326 cLvi. LiLiACBiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Tupistra. 



9. ASPIDISTRA, Ker. 



Characters of Tupistra, but scape very stort, 1-fld. ; flowers tetramerous, 

 embraced by concave sheathing bracteoles inserted at the base of the 

 perianth. — Species 3 or 4, Himalayan, Japanese and Chinese. 



A. longrifolia, Hook. f. ; leaves 2-3 ft. by 1-2 in. narrowly linear- 

 oblanceolate, bracts 2-3 hemispheric strongly nerved. A. Inrida, Baker 

 in Jotirn. Linn. Sac. xiv. 579, not of Ker. 



Uppisb Assam; in the Mishmi hills, Griffith. 



Uootstock stout, creeping. Leaves tufted, rather thin, contracted into a rigid 

 deeply grooved petiole that is produced into a trigonous keel extending half way up 

 the leaf more or less, nerves close set slender. Peduncle J-J in., stout, with a boat- 

 shaped bract at the top. Flower (bud ?) very shortly pedicelled ; bracts scarious, 

 rounded at theiapex ; perianth ^ in. diam., fleshy, snbglobose contracted at the mouth ; 

 lobes very small. Anthers sessile, recurved. Stigma very large. — ^A very different 

 plant from the A. lurida, Ker of China. 



10. CONIOSCVFHA, Baker. 



Leaves radical, petioled, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, oostate and 

 strongly nerved. Scape radical, bracts elongate-subulate much exceeding 

 the flowers ; spike erect, cylindric, crowned with a tuft of flowerless per- 

 sistent bracts. Ferianth-iube cylindric ; lobes 6, short, broadly ovate, 

 spreading. Stamens 6, inserted in the throat of the perianth, filaments 

 very short; anthers erect, linear-oblong. Ovary snbglobose, 3-celled; 

 style columnar ; stigma small, 3-lobed ; cells 2-ovuled. 



G. eucomoides, Baker in Joum. Linn. Soc. xiv. 581, t. 19 ; N.U. 

 Br. in Gard. Chron. 1886, ii. 744. 



Bhotan Himalaya ; in the Duphla hills, alt. 4500 ft.. Booth, Lister. 



Rootstoek long, fleshy. Leaves 1-2 ft. by 6-8 in., narrowed into a petiole 4 in. 

 long, subpinnately 10-i2-nerved. Scape 8-9 in., stout, strict, terete, with basal 

 scarious sheaths; spikes 3 in., dense-fld., cylindric; bracts setaceous, persistent ; 

 flowers at length deflexed, nearly ^ in. long, dark green. Berry ovoid, ^-J in. long, 

 fleshy, 1-seeded. 



10* Hemeeooallis, Linn. 

 Bootsiock very short, with fleshy root-fibres. Leaves elongate, narrowly 

 linear, costate and many-nerved. Scape elongate, terete, naked, bearing a 

 few-fld. panicle ; bracts deciduous. I/lowers large, suberect, orange-yellow. 

 Perianth funnel-shaped, 6-partite, segments connate at the base in a tube, 

 then recurved, outer smaller. Stamens 6, inserted at the mouth of the 

 tube, exserted, filaments filiform, declinate, inserted in a dorsal pit of the 

 linear-obloiig versatile anther. Ovary 8-celled ; style filiform, declinate, 

 stigma capitate ; cells many-ovuled. Capsule triquetrous, coriaceous, 

 looulicidal. Seeds angled ; testa thin, black, shining ; embryo cylindric. — 

 Species 5, Europe, temp. Asia and Japan. 



H. fulva, Linn. Sp. Fl. Ed. ii. 462 ; inner perianth-segments much 

 larger and broader than the outer, margins undulate with reticulate nerves. 

 Kunth JEnum. iv. 688 ; Baker in Joum. Linn. Soc. xi. 359 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, v. 312; Bot. Mag. t. 64; Eedoute Lil. t. 16; Beichh. Ic. Fl. 

 Germ. t. 1113 ; Wall. Cat. 8975. H. disticha, Do»i in Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard. 

 t. 28. 



