360 CLVi. LiLiAOB^. (J. D. Hooker.) IDisporum. 



Stem 1-2 ft. Leaves 2-3 in., oblong-lanceolate, acaminate. Flowers ^-f in. 

 long, usually narrow, white greenish or purplish ; spurs very variable, in short flowered 

 specimens i in. long, equalliag the blade of the sepal in length. St^le slender, rarely 

 exserted. 



Son gives the following characters to the species united above : — calcaratma, 

 sepals lanceolate acuminate long-spurred, filaments thrice as long as the anthers. 

 Wallichii, sepals lanceolate acuminate, spur short straight, filaments five times as 

 long as the anthers. Samiltonianum, sepals lanceolate acute, spur short re- 

 curved, anthers as long as the filaments. An original drawing of the latter 

 (Hamilton's " Betua," spelled Betiya) has acuminate narrow purple sepals with very 

 short spurs ; it is not distinguishable from a drawing by Horsfield of the Javanese 

 multiflorum (Horsfieldiii), The Burmese D. laiipetalum has broader sepals and in 

 this respect approaches the Chinese Z>. tmiflorum, berry intermediate. 



2. D. pullum, Sdlish. in Trans. Sort. Soc. i. 330; perianth-segments 

 spathnlate or lanceolate acute or acuminate base saccate or subsaocate. 

 Don. Prodr. 60 ; in Trans. Lvnn. Soc. xviii. 521 ; Kuvth Enum. iv. 208 ; 

 Baker in Joum. Linn. Soc. xiv. 589. D. Pitsutum, Son II. cc. 50 and 519; 

 Kunfh 1. e. 207. D. fulvum {error for pullum), Don Prodr. 50. D. multi- 

 florum, Don in Proc. lAim. Soc. v. 45 ; in Trans. Linn. Soc. I. c. 518 ; 

 Kunfh I. c. 207 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 552. D. parviflornm, Don II. cc. 

 50 and 520 ; Kunth I. c. 208. D. Horsfieldii, Don in Proc. Linn. Soc. Nov. 

 1839. UTularia obinensis, &awl. in Bot. Mag. t. 916. U. parviflora and 

 umbellata, Wall, in Asiat. B^searcJi. xili. 379; Plant. As. Ear. iii. 43, 

 t. 269 ; Gat. 5090. U. multiflora, Seinio. in Bhime Cat. PLort. Buitenz. 62. 

 U. parviflora, Wall, in As. B,es. xiii. 378 ; Cat. 5091 in part. TJ. Haiml- 

 toniana, TTaW. Cat. 6088 C in part, D. Streptopus chinensis and pedun- 

 cnlaris. Smith in BiCes Cyclop, under TJvularia. Drapiezia multiflora, 

 Blume PJwwm. i. 8. 



Tempebate HiMAtATA ; from Garwhal eastwards, alt. 4-8000 ft. Khasia and 

 MuNNipoEE Hills. Behab, on Farusnath. — Distbib. Sumatra, Java, China. 



Stem 2-4 ft., sometimes robust, or branched. Leaves 2—6 in,, ovate-oblong or 

 lanceolate, acute or acuminate. Flowers white or dull purple, in sessile or peduocled 

 many- or few-fid. umbels j pedicels 4—1 in. 



The type of this species is the Chinese uvularia chinensis of the Botanical Magazine, 

 a purple flowered plant hardly distinguishable irom shortly spurred specimens of 

 calcaratum. The flowers are narrow, nearly an inch long, with lanceolate acute 

 sepals and filaments twice as long as the anthers. D. multiflorum has numerons 

 very small white flowers, with snbspathulate mucronate sepals and filaments twice as 

 long as the anthers. JO. Fitsutum has short cuneately lanceolate subacute white 

 sepals, spreading from near the saccate base, and filaments longer or shorter than the 

 anthers, it passes into Lesehenaultianum. I have found it single-flowered in Sikkim 

 where it is identified with Baker's Chinese D. mtijiorum. D. parviftorum hiis white 

 fiowers only J-J in. long, with narrow lanceolate acuminate sepals, and filaments 

 about twice as long as the anthers. 



3. D. Keschenaultlanum, Don m Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 618; 

 perianth-segments broadly oblong acute or acuminate base saccate. Kunth 

 Ertum. iv. 207 ; BaJcer in Joum. Linn. Soc. xiv. 590 ; Thwaites Enum. 338 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 2048 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6935. D. ceylanicum and mysorense. 

 Wight Ic. t. 2049. Uvularia Leschenaultiana, Wall. Gat. 6089. 



The Westebn Ghats ; irom Canara southwards. Cetion, alt. 4-7000 ft. 



Stem 1-2 ft., branched above. Leaves mostly shortly petioled, 2-4 in., and 

 broadly ovate or oblong-ovate, acuminate, but very variable in breadth. Flowers 

 quite white, in 3-5-fld. umbels. Perianth I in. long; segments obtuse, obscurely 



