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PI. 60 A 61] EBBMUBUS TBILLIUM ABISABMA 181<br />
awl-lance-shaped, as long as the flower-stalks which measure<br />
f in. Flowers white, 1 in. diameter; segments 6, oblong,<br />
1-nerved, about as long as the filaments. Ovary 3-celled<br />
4-6 ovules in each cell. Capsule i in. diameter.<br />
Fruits.-* June.<br />
Locality. Near Shirazia Bagh ;<br />
hills surrounding Gulmarg,<br />
open grassy and stony hill-side, 7,500 ft., common.<br />
Distribution. Temperate W. Himalaya, in the drier regions,<br />
from Kashmir to the Sutlej, 7,000-10,000 ft.<br />
TRILLIUM, Linn.<br />
Plate 61<br />
(From the Latin trilijr, woven with three sets of leashes, tripletwilled,<br />
alluding to the parts of the flower being in threes.)<br />
Pigs. 1 and 2. Trillium (Jovanianum, Wall.<br />
A hairless herb. Kootstock creeping, short, thick. Stems<br />
6-10 in., erect, unbranched. Leaves 3, short-stalked, broadly<br />
egg-shaped, l^-4j by 1J-4 in., sharp-pointed, arranged in a<br />
whorl at the top of the stem, with a solitary stalked flower<br />
in the middle. Perianth lurid purple, persistent ; segments 6,<br />
distinct, narrowly lance-shaped, -1 in. long, spreading in<br />
flower, bent back in fruit. Stamens 6, attached to the base,<br />
erect, much shorter than the perianth, anthers yellow ovary<br />
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3-celled. Style purple, divided to the base into 3 long,<br />
linear arms. Berry globose, J-f in. diameter. Seeds many,<br />
egg-shaped, with a pulpy appendage at the side.<br />
Flowers. May, June.<br />
Locality. Gulmarg, grassy woods, above 8,000 ft., common<br />
;<br />
Khelanmarg, forest, 9,500 ft. ;<br />
Tosh Maidan, on steep stony<br />
hill-side, 9,600 ft.<br />
Distribution. Temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir, 8,000-<br />
10,000 ft., to Sikkim, 9,000-11,000 ft.<br />
AROIDACEAE.<br />
The Arum Family.<br />
(From Arum, the ancient name of these plants.)<br />
ABISAEMA, Mart.<br />
(From the Greek arisamos, conspicuous, distinguished.)<br />
Many small, 1 -sexual flowers are usually crowded on a<br />
fleshy erect column, called spadix, which is enclosed in a large<br />
bract, called spathe ; the lower portion is called spathe-tube,<br />
the upper spathe-limb. The male and female flowers are on<br />
the same or on different plants. If the two sexes are on the<br />
same spadix, they are in distinct zones. The female below
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