530 Prof. Don's Monograph of Streptopus, &jc. 



Michaux in Canada, and on the mountains of Nortli Carolina ; and Pursh 

 states it to be lil^ewise a native of the mountains of Pennsylvania. It is 

 evidently a scarce plant, having been seen by but few American botanists in 

 a wild state ; and Elliott, in his interesting Flora of South Carolina and Georgia, 

 was obliged to describe it from a dried specimen sent him by a botanical cor- 

 respondent at Philadelphia. 



The plant flowered in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew in May 1812, having 

 been introduced by the late Mr. John Lyon from North Carolina, and a figure 

 of it was published in the September number of the Botanical Magazine for 

 that year. In Dr. Boott's Herbarium there are specimens collected by him in 

 the State of Vermont, and others gathered by Mr. Audubon in the Esquimaux 

 Islands, a groiip of islets in the Gulf of St. Lawrence off the south coast of 

 Labrador. Michaux's figure of this plant erroneously represents the peduncles 

 as convolute at their middle. 



3. S. simplex, glaber ; pedunculis rectis ! nudis, sepahs obtusis, antheris cor- 

 dato-lanceolatis obtusis, stigmatibus styli sublongitudine, baccse loculis 

 10 — 12-spermis. 

 Streptopus simplex. Don Prodr. Fl. Nepal, p. 48. Schult.Jil. Syst. vii. 



p. 312. 

 S. Candida. Wall. Cat. n. 51 12. 

 Hab. in Emodi montibus ad Gosaingthan {Wallich) ; in montibus Kamaon- 

 ensibus. R. Blinkivorth. 11 . (v. s. sp. in Herb. Wall.) 



Caulis ^rectus, ramosus, teres, glaber, Ifevissimus, bi- v. tripedalis, infernfe nudi- 

 usculus. Folia amplexicaulia, cordato-oblonga, acuminata, multinervia, 

 membranacea, utrinque margineque glabra, supra Iset^ viridia, laevissima, 

 subti^s glauca, nervisque prominulis subcostata, 3-pollicaria, sesquipol- 

 licem lata: lobis posticis rotundatis, invicem se imbricantibus. Flores 

 majores, nivei. Pedunculi capiliares, glabri, uniflori, sesqui- v. bipol- 

 licares, recti, recurvati, nudi, nee appendiculati, nee medio convoluti. 

 Sepala elliptico-oblonga, obtusa, semuncialia, apice patentia, nee recurvata. 

 Filamenta brevissima, hinc plana, inde angulo elevato carinata. Antheras 

 cordato-lanceolatse, obtusoe, filamentis tripl6 longiores. Stylus trigonus, 

 ovario dupl6 longior. Stigmata 3, longiuscula, recurvato-patentia, stylo 



