Peliosanthes.] cl. HJiMoiioeacej;. (J. D. Hooker.) 267 



nate in Andrews' drawing, acute in that of the " Botanical Magazine." — A very 

 little-known plant. Maingaj's specimens accord with the figures but they are 

 flowerless. 



8. P. Bakerl, MooTc. f. ; dwarf, leaves elliptic-lanceolate 5-7-nerved, 

 petiole slender, scape very short, raceme short, bracts snbulate-lanceolate 

 all or the lower much longer than the small pedioelled flowers. P. humilis, 



■ Baker in Journ. Linn. isoc. xvii. 605 (earcl. Fenang). 



Easieen Himalaya, alt. 1-6000 ft., J. D. H. ; Clarke; Mishmi Hills, 

 Griffith. Kbasia Hills, alt. 3-5000 ft., J. D. E. & T. T. 



Leaves 4-7 by 1-2 in., thin, subcaudately acuminate; petiole as long. Saceme 

 hardly exceeding the petiole ; pedicels sometimes i in. long, and lower bracts nearly 

 i in. J perianth ^ in. diam., green or lurid purple (Glarlce}, Seeds small, oblong. — 

 There are cultivated specimens in Wallich's Herbarium from the Calcutta Botanical 

 Garden under No. 5083 D. 



9. P. albida, Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 7110; leaves stoutly petioled 

 5-8-nerved, scape very short, raceme very long many-fid., bracts subulate- 

 lanceolate longer than the small white shortly pedioelled flowers. 



Penahg; Qurtis. 



Leaves 12 by 1^-2 in., elliptic-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, nerves strong ; 

 petiole about half as long as the blade. Raceme longer than the petiole, stout, 

 strict, white ; lower bracts 4 in. long, narrow ; flowers deflexed ; perianth ^-j in. 

 diam. ; outer segments broadly ovate, inner orbicular-obovate ; anthers very small 

 within the much contracted mouth of the low truncate staminal tube. Ovarian cells 

 about 5-ovuled. Style shurt, columnar, stigma 3-lobed. 



3. OPKZOPOGOM, Ker. 



Scapigerous herbs. Stem short from a short rootstock or elongate 

 subscandeij-t. Leaves linear or lanceolate parallel-nerved. Scape leafy or 

 leafless, flowers racemed ; bracts scarious, usually many-fld. Perianth 

 superior, segments spreading. Stamens 6, on the bases of the segments, 

 filaments short, erect ; anthers basifixed. Ovary inferior, 3-celled, crown. 

 flat or depressed ; style columnar, stigma 3- toothed ; ovules 2 in each cell, 

 collateral, erect, anatropous. Fruit indehiscent. Seeds few, as in Felio- 

 sanihes, testa fleshy or succulent. — Species 8 or 10, East Asiatic. 



OpMopogon was established in 1807 by Ker-Gawler (Bot. Mag. t. 1063) on 

 the figure of a plant supposed to be the Convallaria japcnica ^ minor of Thunberg 

 (Fl. Jap. 140), and to which .Gawler gave the name of 0. japonicus, referring to it 

 the C. japcnica of Decandolle in Eedoute's Liliac. ii. t. 80 (Gawler's description is, 

 however, that of a third plant). Judging from the figures, Gawler's and UecandoUe's 

 are not of the same species. Gawler's has blue flowers, iinear-ohlong perianth seg- 

 ments, and liuear-oblong obtuse anthers; Eedoute's has much smaller white flowers, 

 ovate perianth-segments, and longer acute anthers. Both difier from any Indian 

 species (except, perhaps, that mentioned at the end of thegenus of whii;h there are no 

 flowers) in their small size, very short scape, and above all in the very short fusiform 

 6-groovedstjle, which was observed by Don (Prodr. 48) but overlooked by subsequent 

 authors. Specimens of both are in Kew Herb. ; that of Gawler, from Japan, is 0. 

 japonicus Gawl. gentiinus of Maximovicz ; the other is a continental garden specimen 

 trom Herb. Gay of what is clearly the plant figured in Iledoute, and which is also 

 figured in Schroder's Neues Journ. t. 1 as Fluggea japcnica, Rich. 



0. japonicus hence disappears from the Flora of British India; all the Indian 

 species having slender styles; but I am not prepared to say whether or no any 

 other Indian.species may be identical witli Japanese, They are extremely variable and 



