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Disporum (From dis double and poros)

(from dis, double, and poros, a pore; application not stated). Including Prosartes. ORD. Liliaceae. A genus consisting of about a dozen species of perennials, natives of North America and the mountains of tropical Asia. Flowers solitary or clustered, at the tips of the branches. Leaves alternate, sessile or shortly stalked, ovate or lanceolate. Stems creeping, spreading, or erect from an underground rhizome, sparingly branched, leafy. The species thrive in a moist peaty border, and prefer partial shade. Propagated by seeds, or by dividing the plants in spring, before active growth commences.

D. fulvum (tawny). A synonym of D. pullum.

D. Hookerii (Hooker's). fl. greenish, one to six; segments spreading above, 1/2in. long, narrowed at base; stamens nearly equa1ing, or a little exceeding, the perianth. l. ovate, mostly deeply cordate, rough on the margins and nerves beneath. h. 1ft. to 2ft. Californis.

D. lanuginosum (woolly).* fl. yellow, green; peduncles dichotomous, two-flowered. May. l. ovate-lanceolate, far acuminate, three-ribbed, reticulately veined, downy on the under, naked on the upper, surface. Stem terminating in two or three divergent branches, from green becoming brown, adpressedly downy. h. 1ft. South Caro1ina, 1758. Greenhouse. (B. M. 1490, under name of Uvularia lanuginosa.) D. Menziesii (Menzies'). fl. greenish, one to five; segments nearly erect, 1/2in. to 1in. long; stamens a third shorter than the perianth. l. ovate to ovate-lanceolate, narrowly acuminate, rounded or slightly cordate at base, more or less woolly-pubescent. h. 1ft. to 3ft. California. D. pullum (dusky).* fl., corolla brown without, cernuous, longer than pedicels, cupped-campanulate; racemes one to four-flowered, axillary. September. l. ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, shortly petioled, nerved. Stem herbaceous, 1 1/2ft. high, angular, subgeniculately flexuous. China, 1801. A singular greenhouse plant. SYN. D. fulvum. (B. M. 916, under name of Uvularia chinensis.) D. p. parviflorum (small-flowered) only differs from the type in its smaller flowers.