Prof. Don's Monograph of the Genus Disporum. 521 



8. D. pullum, umbellis sessilibus sub-4-flons, sepalis lanceolatis acutis basi 

 brevit^r calcaratis, antheris filamentis vix brevioribus, stigrnatibus styli 

 longitudine, foliis lanceolatis subpetiolatis. 

 Disporum pullum. Salish. in Hort. Trans. \. jo. 331. Schult.fil. Syst. vii. 



p.^7\. 

 Uvularia chinensis, Ker in Bot. Mag. #.916. 

 Streptopus chinensis. Sm. in Rees' Cyclop, sub Uvularid. 

 Hab. in China. 2/ . (v. v. c. et s. in Herb. Smith). 



Caulis erectuSj ramosus, angulatus, cubitalis, ramis triquetris. Folia lanceolata, 

 long^ acuminata, iraa basi constricta subpetiolata, subttis ad nervos oratn- 

 que scabriuscula, 3-pollicaria, semunciam et ultr^ lata. Umbella sessilis, 

 plerumque 3- v. 4-flora, rariiis 2- v. 5-flora. Pedicelli semunciales, 

 6-angulati, angulis scabriusculis. Flores intense fulvi, Sepala lanceo- 

 lata, acuta, subconduplicata, carinata, semuncialia, raargine scabriuscula. 

 Calcaria recta, obtusa, sepalis 4-pl6 breviora. Filamenta infern^ dilatata, 

 complanata. ^w^Aerce obtusse, fer^ longitudine filamentorum. Ovarium 

 3-gonum, turbinatum. Stigmata recurvata, dorse carinata, superficie 

 minute papillosa, styli triquetri longitudine. 



This is the species upon which the genus was originally proposed to be 

 founded. It has been cultivated in our collections for a considerable period, 

 having been first introduced in 1801 into the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew 

 from China, but its actual native locality is still unknown. Its proper place 

 in the genus is evidently near parviflorum, with which it accords in habit, and 

 in several other respects. The umbels are sessile, and few-flowered ; the 

 sepals calcarate at the base ; and the anthers are about equal in length to the 

 filaments, as the style is to the stigmas. The trivial name of this species is 

 inadvertently printed " fulvum " in the Prodromus Florae Nepalensis, and in 

 the Society's Proceedings. 



Having thus completed my account of Disporum, I shall now add a descrip- 

 tion of the genus already noticed in my introductory remarks. 



