526 P>'('f- Don's Monograph o/Strcptopus, ^r. 



plexl/olius, rosens, and another species, first described by me under the name 

 of simple.v in the Prodromns Florœ Nepalens'is. These plants have all a 

 peculiar liabit, cylindrical leafy stems^ broad amplexicaul leaves, glaucous 

 beneath, and axillary, solitary, mostly single-flowered peduncles, which in 

 ampler if olJus are curiously twisted at their middle. The genus undoubtedly 

 belongs to the Smiliiceœ, and is nearly allied to Convalluria and Sniilacina, 

 but is essentially distinguished from both by its distinct sepals, each furnished 

 Avith a nectariferous furrow, separate stigmas, and polyspermous berry. With 

 Th'ularia it accords in habit, and in its solitary, axillary, campanulate flowers ; 

 bnt its innate anthers, furnished with short filan)ents, baccate pericarpiiim, 

 and noncarnnculate seeds, remove it widely from that genus. 



I shall now proceed to the description of the genera, and of the species 

 belonging to them. 



8T11EPT0PUS. Ric/i. 



UVULARI^ SP. L. 



Perianthhim 6-phyllum, petaloideum, campanulatnm, œquale, decidiium : 

 follolis œstivatione imbricatis, basi fovea oblonga nectarifera instriictis. 

 Stamina 6, basi sepalorum adnata, simulque ûac'uXun: Jilamrtita brevis- 

 sima, compressa, dilatata : antherœ erecta^, innatee, basi subsagittatœ rima 

 duplici longitudinalitèr déhiscentes. Ovarium 3-loculare: loviiUs niulti- 

 ovulatis : or«//.v erectis. Stigmata '3, reciu'vata. Pc/icarpiam baccatm^^, 

 menibranaceum, 3-loculare: localis polyspermis. Semina duplici série 

 ordinata, oblonga, curvula, sulcata, testa rugosfi subcoriacea. 



Herboe (heniispli. bor.) perennes, rliizomafc diviso,Jihroso, muldcipitc. Caules 

 cyUndracei. Folia ampkwicaalia, dilatata, malfinerria, saJitàs glaaca. 

 Flores axillares, .w/i/arii, pcdanculati, cernai, //descentes, alhi v. rosei. 

 Baccae glohosœ, ruhrœ. 



1. S. amplexifolias, glaber ; pedunculis medio convolutis appendiculatis, se- 

 palis ol)tus^ acuminatis, antheris sagittatis acuminatis, stigmate trilobo, 

 baccœ loculis 6-spermis. 

 Streptopus amplexifolias. Lam. et DeCand. Ft. Frai/c. iii. p. l/J. n. 1856. 

 Red. Lil. V. t. 259. Sm. in Rees" C'ljclup. in loco. DaLij Bot. (iall. i. p. -159. 

 Schalt.fl. Si/st. vii. p. 310. 



