Bulia.] LXXT. EtJBiACEa;. (J. D. Hooker.) 203 



hare hispid branches and leaves pubescent beneath ; they have neither flowers nor 

 fruit. 



2. R. tlnctornm, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 689 ; scandent, leaved sub- 

 sessile 4-6 in a whorl elliptic or lanceolate acuminate penni-nerved, nerves very ' 

 obscure. Boiss. Fl. Or. lii. 17. 



Kashmir, Falconer, and Sindh, Stocks; cultivated in both. — Disthib. Affghan- 

 istan and westward to Spain, cultivated or wild. 



Stem elongate ; angles seabrid or prickly. Leaves 2-4 by i-\\ in., acuminate, 

 margins and nerves beneath prickly. Cymes terminal, panicled, spreading, leafy. 

 Corolla rotate ; lobes ovate-laneeolate, apieulate. Anthers linear-oblong, i'rwit ^-^ 

 in. diam., didymous and globose. 



3. B. himalayense, Klotzsch in, Pr. Wold. Heise Sot. 86, t. 76 ; leaves 

 elliptic-ovate or obovate subacute or tip rounded often apieulate penni-nerved, 

 nerves very obscure. R. aculeata, Ho^le Lll. 237, name only. 



Western HiMAiATA ; Kunawur, Eoyle, Munro, Kashmir, Falconer. — Distbib. 

 Affghanistan. 



This differs markedly from R. tinctorwrn in its slender habit, shorter broader 

 more distinctly petioled leaves, which are also membranous and are usually obovate 

 with a rounded apieulate tip; the corolla, too, is more funnel-shaped. Griffith 

 observes tbat it occurs in hedges and fields, and that he did not see it cultivated, 

 whereas he marks R. tinctorum as cultivated. 



4. B. sikkimensls, Kurx in Jowm. As. Soc. 1874, ii. 188 ; scandent, 

 scabnd, leaves sessile 4 in a whorl elliptic or ovate-lanceolate acute or acumi- 

 nate 3-5-nerved from the base. 



Eastern Himalaya; from Sikkim, alt. 2-5000 ft., J. D. H., &c. ; and Bhotan, 

 Griffith, to the Mishmi mountains (Upper Assam). 



A stout climber, branches rettorsely seabrid. Leaves 3-6 by 1-2 in., sometimes 

 cordate, seabrid on both surfaces, sometimes pubescent beneath, base acute or 

 rounded; nerves deeply impressed above. Cymes large, panicled; branches short, 

 spreading, leafy. Corolla rotate, lobes subacute. Anthers globose. Fruit ^ in., 

 smooth. — The handsomest species of the genus. 



5. K. Ed^ewortliii, Hooh.f. ; scandent, pubescent all over, leaves short- 

 petioled 4 in a whorl lanceolate acuminate 3-5-nerved from the base. 



"Western Himalaya ; Kumaon, alt. 3-4000 ft., Edgeworth, Straohey ^ Winter- 

 bottom, Madden. 



Branches hardly seabrid, 8-ribbed, clothed, as are all parts (but less so on the 

 leaves above), with white spreading pubescence. Leaves 2-3 by ^-J in., membra- 

 nous, margins hardly seabrid, nerves deeply impressed above. Cymes as in B. siklei- 

 mensis, but more slender, and the branohes ascending. Corolla-lobes lanceolate, 

 acuminate. Anthers ellipsoid. Fruit glabrous. 



6. B. angrustisslma, Wdl. Cat. 6207; scandent, slightly seabrid, 

 shining, leaves sessile 4^-8 in a whorl very narrowly linear keeled nerveless. G. 

 Don Gen. Syst. iii. 643 ; Kun in Joiwrn. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 162. K. charsefolia, 

 Wcdl. Cat. 6210 ; G. Don I. c. 



Central and Eastern Himalaya, ascending to 4000 ft. ; Nipal, Wallich ; Sikkim, 

 J. D. H., C. B. Clarke.— DisTRiB. Ava. 



Stem excessively branched, itibbed, branches with short internodes. Leaves 1-4 

 by i-^ in., young filiform, thiji and brittle, flat above, midrib strong bengath, smooth 

 or sparingly seabrid. Cymes very small, often of only S-S-flowers on a peduncle not 

 longer thnn the small florall leaves or (the ? ?) on a slender peduncle ^ in. or less. 

 Flowers minute. Corolla-lobes ovate, acute. Anthets ellipsoid. Fruit ^ in. diam. 

 when didymous, on a slender pedajncle, solitary, globose or didymous, smooth. — 

 Habit and aspect of a climbing Asparagus. 



