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Seilla.] Littacem (Baker), 485 
as long as the leaves; raceme dense, subglobose, 1-1 in. long and 
broad; central pedicels 12 in. long, lower cernuous; perianth 
campanulate, bright mauve-purple inside and out, + in. long; stamens 
rather shorter than the perianth ; filaments filiform, very dark purple; 
Ovary stipitate, globose. 
Eastern Region: Tembuland; Bazeia Mountain, 3500-4000 ft., Baur, 550 
partly ! 
20. 8. revoluta (Baker in Saund. Ref. Bot. iii. App. 6); bulb 
globose, about 1 in. diam., abundantly stoloniferous ; leaves 6-9, 
spreading, oblong-spathulate, acute, 23-3 in. long, 3% in. broad at 
the middle; peduncle slender, curved, 3-6 in. long; raceme lax, 
oblong, 1~3 in. long, 1-13 in. diam.; central pedicels spreading, 
cernuous at the tip, }-% in, long; perianth campanulate, bright 
mauve-purple inside, green outside, 3+ in. long; stamens nearly as 
long as the perianth ; filaments filiform, purple; ovary globose, 
stipitate, discoid at the base. Hyacinthus revolutus, Linn. fil. Suppl. 
204 ; Thunb. Prodr. 64; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 326; Roem. et 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 585. Phalangium revolutum, Pers. Syn. i. 
367. Xeodolon revolutum, Salish. Gen. 18. Drimia(?) revoluta, 
Kunth, Enum. iv, 341. D. lanceefolia B, Gawl. in Bot. Mag. 
t. 1380. D. lanceefolia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 278. D. Gawleri and 
ovalifolia, Schrad. Blumenb. 30; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 
595-6 ; Kunth, Enum. iv. 339. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, interior region, Thunberg. 
Coast Reeion: Caledon Diy. ; on Donker Hoek Mountain, Burchell, 7982! 
21. S. humifusa (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1881, xv. 626); bulb ovoid, 
11-12 in. diam. ; leaves 2, spreading on the surface of the ground, 
sessile, cordate-oblong, obtuse, 8—4 in. long, more than half as broad, 
pale green, with a few blotches of darker green ; peduncle erect, 
3-4 in. long, purple at the base; raceme lax, oblong-eylindrical, 
3-4 in, long; pedicels all very short, the lower cernuous ; 
obsolete; perianth eampanulate, purplish-green, ¢ in. long ; stamens 
nearly as long as the perianth ; ovary sessile, oblong. 
EAstEgN REGION: Natal. No specimen at Kew. 
Described from a plant flowered by Mr. W. Bull, May, 1881. 
22, S. Macowani (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1875, iii. 748); bulb 
globose, about 1 in, diam ; leaves 3-4, linear, erect, 3-6 in. long, 7 in. 
broad, channelled down the face, mottled with purple on the back in 
the lower half; peduncle very slender, 2-4 in. long ; — 
moderately dense, oblong, finally 2-3 in. long, 3—-§ in. diam. ; cen 
pedicels 32 in. long, lower cernuous at the tip; perianth gig 
late, } in. long, green, more or less tinged with bright oe ; 
filaments nearly as long as the perianth, bright purple ; ovary globose, 
stipitate. 
Cznrrat Rearon: Somerset Div. ; on the Bosch Berg, 4000 ft., MacOwan, 
