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two of the lobes abort; the fertilé lobes dehisce on the side 
turned towards the style and expose the large brown crested 
seed 24 lines long by 11 broad. 
Approaches Scilla lilacina, Baker, from Nubia, but is easily 
distinguished by its broader papery leaves passing more suddenly 
into a narrower petiole, its less dense raceme, and larger flowers. 
Scruua (§ LeDEBOURIA) TEXTILIS, sp. nov. Glabra; bulbo inter 
majores ovoideo, squamis firmis valde fibrosis; foliis firmis crassi- 
usculis rubro-viridibus obovatis apice rigido acuminatis, basi sub- 
membranacea vaginante breviter angustatis, margine cuticulata 
undulatis, dorso a venis crebris parallelis lineatis ; scapo flexuoso 
cum racemo cylindrico folia superante ; bracteis minutis scariosis 
flaccidis lineari-subulatis ; pedicellis patentibus inferioribus cer- 
nuis, medio articulatis ; floribus breviter campanulatis viridulis ; 
segmentis a basi latiore ligulatis, apice obtusis vix cucullatis, uni- 
vittatis ; staminibus perianthio brevioribus, filamentis lilacino- 
purpureis, subcompressis, antheris parvis oblongis; ovario bre- 
viter stipitato, lobis 6 in disco prominulente superpositis ; capsule 
membranacee, loculis tribus cum semine solitario rotunde ovoideo 
nigro-bruneis. 
Hab. Uyui: W. E. Taylor, Jan. 1887. 
A plant 9 inches in height, the bulb 13 inch in diameter, with 
firm, rather thick, strongly-nerved scales, from which when 
cut or torn the nerves project as stringy fibres. The five or six 
leaves are broadly ovate above the narrower sheathed and sheath- 
ing base and pass suddenly above into the long narrow acumi- 
nate apex (broken in specimen); they are 3-3} inches long and 
1 inch broad in the middle, and have a minutely broken and 
wavy cuticularized margin and a large number of fine close-set 
parallel nerves. In colour they are green tinged with red. The 
single scape is flexuose below, including the raceme 7 inches 
in length; the fertile portion of the raceme is 2} inches by 
scarcely 1 in diameter. There are between 40 and 50 pedicels 
about + inch in length and generally jointed somewhere near the 
middle ; the upper ones are spreading, the lower cernuous. The 
narrow greenish perianth-segments are 23-2) lines long and 
4-2 line broad, with a central darker green nerve; the lilac- 
purple filaments are 14 line long, the small yellow versatile 
anther 1 line. The ovary is shortly stalked, with a slightly pro- 
jecting basal disk bearing the upper portion, in which there are 
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