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3 valved : valves septiferous in the middle : seeds many, 

 globose, angled or compressed : testa membranaceous, tbin, 

 sometimes amplified into a wing: albumen fleshy or sub- 

 cartUaginous : embryo minute, elliptic, oblong or cylindric, 

 next the hilum : radicle centrifugal. Caulescent herbs, often 

 poisonous: roots bulbous, tuberous — fleshy, or fasciculately 

 fibrous : stem simple or branched : leaves scattered, sessile, 

 embracing at the base : flowers usually panicled or racemosely 

 spiked. 



GENUS I. DISPOEUM. 



Hexandrla Monoerynia. Sex: Syst: 



Beriv. From Dis, twice, and Poros, a pore. 



Gen. Chab. Sepals 6, coloured, deciduous, spathulate — lanceo- 

 late, distinct, campanulately connivent, saccate, sub-calcarate at the 

 base : stamens 6, inserted at the base of the sepals : filaments' 

 subulate : anthers oblong, 2-celledj dehiscing lengthways : ovary 

 sessile, 3-ceUed : ovules 2 in each cell, fixed to the inner angle, 

 ascending, sessile, anatropal : style 3-cleft : segments stigmatose 

 within, spreading, recurved at the apex : fruit baccate, indehiscent, 

 turbiuately 3-comered, 3-celled, 3- or by abortion 1-seeded : seeds 

 solitary, seldom twin, brown, smooth, convex : hilum naked, basilar, 

 albumen homy : embryo sub-clavate. — Perennial, erect, branched, 

 glabrous herbs : stems angled : leaves scattered, very shortly 

 petioled : fiowers terminal in very short 1 -leaved branohlets, ■ 

 peduncled, umbellate, nodding : berries black, 3 cornered. 



(1) D. CALCAKATUM. {BoU.J 



Ident. Don in Proo. Linn. Soc. Nov. 1839. — Kimth Enum. 

 pi. iv. p. 207. 



Spec. Chae. Umbels peduncled, somewhat 5-flowered : sepals 

 lanceolate, acutish, long-spurred at the base : anthers, filaments and 

 stigmas 3 times longer than the style : leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 sessile : fl.owers gi-een. 



Khasia mountains. 



(2) D. Wailichii. (Bon.J 



Ident. Don 1. o. — Kunth 1. c. 



Spec. Chab, Umbels sessile, somewhat 5-flowered : sepals 

 lanceolate, acuminate : spurs straight, abbreviated : anthers" four 

 times shorter than the filaments, style longer than the stigmas : 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate, somewhat petioled : flowers white. 



Khasia mountains. 



