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to 2 to a berry, obovoid, dark red. Occasional on rocky about 6 mm. in diameter. May-June. Honshu, Shikoku, 



slopes along die seacoast; Kyushu (Ohsumi, Satsuma) . Kyushu. Korea, China, and Formosa. 



Ryukyus and Formosa. 8. Smilax bracteata Presl. S. stenopetala A. Gray 



7. Smilax sieboldii Miq. S. oldhamii Miq. Yama- Satsuma-sankirai. Plants scandent; branches striate, some- 



KASHu, Saikachi-ibara. Scandent subshrub with rather times loosely prickly; leaves coriaceous, rather lustrous, 3- to 

 prickly angled branches; leaves chartaceous, lustrous above, 7-nerved, oblong, ovate to orbicular, 5-8 cm. long, 3-7 cm. 

 duller beneath, broadly ovate to cordate or deltoid-ovate, 5-12 wide, acute to abrupdy cuspidate, cuneate to rounded at base, 

 cm. long, 3-9 cm. wide, short-acuminate, cordate or sometimes the margin slightly thickened and firm, the petioles 8-12 mm. 

 rounded at base, 5(-7)-nerved, the margin slighdy uneven, the long, with tendrils near the middle; inflorescence corymbose, 

 petioles 5-15 mm. long, with tendrils; umbels simple, solitary, often branched, many-flowered, short-pedunculate; staminate 

 reladvely many-flowered, die peduncles 1-2 cm. long; stami- tepals much-recurved, about 5 mm. long, the outer ones linear- 

 nate tepals 4-5 mm. long, ascending, subrecurved on upper oblong, the inner ones linear-lanceolate; stamens nearly as long 

 half, the outer ones broadly lanceolate, the inner ones nar- as the tepals, the anthers broadly linear, 1.2-1.5 mm. long, 

 rower; stamens slightly shorter than the tepals, the anthers coiled. Dec.-Feb. Kyushu (s. distr.). Ryukyus to Phil- 

 linear-oblong, about 1 mm. long; fruit globose, blue-black, ippines. 



41. HETEROSMILAX Kunth Karasukiba-sankirai Zoku 



Scandent dioecious shrubs or subshrubs with elongate branching stems; leaves ovate, somedmes cordate, 3- to 5-nerved, the 

 petioles with a tendril on each side; inflorescence umbellate, axillary, pedunculate; flowers relatively small, pedicelled, the tepals 

 connate, forming an urceolate tube; stamens 3, inserted at the base of the perianth or forming a connate tube; staminodes 1-3, 



filiform in the pistillate flowers; ovary ovoid, 3-locular, with 2 ovules in each locule; fruit a globose berry; seeds 1-3. Few 



species in the warmer regions of India, Malaysia, and e. Asia. 



1. Heterosmilax japonica Kunth. Karasukiba-san- both sides, the petioles 1-2.5 cm. long, with a solitary long 



KiRAi. Glabrous scandent subshrub with elongate, nearly tendril on each side; umbels many-flowered, the pistillate 



terete branches; leaves firmly chartaceous, narrowly deltoid- perianth 3-4 mm. long, with small obtuse teeth at apex. 



ovate to broadly ovate, 5-10 cm. long, 3-8 cm. wide, 5(-7)- Aug.-Oct. Kyushu (Yakushima). Ryukyus, Formosa, and 



nerved, abruptly acuminate mucronate, rounded to cordate at China, 

 base, slightly lustrous, green, with raised netted-veinlets on 



Fam. 53. AMARYLLmACEAE Higanbana Ka Amaryllis Family 



Mosdy herbs with tunicate bulbs or rarely with short rhizomes; leaves usually radical, linear; flowers acdnomorphic or 

 slightly zygomorphic; tepals 6, in 2 series, usually equal; stamens 6, the anthers usually introrse; ovary inferior, 3-locular; 

 ovules anatropous, in 2 series, the embryo small, erect, enclosed in a fleshy endosperm; fruit a locuiicidal capsule, rarely a berry, 



seeds few. About 86 genera and about 1000 species, chiefly in tropical and warmer regions, relatively few in the temperate 



regions. 



lA. Plants with tunicate bulbs; scapes naked; inflorescence subtended by a spathelike bract at base. 



2A. Corona absent; bulbs subcylindric and elongate (in ours); leaves rather large, 4-8 cm. wide (in ours) I. Criniim 



2B. Corona present; bulbs ovoid and much shorter (in ours). 



3A. Filaments between the very minute corona-lobes 2. Lycoris 



3B. Filaments within the large cup-shaped or tubular corona 3. Narcissus 



IB. Plants rhizomatous; stems usually leafy; inflorescence usually without a spathe. 



4 A. Ovary with a filiform beak at apex; fruit fleshy 4. CiircuUgo 



4B. Ovary beakless; fruit a capsule 5. Hypoxis 



1. CRINUM L. Hama-omoto Zoku 



Bulbs tunicate; radical leaves elongate, relatively broad; flowers large, in terminal umbels on a simple naked scape, sessile 

 or short-pedicelled, the involucral bracts 2, membranous, the bracts many, linear; tepals connate below, forming a long narrow 

 tube, the segments narrowly oblong to linear; stamens inserted on the throat of the tube, the filaments free, filiform, the anthers 

 versatile; ovary 3-locular, the style simple, filiform, the stigma small; ovules few to many; capsules irregularly globose and de- 

 hiscent; seeds few, large. About 130 species, pantropical, few in temperate regions. 



1. Crinum asiaticum L. var. japonicum Bak. C. asi- flowers white, the perianth-tube slender, the segments broadly 



aticum var. decUnatum sensu auct. Japon., non Miq.; C. mari- linear, acute, 6-7 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, shorter than the 



timum Sieb. Hama-omoto. Bulbs subcylindric, 30-50 cm. tube; anthers linear, 17-22 mm. long; capsules subglobose; 



long, 3-5 cm. in diameter; leaves rather fleshy, 30-70 cm. long, seeds globose or rounded with obtuse angles, 2-2.5 cm. long 



4-8 cm. wide, hyaline on the margin, glabrous, slightly lust- and as wide, the testa gray-white and spongy. .'Vug.-Sept. 



rous, gradually narrowed above; scapes erect, 50-80 cm. long, Sandy sea beaches; Honshu (s. Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shi- 

 naked, decumbent in fruit; umbels many-flowered, the subtend- koku, Kyushu. The typical phase is widely distributed in 

 ing bracts 2, linear-oblong, abrupdy acuminate, 6-8 cm. long; tropical Asia. 



