Scitla.} LILIACEZ (Baker), 491 
campanulate, } in. long; stamens as long as the perianth; filaments 
green. 
Katanarr Recion: Transvaal ; damp, grassy hollows near Barberton, 2000- 
2800 ft., Galpin, 1184! Pr aehge- : 
44.8, laxiflora (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1891, ix. 668); bulb 
globose, 1} in. diam.; leaves 3-4, oblong-lanceolate, pale green, 
mottled with darker green, the largest 3 in. long, under an inch 
broad, not narrowed to the base ; peduncle slender, terete, 3 in. long; 
raceme very lax, oblong, 3 in. long, 1} in. diam.; bracts minute, 
deltoid ; central pedicels patent, pale mauve, 3-3 in. long; perianth 
green, 3 in. long, sharply reflexing when expanded ; filaments bright 
mauve, nearly as long as the segments. 
Sours Arrica: without locality. No specimen at Kew. 
Described from a plant cultivated at Kew in 1891. 
45. 8. socialis (Baker in Saund. Ref. Bot. t. 180); bulbs ovoid, 
gregarious, about 14 in. diam. ; leaves 3~4, spreading, oblong, acute, 
3~4 in. long, an inch broad at the middle, spotted with dark green 
on a pale green ground; peduncle curved, 2-3 in. long; raceme 
dense, oblong, 13-2 in. long, about an inch in diameter; pedicels 
cernuous, 3 in. long ; perianth campanulate, green, 4 in. long; fila- 
ments purple in the upper half; ovary globose, stipitate, discoid 
at the base. Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 251. 
Eastern ReGion : Natal, cultivated specimens, Cooper, 3634! 3635! 
Described from a plant flowered by Mr. Wilson Saunders at Reigate about 1870, 
introduced by Mr. Thos, Cooper. 
46. 8. tricolor (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1880, xiv. 230); bulb 
globose, 2-3 in. diam. ; leaves 6-7; lanceolate, ascending, a foot long, 
2 in. broad at the middle, dark green with a few blotches of lighter 
green on the face, suffused all over the back with claret-brown, 
with a few irregular streaky blotches of green; peduncle curved, 
6~8 in. long, claret-brown throughout; raceme dense, 2-3 in. long, 
13-2 in. diam.; central pedicels patent, {-1 in. long, lower 
cernuous ; perianth oblong-campanulate, {—} in. long, green inside 
and out; filaments bright mauve-purple; ovary stipitate, globose, 
discoid at the base. 
Coast Recron: Port Elizabeth? No specimen at Kew. , 
Described from a plant that flowered at Kew in July, 1880, received from 
Mr, Elwes. ‘ 
47. 8. microsecypha (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1881, xvi. 102); 
bulb ovoid, 4 in. diam.; leaves 6~8, suberect, oblong-lanceolate, 
acute, recurving, above a foot long, 4~4} in. broad at the middle, pale 
glaucous green on both sides, the outer copiously barred transversely 
with purple on the back towards the base, and with green higher up ; 
peduncle a foot long, compressed, green, unspotted ; raceme 5-6 in. 
long, 2 in. diam. ; pedicels }~} in. long ; perianth campanulate, } in. 
