O24 CXL, LILIACEX (BAKER). [ Pseudogaltonia. 
3-celled ; ovules many in a cell, superposed; style subulate ; stigma 
minute, capitate. Fruit and seeds unknown.—JLindneria, Dur. et 
Lubb. 
Monotypic. Endemic, 
1. P, Pechuelii, Kuntze in Jahrb. Kinigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, iv. 274. 
Bulb globose, 6-10 in. diam., crowned with copious fibrous relics of old 
leaves. Leaves 6-8, sessile, lanceolate, subcoriaceous, suberect, glabrous, 
1-1} ft. long, 14-2 in. broad low down, Peduncle terete, stiffly erect, 
longer than the leaves. Raceme dense, 100-flowered, 8-10 in. long; 
pedicels 14-2 in. long, upper cernuous, lower ascending ; bracts lanceo- 
late, acuminate, half as long as the pedicels. Perianth greenish-white, 
13-1} in. long; segments half as long as the tube. Anthers nearly as 
long as the filaments. Style not exserted—Lindneria fibrillosa, Dur. et 
Lubb. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xxxvi. ccxvii. t. 18; Baker in Gard. 
Chron. 1890, viii. 240. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland, Pechuel-Loische. 
Imported alive from Damaraland in 1886 by Mr. Lindner, and flowered at the 
Brussels Botanic Garden in 1888. 
No specimen at Kew. 
20. HYACINTHUS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Plant. iii, 812. 
Perianth gamophyllous; tube campanulate or oblong; segments 
subequal, spreading upwards, Stamens 6, inserted in the tube, shorter 
than the perianth; filaments filiform or flattened at the base; anthers 
versatile. Ovary sessile, ovoid, 3-celled; ovules few, superposed ` style 
subulate; stigma small, capitate. Capsule loculicidally 3-valved, not 
deeply lobed. Seeds subglobose; testa black ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 
cylindrical. Rooitstock a tunicated bulb. Leaves contemporary with 
the flowers, generally sessile, linear or lorate. Inflorescence racemose ; 
bracts scariose, persistent. 
Species 30, mostly Mediterranean and Oriental, 1 Madagascar, 2 in South Africa. 
1. H. ledebourioides, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 427. 
Bulb small, ovoid or subglobose, 4—1 in. diam.; outer tunics pale, mem- 
branous. Leaves 3—6, oblong or linear-oblong, glabrous, 1-14 in. long, 
narrowed into a distinct petiole. Peduncle very slender, 2-3 in. long. 
Raceme dense or moderately dense, 1—2 in. long ; pedicels short ascend- 
ing, articulated at the apex; bracts minute, deltoid. Perianth cylin- 
drical, 4 in. long; tube subcylindrical ; segments linear-oblong, white, 
with a slender l-nerved brown keel, twice as long as the _tube. 
Anthers subsessile, biseriate, inserted above the middle of the perianth- 
tube. Capsule depresso-globose, emarginate, 4 in. diam. Seeds 
solitary. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi ; Sena, Kirk 7 
Shupanga, in dry places on the tertiary hills, Kirk! British Central Africa : Nyasa- 
