LILIACEAE - China

Forests, bamboo forest margins, grassy places; 2700–3400 m. WYunnan [N Myanmar].6. Nomocharis meleagrina Franchet, J. Bot. (Morot) 12: 196.1898.多 斑 豹 子 花 duo ban bao zi huaNomocharis biluoensis S. Yun Liang.Bulb white, ovoid, 2.5–3 × 2–2.8 cm. Stem 35–100 cm.Leaves 5–8-whorled, narrowly lanceolate to elliptic, 4.5–11 ×1–3 cm, margin sometimes conspicuously papillose. Flowers 1–4, nodding. Tepals white or tinged pale pink abaxially; outerones blotched purple-red, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 4–5 × (1–)2–2.5 cm, margin entire; inner ones spotted or mainly in distal partblotched purple-red, ovate to elliptic, 4–5 × (1–)2.5–3 cm, marginerose-serrate; nectary processes 2, of low ridges of tissuearranged in a fan shape. Filaments swollen, cylindric, 6–7 mm,and fleshy proximally, abruptly narrowed to a filiform, 2–2.5mm long portion distally. Style 7–9 mm. Capsule oblongovoid.Fl. Jun–Jul, fr. Aug–Sep. 2n = 24*.Abies forests,broad-leaved forests, forest margins, grassy slopes;2800–4000 m. Sichuan, SE Xizang, NW Yunnan.22. CLINTONIA Rafinesque, Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. 2: 266. 1818.七 筋 菇 属 qi jin gu shuChen Xinqi ( 陈 心 启 Chen Sing-chi); Minoru N. TamuraHerbs perennial, with a short rhizome. Leaves several, basal, entire. Scape erect, often leafless. Inflorescence terminal,umbellate or racemose, rarely 1-flowered; rachis and pedicels usually elongate in fruit. Flowers small. Tepals 6, free, ascending tospreading, subequal. Stamens 6, inserted at base of tepals; filaments filiform; anthers pseudobasifixed, ellipsoid, semiextrorse. Ovaryovoid-globose, (2 or)3-loculed; ovules several to many per locule. Style columnar; stigma obscurely 3-lobed. Fruit a berry. Seeds 2or more; testa usually brownish.Five species: temperate to subarctic regions of E Asia and North America; one species in China.Although Tamura (in Kubitzki, Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. 3: 350. 1998) placed Clintonia in the Liliaceae sensu stricto, Wu Zhengyi (editor’s note)believes it should be treated in the segregate family Medeolaceae. Takhtajan (Diversity Classific. Fl. Pl. 487. 1997) recognized Medeolaceae butplaced Clintonia in the Uvulariaceae (pp. 482–483).1. Clintonia udensis Trautvetter & C. A. Meyer in Middendorff,Reise Sibir. 1(Theil 2, Bot. Lief. 3): 92. 1856.七 筋 菇 qi jin guClintonia alpina Kunth ex Baker; C. udensis var. alpina(Kunth ex Baker) H. Hara.Rhizome stiff, ca. 5 mm in thick, covered with fibroussheaths. Leaves 3–5, ± petiolate, obovate, elliptic-obovate, oroblanceolate, 8–25 × 3–16 cm, margin pubescent when young.Scape 10–20 cm, usually to 60 cm in fruit, leafless, denselywhite pubescent. Raceme 3–12-flowered; bracts caducous; pedicelsdensely pubescent, 1–7 cm in fruit. Tepals white or sometimesbluish, oblong,7–12 × 3–4 mm, puberulent abaxially. Stamens4–6(–8) mm. Pistil 6–8 mm; style 3–5 mm. Berry blackishblue, globose or ellipsoid, 7–12 × 7–10 mm, many seeded.Fl. May–Jun, fr. Jul–Oct. 2n = 14, 28.Sparse forests, alpine forests; 1600–4000 m. Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang,Henan, Hubei, Jilin, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xizang,Yunnan [Bhutan, India,Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Russia (Far East,Siberia), Sikkim].Compsoa D. Don, nom. rej.23. TRICYRTIS Wallich, Tent. Fl. Napal. 61. 1826, nom. cons.油 点 草 属 you dian cao shuChen Xinqi ( 陈 心 启 Chen Sing-chi); Hiroshi TakahashiHerbs perennial, with short or sometimes long and creeping rhizomes. Stems usually erect or ascending, sometimes brancheddistally. Leaves cauline, alternate, subsessile, usually ± amplexicaul. Inflorescence a thyrse or thyrsoid, rarely a raceme. Flowers bisexual,solitary, showy. Perianth campanulate or trumpet-shaped. Tepals 6, free, white or yellow with purplish spots, usually recurvedor reflexed distally, usually caducous; outer ones saccate or shortly spurred. Stamens 6, inserted at base of tepals; filaments slightlyflattened, proximally connivent to form a short tube; anthers dorsifixed, versatile, extrorse. Ovary 3-loculed; ovules many per locule.Style columnar; stigmatic lobes 3, spreading, apically cleft. Fruit a capsule, broadly cylindric, 3-angled, septicidal. Seeds many, ovateto orbicular, flattened, small.About 18 species: from the Himalayas to E Asia; nine species (six endemic) in China.1a. Flowers or inflorescences all axillary ............................................................................................................................... 7. T. suzukii1b. Flowers or inflorescences terminal or sometimes also axillary.2a. Ovary and capsule densely pubescent .................................................................................................................. 4. T. lasiocarpa2b. Ovary and capsule glabrous or subglabrous.