N. 0. LILLIACEjE. 
1285 
N. 0. LILIACE^. 
1270. Smilax glabra , Roxb., H.F.B.I., vi., 302 ; 
Roxb. 725. 
Vern . : — Badi chobchini (H.) ; Harind-shuk-china(B.) ; 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 lf-2fin., elliptic 
or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 3-costate to the rounded or 
cuneate base, rather thin, petiole, i-§ in., narrowly sheathing, 
unarmed ; cirrhi very slender ; sheath f-?in., long, axillary. 
Umbles many-fid ; penduucle ebracteate ; pedicels f-fin., brac- 
teoles subulate. Flowers very small, white ; buds 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 1-6 by ll-3in., orbicular-oblong or oblong-lance- 
olate, acuminate, 3-costate ; base acute, membranous, subcaudate, 
intra-marginal nerves very slender, punctulate, and lineolate. 
Petiole 2 -fin., sheath, obscure. Male umbel, subsessile, 15-25-fid 
pedicels fin., filiform ; bracteoles ovate, acute. Flowers fin. 
diam., peduncles, naked, shorter than the petioles. Sepals and 
