534 Melanthacee—Uvularia. 
2, UVULARIA. 
Dwarf fibrous-rooted herbs with sessile or clasping ovate- 
lanceolate cauline leaves and solitary or geminate pedunculate 
pendulous yellow flowers. Perianth-segments free to the base, 
linear-lanceolate or spathulate, slightly spreading. Fruit cap- 
sular, few-seeded. A small genus from North America and the 
mountains of Northern India. The name is from wrula, said to 
be applied on account of their medicinal use in diseases of that 
organ. It has also been explained as referring to the pendent 
flowers. 
1. U. grandifloru.—This species grows about a foot high, 
and the oblong-ovate slightly hairy leaves are perfoliate. 
Flowers pale yellow, 14 to 2 inches long, appearing in May or 
June. North America. 
U. pubérula and U. sessilifolia have sessile not-perfoliate 
leaves and pale yellow or cream-coloured flowers; and U. per- 
foliata is near grandiflora, but with smaller flowers. 
8. TRICYRTIS. 
A small genus of Chinese aud Japanese origin. Erect hairy 
; herbs. Leaves alternate, 
ovate or cordate, and 
stem-clasping. Flowers 
in terminal panicles. 
Perianth six-parted, the 
segments forming a ball, 
clawed, the three outer 
bulging at the base. 
From pias, three, and 
xuptos, swollen or 
hump-backed, referring 
to the outer perianth- 
lobes. 
1. 7. hirta.—A hardy 
plant with broad sessile 
ovate-acuminate shining 
nervose leaves. Flowers 
large, in terminal um- 
bels, white thickly 
spotted with purple. 
Fig. 258. Bulbovodium vernum, (f nat. s:2e.) 
