542 CXL, LILIACEH (BAKER). | Urginea. 
20. U. nigritana, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 224. Bulb 
moderately large ; outer tunics copiously fibrous at the apex. Leaves 
linear, glabrous, channelled down the face, 1-1} ft. long. Peduncle 
stiffly erect, 15-2 ft. long. Raceme lax, finally 1-14 ft. long; upper 
pedicels short ; lower finally 1-14 in. long ; bracts lanceolate, acuminate ; 
lower 3-3? in. long. Perianth }—-? in. long; segments linear-oblong, 
whitish, with a broad laxly 5-nerved red-brown keel. Stamens shorter 
than the perianth; anthers oblong, 5}, in. long; filaments linear. Style 
reaching to the tips of the perianth. Capsule ovoid, shallowly lobed, 
4—3 in. long. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Falaba, on bare open spots, Scott-Elliot, 5171! 
and on the laterite plateau on the way to Sulimania, Scott-Elliot, 5289 ! interior of 
Western Lagos, Rowland! Niger Territory: Nupe ; common in open places, between 
Ijayo and Ilorin, Barter, 3335! and at Jeba, on the River Niger, Barter ! 
. Nile Land. British East Africa: Mittu; Dimido (Dimindu), Schweinfurth, 
2796! Niamniam, at the River Boddo, Schweinfurth, ser. iii. 168! Uganda; 
Kampala, Scott-Elliot, 7337 ! 
21. U. acinacifolia, Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb. 
xxxi. 220. Bulb medium-sized, globose. Leaves 5—6, contemporary with 
the flowers, linear, glabrous, very acuminate, 14-2 ft. long. Peduncle 
stiffly erect, 3 ft. long. Raceme lax, 1 ft. long; pedicels short, ascend- 
ing; bracts linear-subulate, 3-1 in. long. Perianth 1 in. long ; segments 
linear-oblong, whitish, with a broad laxly 5-nerved red-brown keel. 
Stamens rather shorter than the perianth; anthers oblong, ;1, in. long; 
filaments linear. Style subulate, 4 in. long. Capsule ovoid, 1 in. long, 
not deeply lobed. 
Lower Guinea. (German South-west Africa: Amboland ; at Oshando, Schinz, 
24! 
Imperfectly known species. 
22. U. quartiniana, Solms in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Æthiop. 294. 
Bulb small, ovoid. Leaves linear, glabrous. Peduncle 6-8 in. long, 
slender. Raceme lax, 3-6-flowered ; pedicels short ; bracts linear, twice 
as long as the pedicels. Perianth }-} in. long; segments oblong, 
cucullate at the apex, with very thin margins and a stouter middle. 
Filaments nearly as long as the perianth.—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
xiii. 223. Scilla quartiniana, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 329. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Shire, Quartin-Dillon. 
No specimen at Kew. 
25. DRIMIOPSIS, Lindl. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 813. 
Perianth campanulate; segments subequal, ovate or oblong, without 
any distinct dorsal rib, cucullate at the apex, connate only at the very 
base. Stamens 6,shorter than the perianth, attached to the base of the 
segments ; filaments very short, dilated ; anthers ovoid, versatile. Ovary 
sessile, globose, 3-celled; ovules 2 in a cell, collateral; style short, 
subulate; stigma minute, capitate. Capsule globose, loculicidally 3-valved. 
