ASPIDISTRA

aspidistra, a small genus of the lily order (liliaceae), native of the himalayas, china and japan. _aspidistra lurida_ is a favourite pot-plant, bearing large green or white-striped leaves on an underground stem, and small dark purplish, cup-shaped flowers close to the ground. aspirotrichaceae (o. butschli), an order of ciliate infusoria, characterized by an investment, general or partial, of nearly uniform cilia, without any distinct adoral wreath, and one or two adoral endoral undulating membranes. with the gymnostomaceae it formed the holotricha of stein.