dorsi- 



