TRICYRTIS PI LOS A. 
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TRICYRTIS PI LOS A, Wall. TAB. 46. 
Uvularia ltirta , Thunb. japon. p. 136 ? 
Legi in montibus Sheoporc et Chandagiry, florentem Junio et Julio, fructigeram 
Septembre. 
IIiM-ba erecta, bi- tri- ad quadripedalis, villis obsita longis, sparsis, distinctly, hyali- 
nis, niollissimis. Radix brevis, einittens libras plures filiformes,teretes, pallidas. Caulis, 
nunc duo tresve, teretes, crasside culmi avenacei, graciles, attenuati, nunc apiee 
ram u I os emittentes paucos, simplices, brevissimos, leviter inter folia flexuosi, pilosi, 
basi purpurescentes, omnino evaginati. Folia alterna, sessilia, erecto-patentia, meni- 
branacea, ovato-cordata, amplexicaulia, attenuata in acumen longmn, subtrinervium, 
leviter undulato-repanda, integerriuia, plana, quadri- ad sexpoUicaria, siiiu baseos 
profundo, siepius angusto, lobis ovatis, obtusissimis, fere semipollicaribus, utrinque 
moUissiuia propter pilos sparsos, sericcos, patentes; supra pallide viridia, juxta nervos 
sulcata, subtus albescentia, novem-uema, costti gracili, nervos alleruos, tenuissimos, 
admodum obliquos cmittente; media caulis rnajora; caulium novellorum ovato-Ianceo- 
lata, basi simplici, angustata adnata \ Jforalia lanceolato-cordata, parva. Panicula ter¬ 
minal is, paucitlora, palmam longa, suhdicliotome ratnulosa, foliolosa, pilosa. Pedunculi 
teretes, graciles,sesquipollicares, inferiores Ibliolo florali, superiores bractea lanceolate, 
unguiculari sulfulti, uuiflori, inarticulati, apice vi.v incrassati. Flos erectus, ex albo > iri- 
desceus, inodorus, elegans, intus uti genitalia guttulis atropurpureis pictus, basi sub- 
tubulosus, tri-tuberculatus vel subtricalcaratus, limbo patenti, subcampanulato, parum 
revoluto, fere pollleari. Foliola (fig. 1. 2.) lanccolata, attenuato-acuminata, pollicaria, 
duplici ordine alternatim disposita : exteriora parum latiora et longiora, extus puberula, 
basi exsculpta fove4 mellifera, extus in tuberculum calearifonue protrudente, sesquili- 
neam longum, truncatum, rccte divergens; aestivatione valvata; intvriora basi simplicia, 
absque fovea vel gibbere, marginibus sestivatione parallelis, haud verb contiguis. 
Stamina (fig. 1.) perianthium longitudine sequantia ; t filamenta teretia, carnosa, pur- 
jmreo-guttata, apice reeurvata nutantia, loliolis perianthii opposita, eorumque basi ad- 
fixa. Anthera ? majuseulae, ovata?, plance, biloculares, utrinque longitudinulitcr deliis- 
centes, dorso adfixae, extrorsum nutantes, antics. Pis fi Hum (fig. 1.) longitudine sta- 
minuin, erectum ; nrariuMi (fig. 3.) oblongo-prisniaticiim, pallidb viride, lieve, angulis 
promineutibu8, lateribus sulco notatte, triloculare, polysporum : uvula plurima, sim¬ 
plici serie axi adfixa. Stylus obscure triangularis, divisus in lobos tres, ipso 
longiores, trilineares, divaricato-patentissimos, asperulos, divisos in stigmata sex, capi- 
tellato-glandulosa, carnosa, recurvato-hamulosa, acuta. Capsula (fig. 4. 5. 6.) triquetro- 
prismatica, Uevis, pallide fuscescens, lateribus canaliculatis, sesquipollicaris, trilocu- 
laris, apice trivalvis, raids brevibus, plicatis, angustatis. Dissepimenta ex inversis val¬ 
vular nm marginibus constructa Semina (fig. 7. 8.) parva, densissimb imbricata, plana, 
atra, ovata, umbilico parvo, planiusculo notata, simplici serie axi inserta. Integumen- 
tum simplex, rugis densis, transversis, venuJisque longitudinalibus paucis ornatum, 
laxius adhaerens. Perispermum copiosum, carnosum. Embryo (fig. 9.) miuutus, sub- 
ulatus, in cavitate mucosa, ad extremitatem perisperuii umbilico oppositam, locates. 
Observation. 
This very elegant plant is intermediate between Uvularia and Fritillaria , but 
seems to be gcnerically distinct from both. From the former it differs in general habit 
and mode of inflorescence, in the absence of sheaths of the stem, in only the three 
outer petals being furnished with a nectary, in the anterior direction of the anthers, the 
structure of the style and stigma, in the dissepiment of ibe capsule being formed of the 
inverted margins of the valves, and finally in the flat, scaly seeds. From the latter it 
differs in the figure of the flowers, the above-mentioned partial existence of nectaries, 
the direction of the anthers, the three-lobed style, bifid stigmas, and finally in its 
