472 LILIACEZ (Baker). [Hyacinthus. 
XXXVI. HYACINTHUS, Linn. 
Perianth gamophyllous, marcescent, finally deciduous; tube cam- 
panulate or oblong; segments subequal, falcate, as long as or longer 
than the tube. Stamens 6, inserted at or below the throat of 
the perianth-tube; filaments filiform; anthers versatile, dehiscing 
introrsely. Ovary ovoid, sessile; ovules few in a cell, super- 
posed ; style cylindrical; stigma capitate. Capsule membranous, 
loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds globose; testa thin, black; embryo 
cylindrical, much shorter than the horny albumen. 
Rootstock a bulb with membranous tunics; leaves all radical, fleshy, linear or 
lorate ; inflorescence racemose; bracts small, membranous, 
DrsteiB. Species about 30, nearly all plants of the Oriental and Mediterranean 
regions. One Tropical African. 
Inflorescence corymbose ... =... ue vss wwe Ses (1) Corymbosus. 
Inflorescence an elongated racem Ge SPH soos, EP ae 
1. H. corymbosus (Linn. Mant. 223); bulb ovoid, } in. diam.; 
neck 3-1 in. long, sheathed bya loose, truncate, membranous tunic ; 
leaves 3-6, linear, channelled down the face, finally 4-5 in. long; 
peduncle 1-2 in. long ; flowers 4-8, corymbose ; lower pedicels erecto- 
patent, finally 1-3 in. long; bracts minute, ovate ; perianth red-lilac, 
2~§ in. long; tube campanulate; segments oblanceolate-oblong, two 
or three times as long as the tube; stamens distinctly biseriate; 
upper inserted at the throat of the tube, nearly as long as the 
segments ; capsule small, globose. Zhunb. Prodr. 64; Fl. Cap. 
edit. Schult. 325; Jacq. Collect. iii. 230, t. 19, fig. 2; Andr. Bot. 
Rep. v. t. 345; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 426. Massonia 
corymbosa, Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 991. M. linearis, E. Meyer in 
Drege Doeum. 119, name only. Scilla corymbosa, Gawl. in Bot. 
Mag. sub t, 1468. Peribea corymbosa, Kunth, Enum. iv. 293. — 
Coasr Rector: Cape Div.; sandy places between Lion Mountain and the 
sea shore, Thunberg! near the Lighthouse, Ecklon, 111! Cape Flats, Zeyher, 
1715! Camps Bay, 200 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb, Norm. Aust. Afr., 943! 
Tulbagh Div. ; Roodesand, near Tulbagh, Drége ! 
2. H. Gawleri (Baker); bulb globose ; rudimentary leaf oblong; _ 
produced leaves 4-5, linear, arcuate, 3-4 in. long, channelled down — 
the face ; peduncle shorter or longer than the leaves; flowers 6-8 
in a lax raceme, the lowest cernuous; lower pedicels ; in. long; 
bracts minute or obsolete ; perianth reddish-lilac, } in. long ; tube very 
short ; segments oblanceolate-oblong ; stamens subuniseriate, a little 
shorter than the perianth-segments. Scilla brevifolia, Gawl. in Bot. — 
Mag. t. 1468, excl. syn. Thunb. 8. brachyphylla, Roem. et Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. vii. 573, Peribea Gawleri, Kunth, Enum. iv. 2938. 
SourH Arrioa: without locality, 
Known to me only from the Bot. Mag. figure, which was drawn from @ 
t at Messrs. Lee & Kennedy’s in June, 1812. Scilla brevifolia, Thunb, 
Dipeadi hyacinthoides, 
