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41.'''' SciLLA (Ledebouria) spicata, Baker, n. sp. Bulb ovoid, 

 an iucli in diameter; tunics brown, membranous. Leaves 2, 

 cotemporary with the flowers, erect, lanceolate, acute, 2-5 in. long, 

 i in. broad below the middle. Scape 4-6 in. long. Flowers in a 

 dense spike 1-2 in. long, i-i m. in diameter ; rachis thickened, 

 rugose ; bracts and pedicels obsolete. Perianth campanulate, 

 bright purple, a line long. Stamens rather shorter than the 

 perianth- segments ; anthers subglobose, bright yellow. 



Central Africa, in the kingdom of Djur, Schweinfurth, 1641 ! 

 1652! 



1.* Urginea rigidifolia, Bakery n. s]d. Bulb not seen. Leaves 

 several, produced at a different time to the flowers, terete, rigid, 

 glabrous, ^ foot long. Scape slender, rigid, fragile, a foot long. 

 Raceme lax, 5-6 in. long, li-l^ in. in diameter; pedicels slender, 

 rigid, patent or ascending, cernuous at the tip, the lowest 

 ^-| in. long. Perianth campanulate, ^ in. long, the segments 

 oblong, white, with a brown-purple keel. Stamens a little shorter 

 than the perianth -segments, the oblong anthers equalling in length 

 the flattened filaments. Ovary ampullaeform, narrowed into a 

 short style. 



Cape Colony, on the Karroo, near Graaf Reinet, Bolus, 783 ! 

 Near U. physodes in flowers and inflorescence ; very different 

 in leaf. 



16.* Fritillaria obliqua, Ker, in Bot. Mag., t. 857. Stem 

 a foot or more long. Cauline leaves 10-12, lanceolate, ascending, 

 glaucous -green, twisted, 4-5 in. long, ^-f in. broad at the middle, 

 the lowest subverticillate. Flowers 5-6 in a lax raceme ; pedicels 

 erecto-patent, the lower 2-3 in. long ; bracts and bracteoles linear. 

 Perianth an inch long, between funnel-shaped and campanulate, 

 cernuous, dark purple, untessellated, glaucous externally; outer 

 segments oblanceolate-oblong, f in. broad ; inner segments oblong, 

 •^t in. broad; foveole obscure, linear, greenish, produced ^ in. 

 from the insertion of the filament. Stamens f in. long ; anther 

 as long as the filament. Ovary oblong, green ; style reaching to 

 the tip of the perianth- segments, tripartite in the upper quarter. 



This is an old garden plant, supposed to be lost, which is men- 

 tioned under F. tiiUpifolia in my monograph. Mr. Elwes has been 

 successful in hunting it out, and I am indebted to him for living 

 specimens, which show it to be a good species. Its origin has still 

 to be ascertamed. 



20.''' Fritillaria PiHODocanakis, Orphan, in Atti Intern. Cong. 

 Firenz., 1874, p. 214 (name only). Bulb globose, ^ in. in diameter. 

 Stem 1-flowered, 4-5 in. long. Leaves 4-5, all scattered, the 

 lowest lanceolate, 2-3 in. long, 4-6 lines broad at the middle, the 

 upper linear. Perianth campanulate, cernuous, ^-f in. long, lurid 

 pm-ple in the lower part, yellowish-green upwards, untessellated, 

 the outer segments oblong, the inner obovate, both ^ in. broad, 

 obscurely foveolate. Stamens half as long as the perianth ; 

 filaments ^ in. long ; anthers oblong. Style ^ in. long, trifid in 

 the upper half. 



