N. 0. LILLIACE.E. 1285 



N. 0. LILIACEJE. 



1270. Smilax glabra, Roxb., h.f.b.i., vi., 302 ; 

 Roxb. 725. 



Vern. : — Badichobchmi (E.) ; Harina-shuk-china (B.j ; Hazina 

 (Garo). 



Habitat : — Eastern Bengal ; Sylhet, and the Garo and Khasi 

 hills. 



The long, white, tender and beautiful flower spikes. Females 

 are cooked and eaten as a savoury vegetable in the Thana 

 district. (K. R. Kirtikar.) 



Climbing, straggling shrubs. Branchlets slender, terete, 

 smooth, unarmed. Leaves, alternate, 3-6 by lj-2£in., elliptic 

 or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 3-costate to the rounded or 

 cuneate base, rather thin, petiole, \-% in., narrowly sheathing, 

 unarmed ; cirrhi very slender ; sheath J-fin., long, axillary. 

 Umbles many-fid ; penduncle ebracteate ; pedicels i-Jin-j brac- 

 teoles subulate. Flowers very small, white ; bads depressed — 

 globose, deeply 6-lobed from the groove on the back of the 

 obovate, cucullate, coriaceous sepals ; petals minute ; stamens 

 very short ; staminodes in female flowers 3. The roots are 

 nodose. (J. D. Hooker.) 



Uses : — A decoction of the fresh root is used by the hill 

 tribes of Assam for the cure of sores and venereal complaints 

 (Watt.) 



1271. 8. lanceaefolia, Roxb. h.f.b.i., vi. 308. 



Roxb. 725. 



Vern. : — Hindi chobchini (H.) ; Gutea-shuk-china (B.). 



Habitat : — Eastern Himalaya, from Sikkim to Bhutan ; the 

 Khasia hills ; Naga-hills and Manipur. 



A climbing shrub. Branches slender, sub-terete ; prickles few 

 or 0. Leaves 4-6 by lj-3in., orbicular-oblong or oblong-lance- 

 olate, acuminate, 3-costate ; base acute, membranous, subcaudate, 

 intra-marginal nerves very slender, punctulate, and lineolate. 

 Petiole i-fin., sheath, obscure. Male umbel, subsessile, 15-25-fid 

 pedicels jin., filiform ; bracteoles ovate, acute. Flowers £in. 

 diam., peduncles, naked, shorter than the petioles. Sepals and 



