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(3-5, or perhaps more) of pale lilac flowers, collected into a 
loosely arranged raceme, without any of the compactness of 
Sc. italica, than which its flowers are twice as small. The 
bracts are as long as the pedicels when the flowers first open, 
but they soon become shorter by the lengthening of the 
pedicels. The filaments are linear and almost sterile. 
Apparently quite a hardy bulb. 
54. SCILLA pumila. 
Brotero Fl. Lus. 1. 527. 
This has also been received with the two last from 
Dr. Welwitsch under the name of Sc. monophylla. It is a 
pretty littie one-leaved plant, with almost the aspect of a 
very small Lily of the Valley before it flowers. It bears from 
3 to 5 small blue flowers in each raceme, with subulate 
stamens and yellow pollen. 
55. FRITILLARIA lusitanica. 
Wikstrom in act. acad. holm. 1891. 9. p. 9. t. 5. f. 1. 
This is a curious little hardy bulb, with a stem about six 
inches high, and flowers intermediate in appearance between 
F. lutea and Meleagris. The radical leaves are lanceolate, 
bright green and taper-stalked ; those of the stem lanceolate, 
glaucous and sessile; the flowers are pale dirty reddish yellow 
inside, and coppery brown externally. It is a very distinet 
little plant. 
56. CARAGÄNA triflora. 
C. triffora; petiolis spinescentibus, foliolis 4-5-jugis ovalibus obtusis apicu- 
latis viridibus sericeis, pedunculis trifloris foliis brevioribus, floribus 
pedicellatis, calycibus glabris basi bibracteatis. 
This shrub is probably one of the Tartaric Furzes of 
travellers. It was raised in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society, from seed communicated by the East India Com- 
pany, under the name of C. Gerardiana. It is not, however, 
that species which has solitary flowers and shaggy calyxes, 
but a species hitherto undescribed, with greenish yellow 
flowers growing in threes. It is probably quite hardy. 
