360 CLVI. LILIACB^J. (J. D. Hooker.) [Dispomm. 



Stem 1-2 ft. Leaves 2-3 in., oblong-lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers ^-f in. 

 long, usually narrow, white greenish or purplish ; spurs very variable, in short flowered 

 specimens in. long, equalling the blade of the sepal in length. Sty le slender, rarely 

 exserted. 



Don gives the following characters to the species united above : calcaratum, 

 sepals lanceolate acuminate long-spurred, filaments thrice as long as the anthers. 

 WallicUi, sepals lanceolate acuminate, spur short straight, filaments five times as 

 long as the anthers. Hamiltonianum, sepals lanceolate acute, spur short re- 

 curved, anthers as long as the filaments. An original drawing of the latter 

 (Hamilton's " Betua," spelled Betiya) has acuminate narrow purple sepals with very 

 short spurs ; it is not distinguishable from a drawing by Horsfield of the Javanese 

 multiflorum (Horsfieldii). The Burmese D. latipetalum has broader sepals and in 

 this respect approaches the Chinese D. uniflorum, berry intermediate. 



2. D. pullum, Salisb. in Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 330; perianth- segments 

 spathulate or lanceolate acute or acuminate base saccate or subsaccate. 

 Don Prodr, 50 ; in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 521 ; Kunth Enum. iv. 208 ; 

 Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 589. D. Pitsutum, Don II. cc. 50 and 519 ; 

 Kunth 1. c. 207. D. fulvum (error for pullum), Don Prodr. 50. D. multi- 

 florum, Don in Proc. Linn. Soc. v. 45 ; in Trans. Linn. Soc. I. c. 518 ; 

 Kunth 1. c. 207 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 552. D. parviflorum, Don II. cc: 

 50 and 520 ; Kunth 1. c. 208. D. Horsfieldii. Don in Proc. Linn. Soc. Nov. 

 1839. Uvularia chinensis, Crawl, in Bot. Mag. t. 916. U. parviflora and 

 umbellata, Wall, in Asiat. Research, xiii. 379 ; Plant. As. Rar. iii. 43, 

 t. 269 ; Gat. 5090. U. multiflora, Reinw. in Blume Cat. Hort. Buitenz. 62. 

 U. parviflora, Wall, in As. Res. xiii. 378 ; Cat. 5091 in part. U. Hamil- 

 toniana, Wall. Cat. 5088 C in part, D. Streptopus chinensis and pedun- 

 cularis, Smith in Rees Cyclop, under Uvularia. Drapiezia multiflora, 

 Blume Enum. i. 8. 



TEM REBATE HIMALAYA ; from Garwhal eastwards, alt. 4-8000 ft. KHASIA and 

 MUNNIPORE HILLS. BEHAE, on Parusnath. DISTEIB. Sumatra, Java, China. 



Stem 2-4 ft., sometimes robust, or branched. Leaves 2-6 in., ovate-oblong or 

 lanceolate, acute or acuminate. Flowers white or dull purple, in sessile or peduncled 

 many- or few-fid, umbels ; pedicels -1 in. 



The type of this species is the Chinese uvularia chinensis of the Botanical Magazine, 

 a purple flowered plant hardly distinguishable from shortly spurred specimens of 

 calcaratum. The flowers are narrow, nearly an inch long, with lanceolate acute 

 sepals and filanfents twice as long as the anthers. D. multiflorum has numerous 

 very small white flowers, with subspathulate mucronate sepals and filaments twice as 

 long x as the anthers. D. Pitsutum has short cuneately lanceolate subacute white 

 sepals, spreading from near the saccate base, and filaments longer or shorter than the 

 anthers, it passes into Leschenaultianum. I have found it single-flowered in Sikkim 

 where it is identified with Baker's Chinese D. uniflorum. D. parviflorum has white 

 flowers only - in. long, with narrow lanceolate acuminate sepals, and filaments 

 about twice as long as the anthers. 



3. D. Xieschenaultianum, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 518; 

 perianth -segments broadly oblong acute or acuminate tase saccate. Kunth 

 Enum.iv. 207 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 590 ; Thwaites Enum. 338 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 2048 ; Sot. Mag. t. 6935. D. ceylanicum and mysorense. 

 Wight Ic. t. 2049. Uvularia Leschenaultiana, Wall. Gat. 5089. 



The WESTERN GHATS ; from Canara southwards. CEYLON, alt. 4-7000 ft. 



Stem 1-2 ft., branched above. Leaves mostly shortly petioled, 2-4 in., and 

 broadly ovate or oblong-ovate, acuminate, but very variable in breadth. Flowers 

 quite white, in 3-5-fld. umbels. Perianth in. long ; segments obtuse, obscurely 



