Amana Honda (Liliaceae), known as ‘east Asian tulips’, is a spring ephemeral genus endemic to Sino-Japanese Floristic Subregion, mainly distributed in eastern and central China, Japan the Korean peninsula. Chromosome numbers are reported here for first time from 89 populations of (representing all seven accepted species, two new species about be published, suspected species). Three ploidy level...

The goal of this paper is to describe beliefs and treatments for specific forms of Paralysis (falij) and other nervous disorders in the Middle East. Themes to be investigated include, the traditional medicinal practices used to treat Paralysis, as well as their curative methods using traditional herbal medicine. This paper is based on first and secondary sources; interviews with traditional hea...

Floral morphological novelties, like homeotic changes of whorl 1 organs, can easily arise by modifying existing regulatory networks. Ectopic expression of B-function MADS-box genes in whorl 1 leads to a replacement of sepals by petals, as is found in the Liliaceae. In cases where leaf-like sepals or even inflated calyces develop, which ultimately envelop the mature fruit as in Physalis, ectopic...