482 Litiaczz (Baker). [ Scilla. 
moderately dense, 3-4 in. long, 1-1} in. diam.; pedicels erecto- 
patent, articulated at the tip, }-} in. long; bracts linear, 4 Im. 
long; perianth campanulate, bright blue, 3 in. long; segments 
oblong; filaments shorter than the perianth-segments, deltoid at the 
base; ovary subsessile, globose ; ovules few, superposed. 
Eastrzn Rucion: Pondoland, Bachmann, 286! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 857! 
Noodsberg, Wood, 928! stony hill near York, 3000-4000 ft., Wood, 4304! and 
without precise locality, Gerrard, 740! Krauss, 444! 
6. 8. natalensis (Planch. in Flore des Serres, t. 1043) ; bulb ovoid, 
3-4 in. diam., not bristly at the neck; leaves 6-8, lorate-lanceolate, 
glabrous or pubescent, 1-13 ft. long, 3-4 in. broad at the middle, 
narrowed gradually to the base; peduncle stout, stiffly erect, 1-14 ft. 
long; raceme dense, }~1 ft. long, 2-3 in. diam. ; pedicels articulated 
at the apex, lower 1-14 in long; bracts linear, 3-4 in. long; 
perianth bright blue, 3-2 in. long; segments oblong-lanceolate ; 
filaments linear, shorter than the perianth; ovary globose, shortly 
stipitate ; ovules 10-12 in a cell; style as long as the ovary. Bot. 
Mag. t. 5379; Baker in Journ, Linn, Soc. xiii. 243. 
Vaz. f, sordida (Baker, loc, cit.) ; smaller, with leaves tinged with brown, and 
fewer, smaller flowers, 
Karanart Reeion: Orange Free State, Cooper, 3278! Transvaal; Saddle- 
back Range, near Barberton, 2800-4000 ft., Galpin, 619 ! 
Eastern ReGion: Tembuland; mountain-sides near Bazeia, 2300-3000 ft. 
Baur, 4151 Natal, MeKen! Mrs, K. Saunders! Var. B, Natal, cultivated 
specimen 
Var. 8 is described from a plant that flowered at Kew in 1864. The little 
known 8. plumbea, Lindl, in Bot, Reg. t. 1355, described from a drawing made 
by Sydenham Edwards in Kew Gardens in 1813, is probably a form of this 
species, and may be the same as var. sordida. 
7. 8. Adlami (Baker in Gard. Chron, 1891, ix. 521); bulb 
ovoid, $ in. diam.; leaf single, contemporary with the flowers, 
linear, rather fleshy, glabrous, 8-9 in. long, 3 in. broad above the 
middle, narrowed gradually to the base ; peduncle slender, 3-4 in. 
long ; raceme short ; pedicels 3} in. long; bracts deltoid, minute ; 
perianth mauve-purple, 3 in. long; segments oblong, spreading from 
- the base; stamens shorter than the perianth ; filaments flattened ; 
anthers minute ; ovary green, globose ; style short. 
—e REGion : Natal, cultivated specimen, 4dlam / ae 
t by Mr. J. W. . J. A. near Norwich, 
Sith whan Aesieed do, Oot ee 
8. 8. lachenalioides (Baker); bulb globose, 1 in. diam. ; leaves 2, 
subbasal, ascending, oblong, acute, sessile, 3-4 in. long, 1-14 2 
broad ; peduncle 3-4 in. long ; raceme dense, oblong, 1-1} in. long; 
pedicels very short ; bracts minnte ; perianth oblong, bright mauve- 
purple, $-} in. long ; segments linear-oblong, with a greenish keel 
and minutely cucullate tip; stamens more than half as long 28 the 
periatith; anthers small, oblong ; style as long as the ovary. 
Eastgzen Reoion : Transkei, Hal : ia Mountain, 2500- 
3500 ft., 549! ‘allack! Tembuland ; Bazeia 9 
ualand i Ol 
4000f. Toone, e781 Griq East; Malowe Mountain, near 
