880 . -+= F. Fedde. 
inconspicuae, ultimis crebre reticulatis; petioli graciles, longiores vix: 
1 cm longi. Pedunculi axillares et terminales, gracillimi, 1—2-vel pluri- 
flori, brevi sed petiolos excedentes. Pedicelli capillares, 1—2 cm longi, 
ut bracteolae floresque minute glanduloso-puberuli, bracteolis 6 valde: 
difformibus instructi. Bracteae dum adsint filiformes, 2—3 mm longae. 
Bracteolae 2 minimae infra pedicelli medium positae, oppositae; 4 amplae,. 
persistentes, juxta ovarii basin enatae, confertae, nempe 2 exteriores, 
inaequales, ovales vel ovatae, minores, folium florale et axin spectantes. 
et 2 interiores laterales, auriculiformes, per anthesin ovarium excedentes 
et usque ad 1,5 cm longae. Calycis segmenta subaequalia, lineari- 
lanceolata, circiter 8 mm longa. Corolla tubulosa, bilabiata, circiter 3 cm 
longa, extra rubro-purpurea, intus albo-aurantiaca; tubus latus, rectus, 
usque ad basin inflato-ventricosus, leviter compressus, antice basi breviter 
gibbosus, postice basi bilacunulosus; limbus bilabiatus, labio superiore 
bilobata, lobis rotundatis suberectis, labio infimo paulo longiore intus. 
leviter barbato trilobato, lobis leviter recurvis. Stamina 4, didynama, 
postica e fauce brevissime exserta, glabra, filamentis filiformibus corollae 
basi enatis. Ovarium inferum, glanduliferum, 4-loculare; loculi 2 fertiles, 
uniovulati; 2 steriles, ovula plura imperfecta includentes; stylus filiformis, 
glaber, stamina aequans. Fructus calycis segmentis coronatus et bracteolis 
accrescentibus appressis absconditus, cum bracteolis circiter 2 cm diametro. 
Chinae occidentalis, altitudine circiter 2570 m, incola. Leg. E. 
H. Wilson, 3723. | , 
81. Scilla cilicica Siehe, 1. c., p. 194, fig. 81. - : 
The chief value of this new species is due to its excellence as a 
plant for forcing, a property which $, siberica does not possess in the 
same degree. S. cilicica is very suitable for early forcing, developing 
grandly without any check, so that it is possible to have the plant in 
full bloom at Christmastide, with luxuriant leafage, and finer in appear- 
ance that S. siberica. The plant will be put into commerce this year. 
Bulb larger than that of S. siberica, bluishviolet; leaves 10 to 20 cm 
long, of a pleasing green, 1 to 1!/, cm in width at the end, drawn out 
to a blunt point. Middle nerve on the outside elevated. Flower shaft a 
litle taller than the leaves, mostly of the same length. Stalk round, 
laterally somewhat compressed; bracts very small, light violet; pedicels 
half the length of the flowers. Flowers, two to six, of a bright blue 
colour, often having a tinge of violet; of the same size and shape as 
those of S. siberica; filaments white, threadlike, half the length of the 
petals (longer than S. siberica), anthers slatey-blue; capsules round, 6 to 
8 mm in diameter; three to four round seeds are developed. 
| The plant grows in half-shaded districts of Cilicia, in the lower 
mountain regions in humus soils (Siehe). 
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