Tap. 7565. 
DRIMIA Corsa. 
Native of Somali-land,. 
Nat. Ord. Lit1acex.—Tribe Scitiza. 
Genus Drimra, Jacg.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 808.) 
Daria Colex ; bulbo magno globoso, tunicis membranaceis brunneis, foliis 
synanthiis sessilibus oblongis acutis subcarnosis glabris facie pallide 
viridibus maculis saturatioribus decoratis dorso concoloribus pallide viri- 
dibus, pedunculo foliis breviori, racemo cylindrico laxo, pedicellis 
brevibus, bracteis minutis, perianthio viridi, tubo brevi campanulato, 
lobis linearibus recurvatis, staminibus perianthio brevioribus, antheris 
parvis oblongis, filamentis saturate purpureis, ovario disciformi, stylo 
elongato. 
This very distinct new species of Drimia was brought 
home from the Golis range in Somali-land two years ago 
by Miss Edith Cole, and flowered by her last October. 
The expedition on which it was obtained was made in the 
winter and spring of 1894-5, under the leadership of Mr. E. 
Lort-Phillips. The two ladies who took part in it, Mrs. E. 
Lort-Phillips and Miss Cole, both occupied their leisure in 
making botanical collections, and on their return presented 
them to Kew, where they were worked out. The two col- 
lections contained together 350 species, of which between 
sixty and seventy proved to benew. ‘These were described 
in the Kew Bulletin for 1895, pages 211 to 230. There 
are no specimens of the present plant in the dried collection. 
_ Six other species of the same genus are known in Tropical 
Africa, and between twenty and thirty at the Cape, but 
many of the plants called Drimia in gardens really belong 
to the section Ledebouria of the genus Scilla. 
Descr.— Bulb globose, two inches in diameter; outer 
tunics membranous, brown. Leaves contemporary with 
the flowers, sessile, oblong, acute, half a foot long, by 
nearly half as broad, rather fleshy, pale, glaucous green on 
the upper surface, spotted with darker green, concolorous, 
and pale green beneath. Pedunele erect, shorter than the 
leaves, pale green, spotted with claret-brown. Raceme 
NoveMBER Ist, 1897. 
