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964. Disporum Salisb. 
erbs with erect, angular, leafy stems, rising from a creeping 
rootstock ; leaves sessile or subsessile, enuaaate nerve 
in terminal or axillary, few-flowered umbels; sedate decurved. 
Perianth narrowly campanulate, deciduous ; lobes petaloid, sub- 
equal, free, erect or spreading at tips, ease bases saccate or 
spurred. Stamens 6, hypogynous; filam filiform or flat- 
tened ; anthers dorsifixed ; eugene ee “Canpele 3, connate 
short ; stigmas 8, short. poe a fleshy, pisiform, black berry. 
Seeds few, subglobose; testa brown; albumen horny; embryo 
sma 
2290, DIsPoRUM PULLUM wae F. B. I. vi. 360. 
hota Nagpur, Par. 
A herb, annual tendy? ae 2-4 feet high. 
965. Gloriosa Linn. 
Climbing herbs with leafy stems, springing from a naked, 
tuberous rootstock ; leaves alternate, opposite, or 3-nately whorled, 
lanceolate, strongly nerved, with a long, spiral, tendril-like a 
Flowers large, showy, axillary, solitary; pedicels reflexed. 
Perianth petaloid, persistent; segments 6, subequal, spreading 
d Ss ; 
stigmatic within. Fruit a large, coriaceous, septicidal capsule. 
Seeds subglobose; testa spongy, wing- ee: embryo cylindric. 
2221. Grortosa supeRBA Linn.; F. I. ii. 143; F. B. I. vi. 358; 
D. G. 248. 
In most of the provinces. 
A climbing herb, the leaves with cirrhate tips; root- 
stock a chain of tuber-like joints, agen from the 
convex upper side. Hind. Languli, k , kaliari; 
oe Bisha-languli, ulat-chandal ; Saniel Sirie’ 
aman 
966. Iphigenia Kunth. 
Herbs with small, tunicate corms, and erect, leafy, slender 
stems ; leaves few, scattered, linear, the upper bract-like. Flowers 
Small, erect, solitary or corymbose. Perianth petaloid, 6-partite, 
