Tricyrtis.] CLVI. LILIAOE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 359 



fixed, extrorse. Ovary 3-celled; style 3-fid, arms 2-fid; cells many- 

 ovuled. Capsule coriaceous, linear, triquetrous, septicidal. Seeds 1-seriate, 

 minute, flat ; testa lax, brown, reticulate. Species 5, Himalayan, Chinese 

 and Japanese. 



T. pilosa, Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. 61, t. 46 ; glandular-pubescent, leaves 

 cordately amplexicaul, flowers loosely corymbose white spotted with purple. 

 Kunth Enum. iv. 279 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 464; Sot. Mag. 

 t. 4955; Flore des Serves, t. 1219. T. elegans, Wall. I. c. 62; Gat. 600. 

 Compsoa maculata, Don Prodr. 51. Compsanthus maculatus, Spreng. 

 Syst. Veg. Cur. Post. 137. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. C-8000 ft.. J. D. H. t &c. 

 Bhotan, Griff. The KHASIA HILLS, alt. 5-6000 ft. 



Stem 2-4 ft., slender. Leaves 4-6 by 1^-3 in., acuminate, subpinnately 6-9- 

 nerved. Flowers 1 in diam., pedicels stout strict; bracts small, lower ovate- 

 cordate, upper linear or 0. Perianth segments lanceolate, recurved from just above 

 the bigibbous nectariferous base, subacute, sparsely glandular without, yellowish 

 white with purple spots. Filaments stout, terete, erect, then stellately spreading ; 

 anthers lilac. Style short, clavate, arms recurved, stout, obtuse. Capsule 

 1-1 i in. 



32. DISPORUM, Salisb. 



Eootstock creeping. Stem erect, angular, leafy. Leaves sessile or sub- 

 sessile, strongly-nerved. Flowers in terminal or axillary few-fld. umbels ; 

 pedicels decurved. Perianth campanulate, deciduous ; segments 6, erect, 

 base saccate or spurred. Stamens 6, hypogynous; anthers dorsifixed, 

 extrorse. Ovary 3-celled ; style long or short, stigmas 3 short ; cells 2-6- 

 ovuled. Berry 'pisiform, fleshy, black. Seeds subglobose, testa appressed, 

 brown. Species about 12, Asiatic and N". American. 



The study of a very large series of specimens and drawings of the Indian Dispora 

 has satisfied me that no specific limits can be assigned to their forms, greatly 

 though they differ, and Mr. Clarke has arrived at the same conclusion. The leaves 

 afford no characters ; the umbels are ses*ile or peduncled in the same form and even 

 specimen, and vary in the number of flowers they bear ; the flowers are white, 

 greenish, or dark purple, and the perianth tubular with spreading tip^ of the narrow 

 segments in the large flowered forms ; but in others broadly campanulate with the 

 broader segments spreading from shortly above the base. The filaments are shorter 

 than the nnthers in some forms, three to four times as long in others. The length of 

 the style is usually proportionate to that of the perianth, but it is sometimes far 

 exserted (indicating dimorphic conditions). The fruit is the same in all forms, 

 a purple-black, pea-shaped berry. It remains for the resident botanists in the 

 Himalaya to study all the forms, each in his own province, with the view of classi- 

 fying them, which latter I have been unable to do satisfactorily ; after which a 

 review of all the results thus obtained would lead to a better knowledge of the 

 genus. 



1. D. calcaratum, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 516; perianth- 

 eegnients lanceolate acute base spurred. Kunth Enum. iv. 207 ; Baker in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 588. D. Wallichii and Hamiltonianum, Don 4" 

 Kunth II. cc. D. latipetalum, Coll. & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 

 139. Uvularia calcarata, Wall. Cat. 5087. U. Hamiltoniana, Wall. Cat. 

 5088 in part U. Betua, Ham. mss. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from NYptl, Wallitth, eastwards, alt. 5-3000 ft. 

 KEASIA Mrs., MUNKIPOEE and BURMA, alt. 3-3000 It. 



