Disporum.] CLVI. LILIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 361 



ciliate. Filaments about as long as the anthers or longer. Wight figures the 

 perianth segments of his three species as acute or acuminate. His ceylanicum is 

 intermediate between his other two, but has the smaller flowers of mysorense. His 

 figure of Leschenaultianum resembles a broad-leaved pullum. The Bot. Mag. plate of 

 LescTienaultianum has the broad sepals of Wight's mysorense, but the large flowers 

 of the type. Royle's figure of the Kumaon plant referred to Leschenaultianum is 

 so bad that I refrain from citing it. 



33. CIiINTONIA, Eafin. 



Rootstock creeping. Leaves subradical, narrow, costate. Scape naked 

 or 1-leaved. Flowers in terminal umbels or racemes, rarely solitary ; bracts 

 linear or 0. Perianth funnel-shaped, deciduous ; segments 6, subequal. 

 Stamens 6, inserted on the base of the segments, filaments filiform ; anthers 

 dorsifixed, subextrorse. Ovary 3-celled ; style columnar, stigma tliickened ; 

 cells 2- or more-ovuled. Berry fleshy, at length loculicidal. Seeds 2 or 

 more, ovoid or obtusely angled ; testa appressed, brown or pale ; albumen 

 hard ; embryo minute. Species 8, Temperate Asiatic and S", American. 



C. alpina, Kunth Enum. v. 159 ; leaves obovate to oblanceolate cus- 

 pidate or acuminate, scape leafless and pedicels pubescent, perianth- 

 segments oblanceolate 5-7-nerved. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 585. 

 Smilacina alpina, Royle III. 380. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 8-11,000 ft. ; from Garwhal to Sikkim, alt. 

 12,000 ft., and Bhotan. 



Leaves few, 4-9 by 2-4 in., suberect, glabrous ; nerves many, slender. Scape 

 6-24 in., slender ; flowers loosely racemose or the upper umbellate; pedicels ^-1 in., 

 straight, fruiting elongate curved ; bracts caducous. Perianth -J in. long, white. 

 Stamens included, anthers small. Ovary ovoid ; style short, 3-toothed. Berry 

 i- in. diam., many-seeded; fruiting pedicels |-lf in., distant, upcurved. The 

 Chinese C. udensis, F. & M., hardly differs. 



34. TRILLIUM, Linn. 



Rootstock creeping, annulate. Stem simple, erect, base sheathed. Leaves 

 3, whorled at or above the middle of the stem, 3-5-nerved and reticulate. 

 Flower solitary, sessile or pedicelled. Perianth persistent ; segments 6. 

 free, spreading. Stamens 6, inserted on the base of the segments, filaments 

 short ; anthers basifixed, cells bordering the connective, slits lateral. Ovary 

 ovoid or subglobose, 3-celled ; style 3-fid or 3-partite, arms recurved 

 stigmatose within ; cells many-ovuled. Berry fleshy. Seeds ovoid, with a 

 lateral pulpy strophiole, albumen fleshy ;. embryo minute. Species 12, a 

 few Himalayan, Chinese and Japanese, the rest N. American. 



1. T- G-ovanianum, Wall. Cat. 812; leaves shortly petioled ovate 

 or ovate-cordate acute, sepals subequal narrowly linear. Royle III. 384, t. 

 93. Trillidium Govanianum, Kunth Enum. v. 120. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir, alt. 8-10,000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 

 9-11,000 ft. 



2. T. Tschonoskii, Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Peters?), xxix. (1884) 218 ; 

 leaves sessile broadly subrhomboidally ovate or orbicular cuspidately 

 acuminate, sepals green oblong-lanceolate, petals similar dull purple. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 10-11,000 ft., J. J). H., Clarke. BHOTAN and the 

 Mishmi Hills, Griffith. DISTKIB. Japan. 



