520 Pi'of. Don's Mcmogvaph of tlie Genus Disporiiin. 



infernè angustata, ^ unciae longa, basi g'ibbosa, vix succata. Aiitlierce 

 obtusee, filaiiientis infeniè dilatatis ter breviores. Ovarium tiu'binatu'di. 

 Stylus stigmatibiis recurvatis cliiplo longior. Bacca trigona, nigra, pisi 

 majoHs inagnitudine, 3- v. rariiis nioiiosperma. 



The late Df. Buchanan Hamilton originally discovered this species in 18U2 

 at Chitlong in the valley of Nepal, and gave it the name of Uvularia Pifsufu, 

 which specific appellation I adopted in my Prodromus Flortv N^epalensls, not 

 being then aware that the plant had been long previously published by Sir 

 J. E. Smith in the 3Uth volume of " Rees's Cyclopcedia," under the name of 

 Streptopus peduncularis, at the end of the article " Uinduria.'" It is a hand- 

 some species, and is well distinguished by its many-flowered pedunculated 

 umbels, and bluntish sepals. 



7. D. parvijiorum, umbellis subsessilibus 2 — 7-floris, sepalis laneeolatis acu- 

 niinatis basi gibbosis, antheris filamentis duplo brevioribus, stigmatibus 

 stylo ter brevioribus, foliis laneeolatis subpetiolatis. 

 Disporum parviflorum. J)o» I. c. p. 50. Schult.Jil. Sijst. vii. p. 372. 

 Uvularia parviflora. U^all. in I. c. 13. p. 378. CuL u. 5091. 

 Hub. in NeiKxliâ. Jf'aUich. H . (v. s. sp. in Herb. Wall.). 



Caules erecti, ramosissimi, 1 — 4-pedales. Folia lanceolata, longé acuminata, 

 subtiis ad nervos oramque scabriuscula, imâ basi constrictâ subpetiolata, 

 2 — 3-pollicaria, vix ultra semunciam lata. Umhella subsessilis, 2 — 7-flora. 

 Flores omnibus minores, fulvi ? PedicelU scabriusculi. Sepala lanceo- 

 lata, apice recurvato-mucronata, margine scabriuscula, unguicularia. 

 Filamenta valdè dilatata, antheris obtusis duplo longiora. Ovarium sub- 

 rotundo-trigonum. Bacca trigona, subtriloba, nigra, pisi magnitudine, 

 3- v. 2-, nunc rariùs abortu monosperma. 



This is a well-marked species, having considerably smaller flowers, and 

 much narrower leaves than in the rest of the genus. The umbels are nearly 

 sessile, the sepals merely gibbous at the base, and the styles thrice as long as 

 the stigmas. In the Wallichian Herbarium are several specimens with mature 

 fruit, in which frequently a single seed only is perfected, the two other cells 

 being barren. 



