520 Prof. Don's Monograph of the Genus Disporum. 



infern^ angustata, \ uncise longa, basi gibbosa, vix saccata. Antheroe 

 obtusse, filamentis inferne dilatatis ter breviores. Ovarium turbinatum. 

 Stylus stigmatibus recurvatis dupl6 longior. Bacca trigona, nigra, pisi 

 raajoris raagnitudine, 3- v. rariiis monosperma. 



The late Di-. Buchanan Hamilton originally discovered this species in 1802 

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

 which specific appellation I adopted in my Prodromus Fierce Nepalensis, not 

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

 J. E. Smith in the 30th volume of " Rees's Cyclopaedia," under the name of 

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

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

 umbels, and bluntish sepals. 



7. D. parviflorum, umbellis subsessilibus 2 — 7-floris, sepalis lanceolatis acu- 

 minatis basi gibbosis, antheris filamentis duplo brevioribus, stigmatibus 

 stylo ter brevioribus, foliis lanceolatis subpetiolatis. 

 Disporum parviflorum. Don I. c. p. 50. Schult.Jil. Syst. vii. p. 372. 

 Uvularia parviflora. Wall, in I. c. 13. p. 37S. Cat. n.509i. 

 Hab. in Nepalia. fVallich. 1/ . (v. s. sp. in Herb. Wall.). 



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

 subtus ad nervos oramque scabriuscula, ima basi constricta subpetiolata, 

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

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

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

 Filamenta valdfe dilatata, antheris obtusis dupl5 longiora. Ovarium sub- 

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

 3- V. 2-, nunc rariiis abort u 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. 



