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Mclanthacccc Uvular ia. 



2. UVULARIA. 



Dwarf fibrous-rooted herbs with sessile or clasping ovate- 

 lanceolate cauline leaves and solitary or geminate pedunculate 

 pendulous yellow flowers. Perianth-segments free to the base, 

 linear-lanceolate or spathulate, slightly spreading. Fruit cap- 

 sular, few-seeded. A small genus from North America and the 

 mountains of Northern India. The name is from uvula, said to 

 be applied on account of their medicinal use in diseases of that 

 organ. It has also been explained as referring to the pendent 

 flowers. 



1. U. grandiflora. This species grows about a foot high, 

 and the oblong-ovate slightly hairy leaves are perfoliate. 

 Flowers pale yellow, 1^ to 2 inches long, appearing in May or 

 June. North America. 



U. puberula and U. sessilifolia have sessile not-perfoliate 

 leaves and pale yellow or cream-coloured flowers ; and U. per- 

 foliata is near grandiflbra, but with smaller flowers. 



3. TRICtRTIS. 



A small genus of Chinese and Japanese origin. Erect hairy 



herbs. Leaves alternate, 

 ovate or cordate, and 

 stem-clasping. Flowers 

 in terminal panicles. 

 Perianth six-parted, the 

 segments forming a ball, 

 clawed, the three outer 

 bulging at the base. 

 From rpids, three, and 

 KVpTos, swollen or 

 hump- backed, referring 

 to the outer perianth- 

 lobes. 



1. T. hirta. A hardy 

 plant with broad sessile 

 ovate-acuminate shining 

 nervose leaves. Flowers 

 large, in terminal um- 

 bels, white thicklv 



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