Lihacee —Funckia. sr 
8, FONCKIA. 
Herbaceous plants with tuberous-fascicled roots, broadly ovate 
or cordate radical stalked plaited acuminate leaves having 
parallel veins or nerves, and sometimes variegated with white 
stripes. Flowers solitary in the axils of bracts, forming a 
raceme terminating the usually leafless stem. Several of the 
species have been published under the preceding genus, from 
which they differ in their broad foliage and racemose inflores- 
cence. This genus was named in honour of H. Funck, a Ger- 
man botanist. The species are all from Japan. They are not 
so well defined as they might be, on account of the confusion 
among garden varieties, and the introduction of the same 
species under different names. Mr. Baker, in the ‘ Gardener’s 
Chronicle,’ 1868, reduces the cultivated forms to five species, 
distinguished as follows :— 
1. F. luncifolia.—Petiole 6 to 9 inches long, edges not in- 
eurved ; lamina oblong-lanceolate, 3 to 4 inches long by 14 to 
2 inches broad, narrowed gradually towards both ends, 9- to 11- 
nerved. Scape or flower-stem 8 to 9 inches high, scarcely over- 
topping the leaves ; raceme 3 to 5 inches long, 6- to 10-flowered, 
with lanceolate-spathulate bracts equalling the perianth in 
length. Perianth 1} to 14 inch long, white or with a lilac 
tinge, dilated suddenly from a tube not more than a line in 
thickness. F. albo-margindta barely differs in its rather larger 
flowers and leaves slightly variegated towards the edge with 
white. F. undulata appears to-be a cultivated form of this 
with frilled or crisped leaves copiously variegated with streaks 
or patches of white, and shorter dilated petioles. 
2. F. ovata.-—Petiole 9 inches to a foot long, edges not in- 
curved; lamina 6 or 7 inches long by 4 or 5 broad, ovate, 
rounded or slightly cordate at the base, acute at the apex, 15- to 
17-nerved. Scape including the raceme considerably over- 
topping the leaves, with a large leaf below the raceme, which is 
5 to 6 inches long and 10- to 15-flowered. Perianth typically 
a decided bluish-lilac, occasionally white, 2 to 24 inches long, 
dilated suddenly from a tube an eighth of an inch in thickness. 
This is the commonest and best known species. 
3. F. Sieboldiana.—Petiole a foot long, edges not incurved ; 
lamina 10 or 12 inches long by 6 or 7 broad, cordate-ovate, 
cuspidate, 25- to 27-nerved. Scape not overtopping the leaves ; 
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