486 



Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves, 



Petals none. 



each stamen, stamens much longer than the teeth of the 

 cup, cup |-1 in. long, style thread-like, longer than the 

 stamens, stigma small ; capsule large, 3-angled, seeds 

 angled. 



Polygonatum 

 geminiflorum, 



LiLIACEiE. 



F. B. I. vi. 320. 

 Himalaya, 

 7-11,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



medium size, perennial, rootstock horizontal, stem 

 zigzag, rounded ; leaves 2-4 in., oblong or linear-oblong, 

 green with a bluish waxy gloss ; flowers ^ in., white and 

 green, 2 on each main stalk, |-^ in., calyx tube white, 

 cylindric, lobes 6, green, much shorter than the tube, 

 anthers (i, inserted above the middle of the tube, nearly 

 sessile, style linear, straight, stigma small, berry round, 

 blue-black, 3-celled, seeds nearlv round, 2 in each cell. 



Polygonatum 

 verticillatum, 

 Whorled Solomon's 

 Seal, 



Mitha dudia, 

 shdkakal. 



LlLACE^. 



F. B. I.vi. 821. 



Himalaya, 

 6-11,000 ft. 

 Simla, Mashobra, 

 Narkanda (Collett). 

 Fagu, Kashmir. 



like the last species, but larger, leaves arranged round 

 fche stem in fours or eights, sometimes curled up at the tip, 

 stem grooved, flowers 2-3 on one stalk. The root is eaten 

 as a food in the Kurram Valley and exported to Kabul and 

 Peshawar. 



Polygonatum 

 cirrifolium, 



see Climbing Plants, Opposite, Exstipulate. 



Hemerocallis fulva, 



LlLIACZ^. 



F. 3. I. vi. 326. 

 The Himalaya. 



large, perennial, rootstock short wdth fleshy root 

 fibres ; leaves 12-24 by 1-1| in., radical, linear, ribbed, 

 waxy bluish-green beneath ; flowers 1-2 in. diam., orange 

 yellow in a few branching raceme on a long naked main 

 flower stalk, calyx funnel-shaped, segments 6 in 2 tubes, 

 outer shorter than the inner, outer segments orange yellow, 

 oblong, short-pointed, inner very much broader, recurved, 

 stamens 6 inserted at the mouth of the tube, protruding, 

 style thread-like, bent down ; capsule 8-colled, leathery, 

 seeds black, shining, angled. This plant is calt.'vated 

 throughout India, 



