Tas. 6276. 
DRIMIOPSIS Krext. : 
Native of Zanzibar. 
Nat. Ord. Liztackm.—Tribe ScrtEx. 
Genus Drimiopsis, Lindl, (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe., vol. xiii. p. 226). 
Drimiorsis Kirkii, bulbo globoso tunicis membranaceis albidis truncatis, foliis 
6-8 lanceolatis subpedalibus pallide viridibus maculis copiosis saturatioribus 
decoratis acutis ad basin vix petiolatum longe angustatis, scapo subpedali, 
racemo angusto 3—4-pollicari floribus numerosis supremis abortivis, pedicellis 
patulis brevissimis, bracteis abortivis, perianthii segmentis oblongis apice 
leviter cucullatis interioribus diu conniventibus, filamentis omnibus lanceola- 
tis conformibus, stylo ovario xquilongo. 
D. Kirkii, Baker in Gard. Chron., 1874, part 2, p. 644, 
In 1871 Dr. Kirk sent to Kew from Zanzibar bulbs of two 
species of this curious and little-known genus. One of them 
_ proved to be D. dotryoides, which I described in the Linnean 
Proceedings from a couple of poor specimens, without any 
locality, in the collection of the late Judge Blackburn, of 
Mauritius, and the other, the present plant. All the known 
species of the genus resemble one another very closely in 
habit and flower; but there are two types of leaf, one with a 
distinct petiole and an oblong blade, after the fashion of a 
_ Lucharis or a Griffinia, a type of form very rare in Liliacem, 
and the other with the blade narrowed gradually from the 
middle to both ends and not furnished with any distinct 
petiole. This is the first species of the latter group that has 
been brought into cultivation. It flowered at Kew first in 
— July, 1873. 
___ Duscr. Bulb globose, one and a half inch in diameter, with 
_ thin whitish truncate tunics. eaves six to eight, cotempo- 
tary with the flowers, lanceolate, a foot long, one to one 
and a half inch broad above the middle, acute, narrowed 
gradually to the base, not distinctly petioled, very fleshy in 
texture, glabrous, pale green on the upper surface with 
large irregular blotches of dark green, still paler green beneath. 
