526 Prof. Don's Monograph of Streptopus, S^c. 



plexifolius, roseus, and another species, first described by me under the name 

 of simplex in the Prodromus Florce Nepalensis. These plants have all a 

 peculiar habit, cylindrical leafy stems, broad amplexicaul leaves, glaucous 

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

 amplexifolius are curiously twisted at their middle. The genus undoubtedly 

 belongs to the Smilacece, and is nearly allied to Convallaria and Smilacina, 

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

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

 Uvularia it accords in habit, and in its solitary, axillary, campanulate flowers ; 

 but its innate anthers, furnished with short filaments, baccate pericarpium, 

 and noncarunculate seeds, remove it widely from that genus. 



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

 belonging to them. 



STREPTOPUS. Rich. 



Uvularia sp. L. 



Perianthium 6-phyllum, petaloideum, campanulatum, eequale, deciduum : 

 foUolis sestivatione imbricatis, basi fovea oblonga nectarifera instructis. 

 Stamina 6, basi sepalorum adnata, siinulque dLecifXaa,: Jilamenta brevis- 

 simaj compressa, dilatata : anther ceevcctas, innatse, basi subsagittatee rima 

 duplici longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium 3-loculare : locuUs multi- 

 ovulatis : ovulis erectis. Stigmata 3, recurvata. Pericarpium baccatum, 

 raembranaceum, 3-loculare : loculis polyspermis. Semina duplici serie 

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



Herbse (hemispl). bor.) perennes, rhizomate diviso,Jibroso, multicipite. Caules 

 cylindracei. Folia amplexicaulia, dilatata, multinervia, subtus glaiica. 

 Flores axillares, soUtarii, pedunculati, cernui, lutescentes, albi v. rosei. 

 Baccae globosce, rubrce. 



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



palis obtusfe acuminatis, antheris sagittatis acuminatis, stigmate trilobo, 



baccse loculis 6-spermis. 



Streptopus amplexifolius. Lam. et DeCand. Fl. Franc, iii. p. 174. n. 1856. 



Red. Lil. v. t. 259. Sm. in Rees Cyclop, in loco. Duby Bot. Gall. i. p. 459, 



. Schult.Jil. Syst. vii. p. 310. 



