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Nolina, a monotypic Georgian genus, is the dehiscence sf ine cap- 
sule other than loculicidal. In the shape of the capsule and its 
large flattened uniseriate seeds, Urginea differs conspicuously from 
all the other genera, thus occupying in Scillew a position quite 
analogous to Dipeadi in Hyacinthew, which has similar seeds and 
capsules. The ovules are usually several and superposed in each 
of three cells; but they are often geminate and collateral, and casu- 
ally even solitary. In Scilla we get all these three variations re- 
presented. In Scilla also the difference between sessile and sti- 
pitate capsules affords useful characters. There is a considerable 
range of variation in the style, which is usually distinct and 
cylindrical. Only in two of the sections of Albuca are the three 
stigmata distinctly separated. 
Sources consulted.—The sources used as a foundation for this 
paper are substantially the same as those employed for my last, of 
which an account will be found at p. 351 of the eleventh volume 
of our ‘ Proceedings.’ The explorations in the interior of the 
Cape district by Mr. Cooper, under the auspices of our Vice- 
President, Mr. Wilson Saunders, have resulted in the discovery 
of a large number of new species of the genus Scilla, section Lede- 
bouria, many of which have been figured in the ‘Refugium.’ Of this 
section we know now nearly forty species against seven in 1843, 
the date of the fourth volume of Kunth’s ‘ Enumeratio? My 
best thanks are due to Dr. Ahlberg and Professor Areschoug, of 
Upsala, for their kindness in lending as many of the type speci- 
mens of Thunberg’s Cape species as L required, which have been 
most useful in clearing up many doubtful points of nomenclature 
in Scilleæ and still more in Anthericez. 
Geographical Distribution.—Of the 201 species which are de- 
scribed under the two tribes here treated, 198 belong to Scillex, 
and only 3 to Chlorogalee. Of the large genera, Scilla, as here 
defined, with 72 species, is confined to the Old World—32 species 
being confined to the Cape, and the others spread widely through 
Europe and the Mediterranean region, with a few in Tropical 
Africa, and outlying species reaching Hindostan, China, and 
Japan. Out of the 73 species of Ornithogalum, 39 belong to the 
Cape. Of its 7 subgenera, two are-exclusively European and 
Oriental, two are exclusively Cape, and the other three mainly 
Cape. A few species are Tropical- African, one only Peruvian and 
Chilian, none East-Indian or East-Asiatic. Urginea, with 24 
species, is spread through the whole of Africa, reaching Hindo- 
stan and South Europe. Of the smaller genera, Eucomis, White- 
