348 CLVI. LILIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Urginea. 
tips, filaments dilated in the middle, style elongate. U. indica, Wight Ic. 
t. 2063 (sepals very incorrect) excl. Syn. Kunth. Melanthium nudum, 
Herb. Heyne in Wall. Herb. (misspelt indicum in Cat. 5062 D). 
Sovrum Deccan, Heyne; sand hills at Tuticorin and Coimbatore, Wight. 
Very near U. coromandeliana, but differing as above. Wight’s figure 1s good, 
except that he has made the sepals acuminate, and anthers too slender, very different 
from his specimens. His character is taken confessedly from Roxburgh’s of Scilla 
indica, from which his figure and specimens differ totally. 
** Leaves and flowers appearing together. 
4, U.congesta, Wight Ic. t. 2064 (left-hand figure) ; leaves appearing 
with the flowers, raceme many and dense-fld., flowers small suberect, 
bracts minute deltoid, perianth segments l-nerved, capsule subglobose. 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 218. 
DECCAN PENINSULA; on the sea coast, Wight. CEYLON; Dambulla, Trimen. 
Bulb about 1 in. diam. Leaves 5-6 in., filiform, grooved above. Scape 6 wi 
flexuous; raceme 2-3 in.; pedicels AA in., suberect. Perianth $ in. long, whit 
and purplish; filaments flattened below broadly subulate, not longer than e 
linear oblong large anthers. Capsule jin. broad; cells 3—4-seeded.— Wight's P 7 
is very incorrect in respect of the perianth and stamens, Trimen's var. rup!co a, 
(Journ. Bot, 1889, 167) differs in the laxer inflorescence. 
5. U. polyphylla, Hook. f.; leaves filiform, flowers suberect, bracts 
longer than the very short pedicels subulate with broad membranows 
auricles ; sepals all thickened at the tips 5-nerved in the middle, Deg 
slender, style elongate. Ornithogalum polyphyllum, Herb. Heyne m Hoi, 
Cat. 5062 F. 
DECCAN PENINSULA? Heyne. than 
Bulb not seen. Leaves 8-10 by A in., margins involute. Scape longer 
the leaves, very slender; raceme terminal, 6-fld.; bracts 4 in., persistent; " " 
3 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse ; filaments nearly as long as the sepals, sty “he 
long.—There is but one specimen in Herb. Wall., without bulb, it resembles 
Cape and European species, and is fastened down with Urginea Wightiana a 
Dipcade serotina. 
20. SCILLA, Linn. 
. istent 
Bulbous, scapigerous herbs. Flowers racemed. Perianth persi 
stellate or campanulate, segments recurved. Capsule globose, lo bose; 
tridymous, loculicidal, cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds obovoid or subgio 
testa thin, black.—Species about 80, Europe, As. temp. 
1. S. indica, Baker in Saund. Refug. Bot. ii. App. 12; im Jou 
Linn. Soc. xii. 250; leaves oblong or lanceolate, raceme very many 
perianth ł in. diam. S. maculata, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Le, 
ouria hyacinthina, Roth Nov. Sp. 195; Kunth Enum. iv. 336; Wu nl. 
t. 2040; Wall. Cat. 5170; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 220; Dalz. & Gibe. L. 
Fl. 951; Bot. Mag. t. 3226; Dene. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. t: 1/1. Ba 
maculata, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 143 ; Dalz. & Gibs. l.c. Daf" 
indica, Wight Ic. t.2041. Melanthium hyacinthoides & Erythronium "" 
dicum, Herb. Madr. 
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